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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Finding True Love

We all desire to be with that special someone, to find the one we are meant to be with. Yet it feels hard and sometimes impossible to connect and to be found. There are so many people, so many to search through, so many choices. Yet even to meet the right one seems improbable. It is not. It is not a task or a struggle, you must believe it is probable, to the point of it being your right. You deserve happiness and companionship, and you will find it. It will come, for this is part of your life and in truth the odds are with you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Guiding Your Child

When we are raising our children we are guiding them through life, giving them advice and teaching them what they need to know. Children follow by example; they watch and listen to everything we do. What habits we have in ourselves can follow them in their lives. How we look at the world can also become their perception of it. That is why how we live our lives affects our child’s life in a way that becomes their own. Of course, each child is an individual, but sometimes in their behavior you can see a mirror of yourself. It is helpful to look at our children this way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,118 views★ 3.8 (5)

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why We Think About Our Past So Often

Sometimes we spend a chunk of our lives looking back on what was. We are stuck remembering and holding onto something that is no more. We reflect on old issues, remembering things that have happened and moments that have passed. Why do we do this; why is it so important to us that it, in a way, consumes us? What benefit is there from spending so much time reflecting and remembering? Sometimes it seems like our mind wanders there on its own, without our consent.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

11,081 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Be Centered and Grounded

Sometimes in life things can feel out of control, like we are being pulled in many different directions. When things feel this way, we too can become that way inside. Our emotions and thoughts scatter, rising and falling with the events in our lives. It can be hard to stay grounded, to be present, when we feel like we are always stuck in this very reactive mode. Sure, it can be easier to feel okay when everything is fine and all seems to be working as it should. But once that changes do you find yourself responding from a place of fear and worry?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

9,222 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why It Is So Important To Love Yourself

When we speak of love, we think of others and what they mean to us; we think of those we love. We do not, however, delve into what we think of ourselves and if we love the most important person to us, ourselves. Love, when given to ourselves, has the power to erase doubt, self-loathing, discrimination, and any hurtful feelings we may feel. It erases the negative ways we see ourselves, and it also alleviates that feeling that no one cares or that we are alone. For when we love ourselves unconditionally, we are complete; we do not need others to fill this void.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

7,709 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

What Does It Mean To Be In The Moment?

What is the meaning behind being in the moment; what does it really do for us? Existing solely in the moment you are in allows you to connect to what is real. Anytime we are withdrawn, distant, or not present, we are living in a way that is not real. Existing anywhere other than the exact moment you are in creates a false world around you. When we are lost in our past, our memories, or our thoughts, we are existing in a time that is no longer real. Even if we are somewhat present, yet distant because of our thoughts or emotions, we are not existing in reality.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

7,139 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Feel More Involved In Life

If you feel closed off, protected, or withdrawn, you can physically change this feeling in yourself. You can bring more awareness into your life by purposefully opening yourself up to the world. This can be done in stages and through many steps. It is important to know that when we are withholding ourselves, what we are really doing is trying to protect ourselves. So to substantiate this feeling, we look at the world as a place that is fundamentally hard or that is against us in some way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

6,556 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why You Have To Stop Waiting For Life To Begin

We sometimes go through life in a dream-like state, never really connecting or being who we truly are. It is as if we are waiting for ourselves to begin or for our life to take form. It is this constant waiting that prevents us from taking the center stage in our life. The waiting for the right moment, for things to get better, or change, where does this get us? This kind of dissatisfaction leaves us not only wanting, but distant and not at peace in our own life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

5,145 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

When Life Feels Heavy or Hard

Opening up to the possibilities in life is important. If we feel hopeless and challenged too often, we lose the purpose in our life. We stop seeing what could be, and instead see the end of things. Letting go of this viewpoint in life enables you to see life as it really is for you. If we believe life is a struggle, then it will continuously feel this way. If we see life as uplifting, then everyday we can experience this.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

5,021 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Your Old Self

Finding out who you really are is about letting go of who you think you are. We develop certain ideas of who we are and hold onto them, even if they do not fit the real us. Sometimes our habits and even certain ways of being feel so real that we cannot imagine living without them. What do you do then; how do you let go of something that feels permanent to you? What you need to do is to see past the idea of it being permanent, for nothing is permanent and you can change as fast and as often as you desire.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

