The life of the human being takes place through continuous experiences that make him feel good or, on the contrary, make him suffer. Depending on how the mind interprets a certain experience, as pleasant or unpleasant, this information is instantly transmitted, at the cellular level, throughout the being and, consequently, one feels good or bad. This leads to feeling attraction or repulsion towards some experiences. At this point, the common logic tells us that we should look for experiences that make us feel good and at the same time avoid those that make us feel bad. However, practical experience teaches us that human beings experience attraction and attachment in equal measure, both for pleasurable experiences and for unpleasant experiences. And if human logic willingly accepts the attachment to a pleasant experience, the problem arises when the human being attacks and wants to continually relive unpleasant, painful, humiliating situations. In this case we evidently feel a remarkable logical break.
We have to ask ourselves: for what obscure reason does someone want to repeat a painful experience, an experience that damages it? Why does a woman keep searching and want to go back to the man who mistreats her? Why does a person who crashes with the car at high speed, as soon as he gets back on his feet, start running again as before? Why does a person who loses a limb in an extreme sport, puts on a prosthesis and returns to practice that same sport? For what reason does a person with lung cancer want to continue smoking and eventually die? In some cases, like the latter, the lack of correct information and the opinion of the pseudo luminaries can deceive us and convince us that the cause is physical, organic and chemical dependence. Instead, appealing to common intelligence, we should ask ourselves: why are there people who, after smoking two packets of cigarettes a day, for forty or fifty years, then suddenly stop, and do so without any physical discomfort, organic? It is obvious that this is something else, which does not have much to do with the physical part. The causes that determine certain behaviors without logic, common sense and self-respect, can be found in two aspects. The first is called stupidity and it is the worst disease that has ever afflicted human beings. It is the disease that kills the most victims in the world every day. The second aspect, what interests us, is called the subconscious. When we talk about attachments, the subconscious is the cause of all the suffering of the human being. The subconscious is that invisible and extremely efficient mechanism that drives us to perform those actions that we have repeated many times in the past (gestures, thoughts, words). We need only think of some glaring examples such as: the smoking habit, the choice of partners who always bring suffering, various diseases that originate from the repetition of wrong habits, etc. Those who smoke, for example, will remember that the first cigarettes were a horrible experience. The bitter taste in the mouth, the burning throat, the feeling of suffocation when the smoke first enters the lungs and many other unpleasant symptoms indicate to us that it has certainly not developed an attachment because the experience was pleasant! The attachment to this unhealthy habit has developed because the person has repeated many times the experience, probably to be fashionable or out of solitude, until the subconscious has stored the information. The subconscious has done the rest pushing the person to perpetuate that kind of action, in a continuous repetition of what was chosen and done in the past. Another example to understand what we are talking about are people who seem to have an innate talent for always choosing the "wrong" partner. We see them moving from one relationship to another, always confronting the same dynamics and always choosing those people who make them suffer and who happens to have almost always the same characteristics. Even in this situation, the mechanism is the same. At first there is some unpleasant experience to which one does not react, looking stupidly for justifications, and the subconscious stores these experiences as normality, and then proposes them again. In this way, one always unconsciously chooses the new partners only if they have those characteristics that the subconscious recognizes. For what concerns the diseases, for example, things are even more obvious. The psychological attachment to the suffering generated by some diseases is, in our days, so great that people are almost proud of it. The pathological is so deeply rooted in the subconscious of these people that it seems they no longer even think about healing.
They passively and almost boastly accept their status as "sick" and continue undaunted to take the same actions that led them to illness and entertain the disease itself. For example, in our days, it has become almost impossible not to continually come across people with gastro-intestinal problems, people who say they are intolerant to a certain number of foods, etc. We often hear of people suffering from celiac disease, so that restaurateurs have equipped themselves with everything they need to be able to serve these customers as well. The paradox is that few of these people are really interested in healing and that can be deduced from the fact that they always repeat the same mistakes that generated that pathology. They say they can't eat a whole series of foods and then, aberrantly, consume coffee, smoke, eat whole chocolate bars, eat fish, meat, etc., that is everything that generates acidity in the body and inflames the intestines.
