The opposite of addiction is sacrifice because it can immediately break the cycle at any point along the repeating pattern.

It can do this because addiction is all about my stuff: 

• my planning
• my acquiring
• my using
• then my covering up
• it’s all about me, me, me, 

So the opposite of that is focusing upon someone else. And specifically, another person’s needs.

Quite simply:

Addiction is all about getting

Sacrifice is all about giving

This may sound simple, and it is, but the power behind it is profound.

The entire Cycle of Addiction is able to perpetuate itself because it keeps the energy flowing in one direction: getting my stuff.

This is Yin in nature, which is the negative polarity of magnet, which only imposes its force one way: pulling in.

This is perfectly personified by the Buddhist idea of The Hungry Ghost. This wandering spirit has a pin-hole sized mouth that is forever trying to suck in enough to fill its bottomless belly. Which of course, it can never do, which is why it remains hungry and why it remains a ghost. I can’t describe addiction any better than that.

Addiction

• Me
• Pulling in
• Getting
• Yin -/negative charge

Sacrifice

• Other
• Sending out
• Giving
• Yang +/positive charge

Listen to the rest of our exploration and explanation of how sacrifice immediately can break the cycle in the podcast. 

Please leave a comment wherever you listen and as always, send me any questions you may have - I’d love to connect!

With Blessings,

Randal