Dear HCwildman,

Your addiction may be to food, or drugs,or anger, or sex, or
the want of attention. You may have more than one addiction. In each
instance, you cannot release addiction until you understand the
dynamic that underlies it. Beneath every addiction is the
perception of power as external, as the ability to control and use
the environment or others. Beneath every addition is an issue of
power.

The journey to the soul begins with understanding that we are
drawn automatically as a species to come to terms with power. Each
human being is experiencing the causes and effects of his or her
choices, his or her desires to fill in the empty, powerless places
within him or her. This dynamic can be described in terms of an
insecure humanity, but that is just the obvious. The mechanism at
work is the journey toward genuine, authentic empowerment.

This is why each human being struggles so deeply with power;the
lack of it, the acquisition of it, what it is really,how one should
have it. Underlying every crisis, emotional, spiritual,physical and
psychological, is the issue of power.

The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly
and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind
what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how to act.
It is a journey through your defenses and beyond,face what it has
produced in your life, and choose to change that. - Ken Archer