4,807 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Become One With Everything

Releasing the idea of trying to be something else, something more, and allowing yourself to become one with all that exists is a true possibility for you. It does have to do with believing enough in yourself, that who you are in this moment is enough without reaching any further. It is believing you are ready to release the idea of trying to be a certain way, of pushing yourself, and realizing that you at this moment are ready for everything.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

4,794 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Approaching Someone That You Have A Crush On

When we like someone, we may be afraid to approach them. We may have developed a crush and feelings toward them, but because of our fear of rejection, we haven’t spoken to them about the possibility of getting together. When we really like someone, approaching them feels even hard because they have become something more to us. We may imagine what they would be like or simply feel good when we see them. But how does a person go up to another person and really say what they want to say?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

3,875 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Losing Yourself In A Relationship

Losing yourself in a relationship is a common occurrence. It happens when we forgo our own happiness for that of another, when we give up on our self so that the relationship stays as how we think it should. We give our identity over to the combined effort of keeping the relationship in stasis. When we lose ourselves to a relationship, we are inducing a sadness and a loss from within ourselves. The relationship can never make up for what we have given up to keep it going.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

3,202 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Doubt

When you doubt yourself, you are basically saying that you cannot do what you want to do. For every moment we doubt ourselves, we are limiting our abilities and we are stopping ourselves. We limit ourselves, and therefore we lack self-confidence. It is a two-way street. If we doubt ourselves, we have no self-confidence. One creates the other. When we stop ourselves from what we want to do because we have no faith in ourselves, our lack of confidence grows. Usually doubt begins to form not because of what we think of ourselves, but because of how we perceive others to see us.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

3,189 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Understanding The Need To Control

Feeling the need to be in control is a strong habit. It helps us to feel safe, at peace, and content, but only on the surface, for under the desired effect of trying to control lies the real discontentment that is causing the action. The continued desire for control will override any satisfaction obtained by maintaining it; it is a losing battle, for in gaining control over anything there is also the desire to maintain it.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

3,001 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Feeling Hopeful Again

As we go through life, sometimes we lose the idea of hope; we give up on things changing, on ourselves, on our world becoming better. We lose the hope that resides within, so that we can come to terms with what has already happened thus far in our lives. We see what has come before and assume it is all it will ever be. We are drawing a line in the sand, so to say, on our future. Why lose hope when it seems the only thing that could give us a chance to dream is to see hope not only in ourselves, but in the future.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,843 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Change Your Perception Of Life

Open up your perception of life and you will not only live life differently, but will see the world in a whole new way. Often, we can get locked into seeing the world as we think it is, instead of seeing what is real. This can come from how we feel about ourselves. We project how we feel outwards. We may hold onto past memories and replay them in the present, recreating our old experiences in the world around us. We may find ourselves judging others by how we think they should be, instead of allowing ourselves to see them as they are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,772 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why Do I Feel Lost?

Do you feel confused about your life or lost? Does your life feel like it has no purpose or plan, that you are just using up time? Do you wonder about when it will get better and when will you start really living your life? When you feel this way there is a reason. All of these thoughts mean something and add up to what is really missing from your life. The difference between someone who is content and someone who feels lost or even distant from their own life is realizing one thing. That thing is what is inside of you.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,772 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

When Others Put You Second

What do you do when others think they are more important than you? How do you deal with people who always put themselves first? It seems like there is always someone who believes they deserve more than others. It is not just that they put themselves first, but it is that they put you second. This can feel horrible and be very hard to deal with. How do you balance out the conflict and find a resolution when it is probably someone you relate to often, maybe even someone important to you?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,598 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why Life Feels Boring

What is boredom? Is it seeing our life as not enough? We may want something else, believe we need something else, in order to be happy and feel fulfilled. But it is also feeling that we are missing something, either missing out on something in life or lacking what it is we need to be happy. It is not about not having enough to do, for most of us have plenty of this. It is this need for more that we rely on in life, for we believe that when we have enough of whatever it may be, then we will feel and be satisfied. Some of us may wonder what it is that we lack, for we may not even know.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,368 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Feel Comfortable When Meeting People

