The Cause

http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/thoughts-on-craving/ brings up the topic.

Issues in our life, as children and as adults, cause us suffering, which in turn cause a feeling inadequacy, if only we had more, could do more, to be more, which is never enough. The desire causing cravings, a need for more, something to fill the desire for more, and we try to fill it with more food. It works for a bit, as it pushes dopamine, serotonin and opoiods to the brain, but we need more, as the tolerance builds.

The solution is recognizing the suffering, and the desire for a solution to the suffering. The typical craving results from a desire to remove the suffering, and the solution is accepting, letting go of the desire for more. Remove the suffering by identification of the cause; a desire to please others, a need to please others, or what ever is driving us.

This all works through implied memories and imprinted reaction, developed in a immature mind, that no longer work, if they ever did.

First we need to give up the substances, fructose, excessive glucose, alcohol, what ever, then turn to the present time, via mediation or similar process, and learn to be our own light, cutting of those feeling of not enough before they become a craving. No is a complete sentence.

Next, mediation is the quickest way to the cause that I have found, and through mindfulness, we are able to trace back the through the craving, the need for a solution of suffering, to the root cause, a feeling of inadequacy we developed as a child.