The Tendency to Consume All of What's Left that is Bad for Us - (6078)

We tend to have that tendency to consume all that which is not healthy for us as quickly as possible, even all in one go.

That is often whey we get drunk, we get overweight, we oversleep, we overthink, we gossip too much, we watch to much, we etc. etc. too much.

On a surface level, often it is not what is consumed that is not healthy it is the quantity. 

We can modify this tendency understanding that we can still consume though in small quantities.

The benefit in that is that we don't go into the unhealthy zone and we get to enjoy consuming whatever it is over a longer time span.

Going deeper, the element to really focus on as being unhelpful is our attachment to what we get from what we are consuming. We all get a certain feeling and it is this feeling that we are always looking for.

The basis of this tendency is that we feel for some reason that what we are consuming is not so good for us and so we try to get rid of it as quickly as possible by consuming it all in one go. We do this to try and start again on a new slate, thinking we can be clear of it because we have gotten it out of our system now. But it doesn't quite work out for us later on.

It is this very thinking that actually perpetuates the cycle.

Why? Because we think to start that what it is that we are consuming is unhealthy. That is not the focus the focus is what is it that we are feeding that is unhealthy. 

Because we miss the point we fall back into it again and try to get rid of it again by consuming it all at once again so that we can start off on a new slate thinking we will be different because we have gotten it out of our system.

The way to address the cycle is to not see what we are consuming as unhealthy but to see what it is that we are lacking as the thing in us to heal. We at the end of the day are using consumption as an attempt at healing the internal injury or lacking we have.

We are mostly lacking happiness of some kind and so consuming we find happiness and excitement or novelty to bring some happiness.

End (6078).