Often times in life, we interact with people we do not know and try to find a way to relate to them. Without feeling uncomfortable, how does one interact with someone else they know nothing about? How do you get the conversation started, where do you begin? Some of us are natural talkers and some of us aren’t. Some of us hold ourselves back and others push forward. How does one relate to another when the balance is not there and the conversation is not running smoothly? And, more importantly, how do you feel at ease no matter what? Meeting new people can feel stressful.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,248 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Negativity

How we look at our life and the world around us has a lot to do with how we live our lives. If we see our lives from a point of view that is pessimistic, negative, or without hope, then this is what our lives will feel like. When we see our lives as progressing, changing, and evolving, then this is the life we will live. The same can be said for how we see the world around us; it is all a matter of our perception. Two people seeing the same thing will of course interpret it differently.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,228 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

The Source Of Addiction

Addiction comes from a place of wanting, of needing something to fulfill and replace part of one’s life. It can be seen as an escape, but the real need is much more. What is missing that needs to be replaced? What part of life is empty and aching for fulfillment? It is a place that may be hard to reach and see. One often seeks to fill the emptiness without the truth behind the desire. Why is the desire there? That is the real question and one that should be sought out, for from there the problem arises.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,113 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Being Calm Under Stress

In our day-to-day life, we get over excited, overstimulated, stressed, and overworked, too much of one thing or another, whether it is our frame of mind, our emotional reactions, or something in our outside world affecting us. We all need to learn the techniques that enable us to relax at all times. What this means is we can have the ability to retrain our behaviors so that we can feel better, no matter what is happening or how we are feeling. This is a great tool for all situations, for it is in these times that we overreact, that we feel the most out of whack.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

2,049 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

What Is Acceptance?

To accept something is to let it be as it is, to not fight it, not even the idea of it, internally. It is to be open to what is, however it may be, without resistance. It is the understanding that every moment changes; therefore, what may be now will change. This allows continual acceptance to happen. When we create resistance against ideas, moments, thoughts, feelings, others, or anything at all, we are forcing ourselves into one way of living. It is saying I can only be happy if I approve and accept what is happening or going on around me.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,960 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why We Fear Something

We think that if we fear something, it is there to stay, that it is permanent, and unchangeable. But this is not so, and we must take a very personal look at ourselves to see why we think this is. When we believe something about ourselves, we encapsulate it, we make it stronger, and therefore more real to us. We see ourselves as one way, and we become so. What we believe about ourselves is how we are. It is just as easy to change your perception of yourself as it is to change your mind. And fears work the same way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,885 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Let Go Of Emotional Stress

During life, we may encounter periods of time where we are under a lot of stress. We tend to hold onto these moments and carry them forward with us. How we felt during that period is also carried forward if we do not let go of it. That is why, even though the moment we are in may seem good, easy, and enjoyable, we may still feel anxious, unsure, and troubled. Letting go of what happened to us, as well as how we felt, is very important in order to feel at ease and confident with where we are.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,880 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Why You Are Afraid

Sometimes we hold onto fear even after the moment has passed. We maintain this sense of fear because we still haven't let it go. What happens to us stays with us until we make a conscious effort to let it go. When we tense up in life, it could be because of a past fear, and not just the moment we are in. Fear can come from any moment in your past. When something in our life makes us feel afraid it can stay with us, until we let it go. We can carry this feeling with us always. It can spring up in us when we least expect it, for it is attached to our emotions and thoughts.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,811 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Finding Peace In Your Day

We all want to feel good and be at peace during our day. We strive for this and attain it at times, but during the course of our day, we struggle to keep that feeling. We get lost in our day-to-day motions and forget how important it is to come from this place, to exist in this way. We lose the balance we had because we are too busy, worried, stressed, anxious, or any other of the many ways we choose to feel. Finding your way back to feeling that sense of peace, no mater the moment, is a very useful tool.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,785 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Waiting For Happiness To Come

We all seek happiness in our life; we all want to find peace, contentment, to be at ease, and feel fulfilled. And yet how often does this really happen, and what is the key to finding this? How can we live a life that provides not only this, but everything else we desire? How do we connect to living a life that is complete with nothing missing? How do we reach point that point in our life where we can become happy? One thing to understand is that life is not about reaching a goal because life is about right now.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,783 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Deal With Angry And Negative People

