I'm only going to give you my interpretation

of addiction.

I would say, addiction is

anything

that you tempt to repeat.

And if you hear a word

"Taboo",

which means forbidden,

you might get hurt or killed or die,

if you enter certain place.

So, that word

may cause people

to stay away from certain things.

They could be addicted

to stay away from certain things.

Do you understand that?

So, if you find yourself,

I don't know if you ever did,

singing commercials

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If you hear if often enough

you will sing it.

And you don't even know you're singing it.

Music is also addictive

First of all, I want you to know,

that addiction could be anything.

It could be

addicted to smelling flowers.

If you see flowers, you can't help it but sniff.

That could be an addiction

if you do it often enough.

If the association becomes

often enough,

or frequently used.

I would say the person automatically

don't even know they're addicted

but they sniff.

If they've been doing it often enough.

There are men who smell flowers

once a year.

So they're not addicted to lean forward

and smell it.

Now, how do you change addiction?

First way to change it

is not to become

THAT addicted to anything.

Meaning.. Don't keep

listening to music, if you do

you're gonna be humming it

whether you like it or not.

or you'll be making any noise

that's asociated

with pleasantry, to you.

How do you break addiction again?

Long term addiction,

when the body

is automatically responding to it.

Or you feel you can't live

without it.

Or you feel you can't live

without a certain person.

There are people that take their lives

when their wife or best friend dies

because they can't live

without them.

That's becoming addicted to a person.

If you can't live without the person.

The more friends you have,

the easier

it is to live

without a certain person.

But if you live with one person

all your life, you never go anywhere.

And they're killed

or missing or kidnapped

then you'll live in pain.

But if you have many associations,

many people that you know,

that you like, that are pleasant.

You're less UP TO

become THAT addicted

to any one person.

So, to avoid addiction

avoid superdependency.

And also,

if all your problems are solved:

If you got a mother, that put

your shoes on in the morning

and feed you

with the plate with the spoon,

until you're 7 years old,

or 10 years old,

you become addicted.

You take a book and you read,

you open your mouth, and your mother brings

the food over, you become addicted

to that performance.

It's very difficult for you

to break that if it occured

over long period of time

So, in order to break addiciton

don't go getting involved in repetition

too long a period of time

Now, if a person is already addicted

you have to expose them

to other things

so that the other things become

more important to them.

And so the more things

you're exposed to

the less probable your addiction.

Also, the less

you're exposed to. Do you understand that?

It's easier.

But if it's long term, it's harder,

because the associative system

is almost like

uncontrolable urge to do something.

So what I say

about addiction is try to

avoid repetition

of words that have very little meaning,

and try to avoid

repetititon

of unhealthy dependency.

Do you know what that means?

You smoke cigars,

and you're in an environment,

where everybody smokes cigars,

it's very hard to break that habit.

But when you first get there, you just say

"I'm addicted, I become

hurt physically, I cough."

You have to give them the reason

for walking out, otherwise

they resent you walking out.

Just say: "I have an alergy

against that."

Instead of saying, "Hey! I don't like you guys smoking."

That's an attack,

that's received as an attack.

So it depends on how you put it.

Again, I repeat,

in order to avoid addiction:

Stay away from long-continued practice

and exposure to any one system.

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