Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)
Recognizing the hidden addictions that bind you, … to then set your True Self free
Recognizing the hidden addictions that bind you,
… to then set your True Self free
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*Do you periodically check your email or a news app on your phone while hanging out<br />
with o<strong>the</strong>rs?<br />
*Do you feel “naked” or nervous without your phone or when you cannot access <strong>the</strong><br />
Internet?<br />
*Do you regularly watch or listen to Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, or any<br />
similar news pundit?<br />
*Do you subscribe to or regularly read news magazines like Time, Newsweek or US<br />
news & World Report?<br />
*Do you subscribe to or regularly read a newspaper?<br />
*Do you follow <strong>the</strong> news through an email provider like google or yahoo?<br />
*Do you watch or listen to morning news shows while getting ready for work?<br />
*Do you think it is important to “be informed”?<br />
*Do you watch “reality TV”?<br />
*Do you enjoy reading and/or memorizing trivia?<br />
*Do you enjoy sharing inane tidbits of information and obscure facts with your friends?<br />
*Do you enjoy arguing or, when bored, do you incite arguments?<br />
*Do you read to yourself more than you communicate with o<strong>the</strong>rs?<br />
The SOURCE of our INFORMATION ADDICTION<br />
Chances are you answered “yes” to quite a few of <strong>the</strong> previous questions. If so, it doesn’t<br />
make you a “bad person” … It simply makes you a human being like most o<strong>the</strong>r human<br />
beings; a human being who is at least mildly addicted to ga<strong>the</strong>ring information.<br />
But why are we so addicted? Why do we feel so compelled to “know <strong>the</strong> truth” and “be<br />
informed” and “figure life out”? Well, it turns out that information ga<strong>the</strong>ring – both<br />
physiologically and psychologically – is highly addictive.<br />
Whenever we experience acts that are believed to promote our survival (such as eating,<br />
drinking, having sex or receiving large amounts of money) <strong>the</strong> neurotransmitter<br />
dopamine is released along <strong>the</strong> “pleasure pathways” of our brains – providing us with<br />
feelings of physical ecstasy and emotional euphoria. It doesn’t take too many repetitions<br />
of <strong>the</strong>se “life enhancing” behaviors before our brains naturally begin to crave more and<br />
more of <strong>the</strong> dopamine rush <strong>the</strong>y trigger.<br />
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