Quotes on Addiction (including Alcohol, Drugs & other things)

[spiritualcookie]

On Addiction to Smoking

We watched millions of people smoking and not receiving detrimental results from smoking because they were not aware of any detrimental results coming from smoking.

And once the emphasis was put upon the detrimental results of that,
the percentage of people that are having negative response to that action has risen dramatically.

Not because the cigarette is the cause but because the thought about it has caused disharmony,
And the guilt and discomfort associated with the action that they cannot stop or
- or think they can't -
causes an imbalance in their alignment.

And that's why we keep saying to you here today that there are no truths that are always true.
And there are no truths that are always true and always good for everyone involved.

- Abraham
from the youtube clip: This Is The Truth Of Today! Abraham Hicks 2024

[spiritualcookie]

Rather than saying
"I am a recovering alcoholic"
we would say: "I am a former alcoholic".
And then we would say,
"I have a distant memory of that time having been an alcoholic."

But we would quickly shift out emphasis to:
"I am an incomplete being,
always in the mode of expansion,
so I'm going to be eternally recovering from something",
because that takes the sting out of anywhere you've been.

- Abraham, 2017

[spiritualcookie]

[Hotseater asks about whether it's ok that she loves to use drugs to raise her vibration]

Abraham:
There are all kinds of ways to reduce resistance.
And participating in something that really reduces your focus and reduces your attention to anything, you could say it's a bit like meditation in that it quiets your mind and in the absence of resistance allows your vibration to rise.

The difference between that and meditation, which is always available to you and cost less and is not illegal - but the biggest advantage of it is that when you release resistance because you've decided that you want to through focus and then find alignment -
what we've been talking about all day here today is about focusing.
And we're talking about focusing emotion, which is about focusing thought...

And what you're talking about [that happens in some drug-use], is defocusing.

And while it might seem like it's accomplishing the same thing initially, it really isn't.

HS: So can I ask then about that - so
It seems like the focusing and the creating...

Abraham: Well you're right about that because what you're wanting to say to us is that there's a step one which is the asking and then there's a step two which is Source answering, and then there's a step three which is you just chilling and allowing what you've asked for to come about.

And so are you asking isn't this an effective step three experience?

It would be, except that in your detached State there's a connection missing in that.

HS: So I I think what I was going to say was maybe they're excuses.
Maybe I'm coming up with...

Abraham: It's all right it's all right to find what feels like a path of least resistance.
We are not discouraging anything that gives you the sensation of well-being in the way that you described it.

But we are not acknowledging that it is the same path to Enlightenment and alignment and deliberate creation and focusing that we've been talking about here.

(...)

When you emotionally find a feeling and you recognize it and you reach for it and you do it on purpose and you show yourself that you can
and the result of it is a connection with source that gives you Clarity
which then results in manifestations that you can connect the dots on

that is something that is known to you now it is manageable and sustainable and applicable in all kinds of situations

But when something that you have ingested or imbibed in some way is the reason for the changing then there's no momentum that ever gathers from that which means it is required to feel that way to keep participating in the same thing

and that's where the addiction comes in.

HS: that's not sustainable.


- Abraham, from the youtube clip: Abraham Hicks 2025 new - Substance to raise vibration Law of attraction