We often come across people who for no good reason treat us badly, not that there is ever a good reason. People who behave in this way, who attack verbally or on a personal level, are really seeking acknowledgment and approval within themselves. By pushing outward they are trying to attain a level of completeness in themselves. For example, as you cross the street someone unjustifiably honks their horn in anger, where does this come from and why is it directed at you?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,712 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Feeling Sad

Where does sadness come from when you don't understand its presence? Why is it there when you see no reason for it? Sadness itself has no control over you; it is not a separate thing. If we imagine sadness itself as something we must get rid of, let go of, or solve, then we are going about it the wrong way. Sadness is there because of something you are holding onto, something that occurred in your past, something that is still with you today. Sadness is simply attachment to something that has happened in your life that you have not yet let go of.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,705 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Change And Let Go Of Old Patterns

When you wake up in the morning do you feel like you are ready to start the day as who you are or do you see one moment the same as the next, the same as yesterday? It is important in life to remember that all is changing constantly, including yourself. It is easy to forget and to accept ourselves as just the person we’ve already decided we are. Not letting go every day of not only how we see ourselves but the day as well, can keep us in a state of repetitive stagnation. We are never the same as we were yesterday.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,611 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Walls Or Barriers In A Relationship

When we are in a close relationship with another person, sometimes we can feel the walls between each other. Sometimes, one of us may be trying to protect ourselves or hiding what we really are from the other person. After a while, this behavior becomes normal and thus is prolonged. If you have been in a relationship for a while, yet still feel like you haven’t connected fully to the other person, there could be a reason. First, look at yourself. Are you trying to protect yourself because of something that has happened in your past?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,604 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Surviving Traumatic Events

In the wake of traumatic events it feels like the world is closing in and nothing makes sense, not even what others tell you or how you feel. It can be very unmanageable in how you feel and think, like nothing is right and you don’t know where to turn. Yet this moment is when you need direction and answers the most because of the ungrounding nature of the event.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,548 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Releasing Grief

When we are faced with the moment of losing something, whether it is a job, a loved one, or a way of being, it can act as a catalyst of reversion, leading us on a path away from ourselves. It is almost as if in order to deal with it we must lose ourselves as well. To be present is harder than letting go of the situation and falling into what overwhelms us. To see ourselves clearly in these moments helps to exist with what is happening. By letting go of ourselves we lose the hold of not only our own reality but of what is true.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,479 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Releasing Attachments

Throughout life we grow accustomed to things, to needs, and to the belief in how things must be. We believe we can't do without them, that in order to be happy things must be a certain way. But do they have to be? And what happens when we lose the things that are necessary to us? When life stops conforming to our understanding of how we must live, what do we do? We might believe certain patterns in our life are necessary for our happiness.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,390 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Perspective and Acceptance

What is the best outlook to have on life? If we are to have one perspective, what should it be and where should it come from? We can look at life in so many ways. We can see it as a struggle, as something to be fought against, as a hardship. At times, do we not see life from this vantage point, as an obstacle to overcome? We may also see life as a ladder we have to climb, always striving to reach a goal or accomplishment, but never reaching the point when we can stop. Or we may come from another stand-point, that of waiting, never really committing to life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,381 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Be Successful In Life

Success comes from doing what you want and desire in life. It is living your life to the fullest and being who you really are. You will find that as you do this all else falls into place, things begin to happen, and the obstacles fall away. This is because you are doing what you are meant to do. Sometimes what we think we are meant to do is not correlated with success. If you find the idea of yourself and your purpose does not bring you satisfaction, then you are not on the right path. Believe me when I say success is you doing what you are meant to do.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,372 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Expectations

Expectations of oneself or others can be a hard thing to live with. If we do not live up to our own expectations, we feel lost at our own inability. If others let us down, we have a hard time understanding or even forgiving them. Expectations are ideas of how things should be and work out in our lives. Expectations can also be looked at as rules laid down by us to be followed, either within ourselves or by others. Does life really follow our example of what we think should be? Are we really in control of how life is and will be?

