Here are three words that affect us all in life’s ups and downs, one word I feel leads to another and not one can be separated from the other.
Attraction is what brought us into this world right from your parents who first met to your very conception and has continued throuought your entire life. Attraction is the first thought that we sub- consciously have when we look at something or someone and if our conscious mind reacts to that attraction then we move forward with another thought of either I must have or want etc . The mind is ever fleeting like a butterfly going from one flower to another and never resting. I feel Attraction has a lot to answer for in the world where it relates to relationship.
Relationship is the most important word I feel in the world because we have a relationship with many things in the world, the trouble is the senses have been over stimulated and with that attraction has led to a lot of vices we see in society through greed, lust, ego, anger etc. In other terms the senses have gradually gone out of our control and have led us to a lot of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with ourselves and our lives.
One picture I would like to paint here is of a Chariot with many horses pulling it and the horses are out of control like wild beasts, these are our senses.
We have all had the compulsion to do many things with these wild horses in our lives and they have more than likely got us into trouble either personally or involved with others.
The answer here I feel is to be in control of these wild horses by the art of stilling the mind through meditation and contemplation , if we can control our sometimes wild thoughts then our lives can be more beneficial to us and all those we come into contact with.

Attachment comes when first we have become attracted to something and then we cant let it go because it has given us pleasure through the senses, but when that object/person and even thought disappears what tends to happen if we are not prepared causes much sorrow and anguish. I feel the ideal way to treat this problem is to say to myself nothing stays the same forever, change is inevitable and eventually I have to let go and move on with my life.
Attachment is like a child clinging to its mother/father and not wanting to let go because I fear I will not be loved and life will not be the same, this I feel is all part of learning lessons in life about how we can detach but also be loving without that clinging feeling of not wanting to let go.
Letting go can be a painful process and may take some time to come to terms with different issues but if I keep working at it I can overcome anything with the power of self belief.

Addiction is the follow on from the Attachment and if I let whatever I am clinging to get to this stage then the harder the journey to be free of that addiction will be. Addiction is a word that many people in the world are suffering from and it is much in our newspapers, maybe it is from drugs, alcohol, sex or food it is still a major problem in our society. There are many ways that we can help ourselves and others through this sometimes dark period because the power again of our thinking becomes a powerful tool. There is one saying that I really like and that is “If I keep on doing what I have always done I will always get what I have always got” I find this a most powerful metaphor to use in my own life that when I find myself doing something I don’t like or acting out of character I try to remind myself of these words. Actually until I realise I am addicted I will not be able to extricate myself from that situation, because as we think habitually then we will automatically act habitually.
One very important thing here is we have to realise that “I myself” have the power to control my own thinking and therefore my own actions and through the power of my own thinking to put my life into shape again and to stop that which is hurting me and others.

It all starts with my thinking, “as I think so shall I become”.

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Hi Paul,

Not sure what this is but if oyu're uploading work to this site then you need to place it in the archive and not in discussion threads.

Geoff