If you point out that coffee is harmful to the health of the intestine, they look at you with the eyes of the condemned to death and they answer: "no, no, I can't give up coffee!" Their psychological dependence on this substance is so deeply rooted that they do not even realize the absurdity of the situation. Then we have the most dangerous and harmful of psychological addictions: that of our thoughts and our convictions, the dependence in front of which any form of reason disappears. This is the form of dependency that generates family conflicts, social conflicts, religious or cultural wars, political conflicts. In the name of an idea that in most cases does not even belong to those who express it, an idea borrowed from others, stop being human, break historic friendships, get divorced, send people to jail, you kill!
We have to ask ourselves: for what obscure reason does someone want to repeat a painful experience, an experience that damages it? Why does a woman keep searching and want to go back to the man who mistreats her? Why does a person who crashes with the car at high speed, as soon as he gets back on his feet, start running again as before? Why does a person who loses a limb in an extreme sport, puts on a prosthesis and returns to practice that same sport? For what reason does a person with lung cancer want to continue smoking and eventually die? In some cases, like the latter, the lack of correct information and the opinion of the pseudo luminaries can deceive us and convince us that the cause is physical, organic and chemical dependence. Instead, appealing to common intelligence, we should ask ourselves: why are there people who, after smoking two packets of cigarettes a day, for forty or fifty years, then suddenly stop, and do so without any physical discomfort, organic? It is obvious that this is something else, which does not have much to do with the physical part. The causes that determine certain behaviors without logic, common sense and self-respect, can be found in two aspects. The first is called stupidity and it is the worst disease that has ever afflicted human beings. It is the disease that kills the most victims in the world every day. The second aspect, what interests us, is called the subconscious. When we talk about attachments, the subconscious is the cause of all the suffering of the human being. The subconscious is that invisible and extremely efficient mechanism that drives us to perform those actions that we have repeated many times in the past (gestures, thoughts, words). We need only think of some glaring examples such as: the smoking habit, the choice of partners who always bring suffering, various diseases that originate from the repetition of wrong habits, etc. Those who smoke, for example, will remember that the first cigarettes were a horrible experience. The bitter taste in the mouth, the burning throat, the feeling of suffocation when the smoke first enters the lungs and many other unpleasant symptoms indicate to us that it has certainly not developed an attachment because the experience was pleasant! The attachment to this unhealthy habit has developed because the person has repeated many times the experience, probably to be fashionable or out of solitude, until the subconscious has stored the information. The subconscious has done the rest pushing the person to perpetuate that kind of action, in a continuous repetition of what was chosen and done in the past. Another example to understand what we are talking about are people who seem to have an innate talent for always choosing the "wrong" partner. We see them moving from one relationship to another, always confronting the same dynamics and always choosing those people who make them suffer and who happens to have almost always the same characteristics. Even in this situation, the mechanism is the same. At first there is some unpleasant experience to which one does not react, looking stupidly for justifications, and the subconscious stores these experiences as normality, and then proposes them again. In this way, one always unconsciously chooses the new partners only if they have those characteristics that the subconscious recognizes. For what concerns the diseases, for example, things are even more obvious. The psychological attachment to the suffering generated by some diseases is, in our days, so great that people are almost proud of it. The pathological is so deeply rooted in the subconscious of these people that it seems they no longer even think about healing.
They passively and almost boastly accept their status as "sick" and continue undaunted to take the same actions that led them to illness and entertain the disease itself. For example, in our days, it has become almost impossible not to continually come across people with gastro-intestinal problems, people who say they are intolerant to a certain number of foods, etc. We often hear of people suffering from celiac disease, so that restaurateurs have equipped themselves with everything they need to be able to serve these customers as well. The paradox is that few of these people are really interested in healing and that can be deduced from the fact that they always repeat the same mistakes that generated that pathology. They say they can't eat a whole series of foods and then, aberrantly, consume coffee, smoke, eat whole chocolate bars, eat fish, meat, etc., that is everything that generates acidity in the body and inflames the intestines.
If you point out that coffee is harmful to the health of the intestine, they look at you with the eyes of the condemned to death and they answer: "no, no, I can't give up coffee!" Their psychological dependence on this substance is so deeply rooted that they do not even realize the absurdity of the situation. Then we have the most dangerous and harmful of psychological addictions: that of our thoughts and our convictions, the dependence in front of which any form of reason disappears. This is the form of dependency that generates family conflicts, social conflicts, religious or cultural wars, political conflicts. In the name of an idea that in most cases does not even belong to those who express it, an idea borrowed from others, stop being human, break historic friendships, get divorced, send people to jail, you kill!
