Being
Centered

by Roman Oleh Yaworsky

 

SpiritUnleashed Publications (First printing, 2007)

9 x 6, 278 pages, acid free paper

Copyright © 2007 by Roman Oleh Yaworsky

 

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Part 1 – The Foundation

Being Centered: Living from your authentic self

The Inner child: Learning to act from your core

Feelings and Emotions

How Did We Lose Our Inner Child?

Young Face, Old Face: Your Postures in Life

Part 2 – Relationship

The Power of Relationship: Relationship is destiny

Healing the Fire Within: Revealing your heart

The Heart of the Matter: Recovering your heart

The Mind and the Heart

Part 3 - Regaining Your Center

Regaining your Power: Your own healing journey

Inner and Outer Will 

Another Approach to Your Ego

Direction: Knowing what is in your heart 

Sin: Separation from your Inner Nature

Who carries the responsibility for your life?

Addiction: What are you addicted to in your life?

Overcoming Addiction

Taking Care of What You Hold in your Heart

Grace

Resources

Putting it all Together

 

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Addiction

What are you addicted to in your life?

 

Addiction may be described as a situation where you have entered into a dependent relationship with something outside of your self. It is something that brought relief or a heightened sense of joy at the beginning. Now, it negatively affects your life and you experience difficulty in letting go of this dependency.

Although we may have the impression that addiction is something removed from our lives, or that it happens to someone else, many of our behaviors, in one way or another, are addictions.

The wrong way home

Surprisingly, addiction occurs because we try to regain our center, our sense of joy and aliveness. It occurs because, in one way or another, we find ourselves identifying with being caught in a stance far removed from that joy, from that aliveness. We seek escape from being caught in our issues, and at the same time, we seek to taste some of that joy.

The problem for most of us is that when we choose an external agency to accomplish this, our joy or escape tends to be short lived. Often, we are brought back to where we started, except that we are brought back with a fall, a crash. Our escape did not solve our problem, it only postponed it. We may have gotten a taste of joy or expansion, but that taste came with a price.

That price was that we didn’t achieve that experience out of ourselves, but out of an external agency. In a sense, we gave up a little of our will in exchange for a little bit of release from our burden  .  .  .