Addiction to pornography
QUESTION: Masters I need your wholehearted blessings and strength and advice for overcoming the problem I am about to mention. I am addicted to watching pornography and I am miserably failing at all my attempts to leave it. It’s affecting my vitality and severely hampering my spiritual progress. It’s like a parasite killing my spirit slowly. I want to fulfill my mission on Earth of serving and loving humanity, but I am scared I will end up wasting this lifetime also. Please show me a way before I lose myself. ~Deep, India
ANSWER: Anything that causes a soul within a human body to lose control over the ability to stop a particular physical action is experiencing an addiction. Addictions are a common life lesson in the book of soul lessons. Souls use human bodies to have senses with which to partake in physical actions and to feel the effect each has on the physical nervous system.
Many of your life lessons involve emotional stimulations such as fear, lack of self-worth, and lack of self-esteem. The totally physical sensations you have, which include anything to do with the pleasure senses, are the strongest things a human can feel.
When people are having problems accepting themselves and their progress in life, they engage in something that will take their mind off what else is or is not happening to them. Sexual release blanks out everything else, and for the moment makes everything seem perfectly wonderful. That activity, done other than with another consenting adult, is seen by society as deviant. If you are still in the midst of ego judgment, you then condemn yourself for partaking.
You are feeling so miserable because you don’t understand the need for your addiction, and the addiction itself makes you hate yourself. Work first on accepting yourself. That is, love everything about yourself, since you are a soul gaining experience by undergoing lessons. When you can love yourself, you will not have the need to make yourself feel good physically because you will feel fantastic on an energetic level.