Do You Have an Addiction to Seeking?

This year, I've been introduced to a phenomenon so mind-blowing, it actually has caused me to lose sleep.

There are people in this world who seek, but they aren't looking to find. 🤯

I know.

Now, I'm a Vulcan. 🖖🏻 Logic rules my every move, almost to a fault. So, it seems to me always that when one would seek, they'd be looking to find. Yet, some people just seek to SEEK!

They don't desire the reward of finding, finally untying the knots restricting their esophaguses.

Nope. They're hungry ghosts, and their thrill is the process of seeking.

A friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that the completion for online courses is 2%. People buy shit all the time and do nothing with it.

It's like the dopamine rush from buying a new book. Seekers will buy new books constantly, but they rarely read them to completion. They don't read to learn. They buy books to seek.

To learn would mean you'd have to take the knowledge you've obtained and really let it integrate. You'd have to revisit it again and again, finding new ways to apply it and embody it. You'd have to take that knowledge and use it to push past your own discomfort, and really look at yourself.

For some people, it's easier to seek.

I seek to learn, and I seek to find.

When I was out of control with my drinking, my seeking was to find a solution.

That solution began with reading books.

One book taught me about the chemical processes involved in alcohol use, and how addiction is not a disease, but rather caused by habitual, excessive use over time.

One book taught me about the social aspects of alcohol use I lied to myself about.

One book taught me about how culture had deceived me.

One taught me about how macro level industry exploited me for profit.

And one completely non-alcohol related book taught me how unresolved issues are anything that disturb my peace, and they often cause reactive behaviors.

All of a sudden, I HAD ANSWERS. I knew the what, why, where, how, who, and also, I had a place to start looking deep inside of myself.

I sought... to find. I found, and I got to work. Then, I worked on the actual problem.

Not everyone likes this. Some people don't want answers.

They want to keep seeking. Seeking feels good to the hungry ghost.

This has blown my mind so much, I did a podcast about it.

SIDEBAR:

I work with people who are looking for answers-- THEIR ANSWERS.

There's nothing wrong with seeking to seek, but that's not what I fuck with.

I never realized that seeking could be an addiction, and it's one that people feed with buying more courses, more programs, more ebooks, more shit that will sit on their computers for the rest of ever. All of these things have value, so long as they're consumed by the dedicate learner willing to absorb, embody, and apply.

RIGHT NOW, at this stage, I help people looking to find. They want to find THEIR answers.

They want to get closer to themselves.

They want to release those blocks that keep them stuck in cyclical loops.

They want their minds and bodies to feel better, and they want to challenge their limiting beliefs and disempowering stories to the point where they're disgusted with themselves for telling them so long.

My Day 1 members this weekend ended our call by telling one another "YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL." They inspire me.

They're courageous to push past the barriers of their known selves, and really find.

I would love for YOU to join us.

Day 1 opens for Cohort #2 on September 1. We will be open for two weeks, and then we close again for 3 months.

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