How to Overcome Compulsions | Sadhguru

Compulsiveness is coming from ingrained memory to what extent it dominates will decide how compulsive you are, , don't try to counter it, don't try to forcefully beat it what spiritual process means is, , to create an awareness. to become conscious in such a way. that we override the memory. . my question is about compulsion. . eating compulsion drug compulsion, feeling compulsion every compulsion in. life, and how this. is connected with the, a lot of noise and disturbing that we. have inside. how we express this noise inside through the compulsion to outside. see. what you call as compulsive is. generally people only recognize. compulsive physical behavior somebody is addicted to drink somebody, is addicted to something else somebody. compulsively, is abusive or something else negative, that they cannot avoid doing, is considered compulsive. but we must look a little deeper, the very way we sit and stand largely it's, compulsive maybe if you are practicing, hatha yoga slowly. how you sit how you stand is becoming a, conscious process, otherwise it's largely compulsive, if we see your shadow how you sit down we almost know who it. is because you sit in a particular way. you stand up in a particular way have you noticed this every body has its own compulsive patterns. compulsiveness, is coming from ingrained memory you can call it genetic you can call it, karmic you can call it by many other. names but essentially. memory has taken over your life, what spiritual process means is. to create an awareness to become conscious in such a way that. we override the memory not just in small levels of compulsiveness of behavior or food or whatever else. but. in the very compulsiveness of life, which has to go through cyclical process. of life and death. to beat the ultimate compulsion is. the longing to be born. and the inevitable process of life and death, so when we use the word mukti. i know today there are mukti chocolates, and ice creams, but, it's okay they're making the word, popular, at least that way you use the word. so essentially compulsiveness means something is going cyclical you are not able to beat the cyclical, movement that's happening within you either. psychologically emotionally energy wise or physically. in your behavior patterns, maybe you are noticing only the behavioral patterns the compulsive nature of your behavior, you are not noticing the compulsive, nature of your thought. unless it becomes very acute, compulsive nature of your emotion, compulsive nature of the way the energy, patterns move,

and above all the compulsive nature of your very existence, every aspect of life. is influenced by memory to what extent it dominates will decide. how compulsive you are, it is like, i think i said this some time ago. swami creeps upon me every day. but not compulsively. when uh on the headphones they hear my voice is, little going like that. he's coming with a warm drink which sometimes i drink and sometimes i. don't, but. you can make this a compulsive pattern. that is every day at 12 o'clock i am. sorry at 2 o'clock warm drink. you need it you don't need it, this is called developing good habits. there are no good habits all habits are bad because, habit means you're trying to operate in a compulsive pattern, when you feel thirsty you drink water, no no not like that doctor tells you, every day three liters of water, half the time you were in the pee place now doctor should not tell you when to, drink water you must be conscious when, you need water, something so simple. but no no no it's all set when it's all set it looks like you're functioning efficiently yes you are. efficiency without a heart is no good, it's cruel, adolf hitler is very efficient. but inhuman. this is what will happen in everybody's. life unknowingly you become tyrannical, maybe you will never be fortunately as. capable as him, but you will become equally cruel to. yourself and everybody around you. because you have your stupid sense of discipline now, but sadhguru if i don't wake up my children at six o'clock they will wake up at noon time it is true. it is true, you have to wake them up at six o'clock. otherwise they may become sloth so this is a fine game, life is a fine game, if you want to do it in a crude way, you can do it but if you want to do it well it's a fine. game, the same thing can be done in many different ways so sadhguru how do i wake up my children sadhguru in a conscious way. at six o'clock in the morning, because they have to go to school at. seven. well. there are many situations in the world, which not entirely our makings but we. have to sync with it otherwise, we will become disaligned with everything. we have to wake up the child, to send him to school at seven this happened. at seven o'clock not six, a. mother came, for the tenth time since early morning. and shook her son wake up you need to go to school he said. mama likes me in school the teachers don't like me. the rest of the staff don't like me. the bus drivers hate me i don't want to go to school. so the mother said. no you must be responsible you have to, go to the school after all you are the, principal

to fulfill certain situations we create certain patterns but the pattern can be conscious pattern, it may be a rigid pattern but a conscious pattern for a period of time to fulfill certain situations but it need not become a part of our system. if you go with the rhythms of nature naturally some things will happen in. certain ways isn't that also compulsive that every year in the month of june, monsoon should come is that not, compulsive it is that is the nature of that is the, physical nature of the existence it is by patterns set patterns. unfortunately even the monsoons are. becoming a bit conscious and not coming, that's an unfortunate break of pattern, but physical nature is made of patterns, whether individual atom, or a cell or a molecule. or the entire system this is the way physical is made, this is the difference or distinction a. human being knowingly or unknowingly, trying to establish that i am something, beyond the physical. no spiritual teaching might have gone, into an individual person but still even that person is trying to somehow prove to. himself or herself that i am something more than physical if somebody treats you just as a. physical entity you don't like it isn't. it. hello physicality falls into set. patterns a dimension beyond physical doesn't fall, into any set patterns that is where it. is from that dimension the very idea of, consciousness has risen in human mind. human beings right now in the evolutionary scale of things are like. let's say a bird. which was. left in a cage for a long time. then, after many years the cage door is left open, but the bird never makes an attempt to fly. because it's gotten used to the cage it's gotten identified with the cage and it doesn't fly, this is human nature right now in the evolutionary scale of things, what was a crawling creature, now has become like this now. the lid is blown away but still we don't, crawl out simply because of habit the genetic influence causing compulsive behavior. this happened. a three-year-old, boy told his friend. when i grow up i will, marry. the girl next door, so the friend asked why so the boy said. because i am not allowed to cross the, street so, , compulsiveness. don't try to counter it don't try to forcefully beat it. you just have to become conscious this is like the, light and darkness business you don't. fight with the darkness that will be foolish compulsiveness is an expression of lack of consciousness, don't have to fight it if you become more conscious. compulsive patterns will just disappear, it is like if you turn on the lights. darkness is gone you don't have to fight. with it if you fight with darkness. you are on an endless fight . you.