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,365 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Feeling At Peace With Life

In our search to feel content and at peace in life, we may think we have to change our behavior or habits, but does this really work? What really is in our way of finding peace is our decision of what life is. It is the belief that somehow we can figure it out, figure out our problems, and destroy our struggles? What we have is the core belief that what we do today will inhibit any further creation of tomorrow’s sorrows. We think that if we can stop the struggles in our life right now, we will live in peace in the future. But life does not work this way.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,362 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Letting Go Of Your Ideas Of The World

When we let go of our ideas of the world around us, we begin to see what is really there. When we open ourselves up to what is real, we begin to live the life we are really living. Just by setting aside our agendas, expectations, control, and the process we normally live by, we escape the rudimentary existence we have been living in. Life is not only how we see it or believe it to be. Opening up yourself to simply be with what is, without your ideas controlling how you see life, is a remarkable experience, for often we are choosing how to see life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,361 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

When You Feel Overwhelmed

When we feel ourselves closing off and retreating from life, when we feel ourselves holding ourselves back, we must search for the reason why. For when we see and understand this, we are all the more prepared to deal with it. Retreating is our attempt at not only hiding from reality, but stepping aside from the issue at hand. We are trying to remove ourselves from life and from the problem. But of course this doesn't help us, it doesn't solve anything. It only serves to make us feel worse in the end.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,356 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Confidence And Believing In Yourself

A lack of confidence is caused by the idea that we need something more to be who we are. Yet we already are everything we are meant to be. The lack of confidence comes from not believing this. It is seeing yourself through clouded eyes and not believing in your potential as it already is. Each of us is fully capable in life to handle everything, to cope and go forward, and to be the best we can be. Yet we tend to think otherwise, to talk ourselves out of it and out of our own potential in life. We are all equal, it is only ourselves that we choose to bring down and not believe in.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

How To Overcome The Fear Of Change

Sometimes we fear change. Why? Because we do not know what will happen. It is this fear that keeps us from enjoying life. Because we cannot know what will be, we fear; we fear the not knowing. It isn't so much what could happen as we cannot prepare for whatever may be. In order to feel more at ease about our future, we need to look at life from another perspective. Instead of assuming we are in a revolving pattern in life, we need to understand we are always and only going forward.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

1,313 views

By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Choosing Happiness

During life, we may sometimes find ourselves in a slump, experiencing sadness, emptiness, or withdrawal at times when we know our lives should be making us happy. This can be confusing. Why, if all seems as it should be, are we not happy? What is in our way or stopping us from experiencing the happiness we deserve? Sometimes, it is us. Sometimes, we are the ones who have chosen to be unhappy. Why do we do this? Because, at one point in our lives, we may have experienced something that made us think our life was an unhappy place.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Find and Understand Your Destiny

Our chosen path already exists within us. The path we are meant for, our destiny, is true to our heart and our being. It is here, throughout life, we are being led toward. Sometimes, of course, the path is averted or ignored completely. We then become unsatisfied and full of want. It can be hard to see clearly the choices meant for us. To hear above the noise, the direction that is calling us forward. But in your heart and deep within, when you have found your true path, all becomes light and filled with life.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Connect To Your True Self

Opening up to your true self can be a very rewarding experience. It can shed light on not only who you are, but what you have become. Often, we do not see the real us. We get lost in our day-to-day lives, the managing of our existence, and forget to connect to the real us. Sometimes we may even be living a life that doesn’t even connect to who we really are. We may act and relate to others not from our true selves, but from an idea of who we think we are. Our whole life could be a mirage, a duplicate existence, that doesn’t connect or even portray our true form.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Problems Sleeping Due To Stress and Worry

When you wake up in the morning do you feel rested, awake, and ready to start the day or are you like most people, plagued with restless nights and fitful sleep? Sleep patterns have a lot to do with stress in our lives. What we live through and are worried about will often carry over into our sleep, keeping us up and unable to fall asleep. Our dreams can reflect our lives, also leading to unrest. Our minds are cluttered with so much, trying to solve problems, worried, going over and over the day or the day to come. It is no wonder that when we lie down our mind doesn’t stop.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Adam BenedettoRecently published1 topic

Obsessive Behaviors And Their Source

Obsessive behaviors occur when one is trying to make themselves feel better; it is a mechanism created by the need to sooth, compensate, or satiate an issue. The behavior is a way of trying to balance out an internal problem. It is an unconscious way of trying to take care of an unrecognized issue, for sometimes the need behind the behavior goes unnoticed, and therefore one is not able to cope with the real problem. Any kind of behavior that occurs over and over again because of a desire can be deemed obsessive.

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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