Overcoming addiction

How can you determine if you have any dependency? There is a very simple way to test this. If you stop doing something for one week, what you usually do and this will cause a passionate desire to satisfy this need, then you are addicted. This can be accompanied by apathy and frustration. This simple test will help you isolate all your dependencies and understand the scope of the problem.

Fear of emptiness
This is the very reason why a lot of people become addicted to many things. People are afraid to remain alone with themselves and do nothing, do not think about anything. Another simple test: if you are alone in a room, try not to do anything for ten minutes. Quite possibly you will feel the fear of emptiness, the fear that you are not doing anything.

Accept your emptiness
This first step will help to understand the problem. Do not try to convince yourself that you are happy when making a purchase in a store, but admit that in this way you are trying to get away from your problems

Meditate
In fact, this is the same as that written in the second paragraph. But there is a significant difference: when meditating, you accept any of your thoughts and just watch them, do not condemn them. Meditation teaches awareness and is a great way to pay attention to everything that you do. It leads away from automatism and makes you realize what you are doing at a particular moment and why.