(snip) " They have *decided* to "feed" the negative emotions > (anger all the time) or the destructive behavior (not > meditating). What makes the choice so obvious *as* a > choice is the utter *simplicity* of the alternative > they are rejecting so angrily (just shift your focus > to something other than anger, or just prioritize > meditation more highly than the other activities you > have become addicted to). If the alternative being > presented to them was *hard*, or painful, you might > understand their resistance. But it isn't."
Sometimes people do get addicted to their pain, or become identified with it, as 'victim' or as Eckart Tolle calls it: 'the poor little me' part of the egoic self... And there seems to always be a payback for certain avoidance behaviors, or habits that seem to bring pain. We get used to being in discomfort, it would seem. The only way to release something that has become so intimate with one's behavior, is to really make a conscious attempt to view it, as seperate from self, ie: witnessing. When the self is identified as being angry all the time, or anything all the time, it's lost perspective. Old habits die hard; patterns of lifetime(s). Just how fast we can dissolve all the illusions, of ourselves, and others? Who knows? R.G.
