Addiction is a compulsion that makes an individual yield to addictive causes unmindful of the hazardous consequences. There are no specific causes of any addiction aside from use of a substance or activity, and there is also no way to predict who will become dependent on use. Any substance or activity that has the capacity to be pleasurable can provide the conditions for addiction, as all addictions impact various neural circuits of the brain, including those related to reward, motivation, and memory.
Our addiction theories and policies are woefully outdated. Research shows that there are no demon drugs. Nor are addicts innately defective. Nature has supplied us all with the ability to become hooked—and we all engage in addictive behaviors to some degree.
Millions of people are "hooked," not only on heroin, morphine, amphetamines, tranquilizers, and cocaine, but also nicotine, caffeine, sugar, steroids, work, theft, gambling, exercise, and even love and sex, despite every kind of addiction treatment from psychosurgery, psychoanalysis, psychedelics, and self-help to acupuncture, group confrontation, family therapy, hypnosis, meditation, education and tough love.
Scientists have learned that every animal, from the ancient hagfish to reptiles, rodents, and humans, share the same basic pleasure and "reward" circuits in the brain, circuits that all turn on when in contact with addictive substances or during pleasurable acts such as eating or orgasm One conclusion from this evidence is that addictive behaviors are normal, a natural part of our "wiring." If they weren't, or if they were rare, nature would not have let the capacity to be addicted evolve, survive, and stick around in every living creature.
Our brains didn't develop opiate receptors to tempt us with heroin addiction. The coca plant didn't develop cocaine to produce what we call crack addicts. This plant doesn't care two hoots about our brain. But heroin and cocaine addiction certainly tell us a great deal about how brains work. And how they work is that if you taste or experience something that you like, that feels good, you're reinforced to do that again. Basic drives, for food, sex, and pleasure, activate reward centers in the brain. They're part of human nature.
One of the methods of curing a person from addiction is Past Life Regression Therapy, leading to the question as to what transpires during Past Life Regression Therapy ? And how does this help.
When the person is taken into one of his/her past lives by the therapist, the subconscious mind begins to pour out the deepest emotions, wounds and sorrow of that particular life. This pour out in itself is considered a big step in rehabilitation because grief shared is grief halved. It is found by research that more than 10 percent of the addictions are because of moments of sorrow in the child hood whose causes could be very trivial. Once those trivial causes are treated through Past Life Regression Therapy, the addict can easily do away with addiction. Reliving events of the past can also give the subconscious mind a better picture of the sequence of events. Any misconceptions could also be cleared because of this pour out.
