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Habits, Cravings, Addictions and the Subconscient · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  One of the big issues that all people face is dealing with
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  Cravings habits and addictions, and their effects in their
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  lives. The mechanism at work here is
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  not based on conscious decision making, but on impulses feelings
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  and pulls that occur, subconsciously, whether in the
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  mind, the vital being where the body, certain habits May begin
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  with a mental or vital acceptance.
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  Particularly as a result of peer pressure or tradition.
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  Thus many begin to utilize tobacco or alcohol or other
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  recreational drugs, as a result of the pressure from outside,
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  Once the acceptance, is there the physical effects of the
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  Habit? Begin to be felt in the
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  beginning. Many of these are experienced as
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  extremely positive experiences euphoric or soporific.
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  We're bringing with them feelings of warmth and lower
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  inhibitions reduction of feelings of social awkwardness.
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  These experiences also work on the physical cells of the body,
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  and stir, the release of certain hormones, that are associated
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  with pleasure and good feelings. When the immediate stimulus
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  wears off, one feels a lack of stemming, from the reduction of
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  the flow of the hormones in the system.
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  And at later stages, when addiction arises, there are
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  physical symptoms of ill, feeling that arise, There can be
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  headaches. Nausea, uncontrolled, nervous,
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  impulses, and feelings of depression.
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  The body has accepted subconsciously.
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  The need for the Habit, it should be noted that not all
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  habits or addictions are related to taking a physical drug or
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  substance. These can also arise through
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  vital movements or even mental addiction when the mind gets a
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  thrill or satisfaction from certain actions, when intense
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  and addiction can rack the body in nerve pain to such a degree
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  that the individual feels like he is burning up or otherwise
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  experiencing extreme bodily discomfort bordering on physical
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  torture, In those instances, the individual will do just about
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  anything to satisfy the addiction.
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  The needs so created are not real needs in as much as they
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  are created through actions that are extraneous to basic physical
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  vital or mental needs of life. However, they are created,
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  however, eventually the individual must either take
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  steps to break the habit or addiction or suffer.
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  An ever-deepening spiral of pain, pressure and systematic,
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  destruction of the body, the Life Energy, and the mental
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  power. Ours, as the addiction gets out
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  of hand and takes over one's life.
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  The first step is to find the will to overcome the habit or
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  addiction, some are easier to break than others.
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  Caffeine addiction is for instance, extremely common.
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  In our society, with the accepted social intake of tea or
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  coffee, it is relatively easy to Marshal the will to overcome
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  caffeine addiction with some physical side effects for a few
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  days or a week. Much more difficult would be
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  addiction to opioids, which require the individual to
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  undertake a program. In most cases with very heavy
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  assistance, to break the habit and fight through the withdrawal
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  suffering. Alcohol.
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  Addiction is one that falls in between as the mood one.
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  Feels while imbibing alcohol is said to help individuals unwind
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  from the stress of modern day, life of poor circumstances and
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  escape from the pressures of the present life.
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  It becomes a crutch that people do not want to throw away until
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  such time as they recognize the issues.
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  The alcohol is creating for them, physically vitally
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  mentally and in their social relationships.
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  By that time, many have suffered irreversible damage to their
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  internal organs and thus a new round of physical difficulties
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  and suffering follows. If the individual wakes up soon
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  enough to the dangers of any of these addictions, he can
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  exercise will to implement a plan to overcome the Habit,
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  craving or addiction. Whatever it is this plan.
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  Generally involves some kind of changes in diet Out.
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  And in many cases assistance of professionals and use of a
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  program of weaning off of The Addictive substance over time
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  with patience perseverance and a strong will to succeed.
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  Three aurobindo notes, quote. It is the Habit in the
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  subconscient material. That feels an artificial need
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  created by the past and does not care, whether it is harmful or
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  disturbing to the nerves or not. That is the nature of all
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  intoxicants wine, tobacco cocaine, Etc.
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  People go on even after the deleterious effects, have shown
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  themselves and even after all the real pleasure in it has
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  ceased because This artificial need it's not real, the will has
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  to get hold of this subconscient persistence and dissolve it in
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  quote. Reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother living within the yoga approached, a psychological
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  health and growth, disturbances of the subconscient subconscious
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  inhabits Pages 110 to 111.