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Setting boundaries may be the best cure for codependency. What human beings don't seem to realize is the most rampant disease on the planet is codependence. It is the greatest addiction. The number one addiction. Even though all addictions really have the same genesis, codependence is the most rampant. And it's because it has the same definition as all the other addictions, which is this. And notice the similarity of spiritual teachings throughout the world from various teachers, notice how teachings connect here.

Human beings believe that they are separate from God and from each other. And this creates a sense of emptiness inside. That emptiness is going to need to be dealt with in some way.

Our emptiness becomes either anxiousness or depression. We feel this emptiness. We feel off. We feel something, and then we start to feel anxious or depressed.

If we feel anxious, we're going to need to be sedated. If we start to feel depressed, we need to feel stimulated. So everybody's looking for some form of that.

The problem is, we feel empty. We reach out for something to fill the emptiness. Nothing fills the emptiness, so we go and try it again. That's addiction. As soon as you try to fix something using a synthetic, not just synthetic chemically, synthetic meaning outside of ourselves, you're in a cycle. You're in a pattern, and it's endless, because one needs to feed the other.

As soon as I feel empty and I try something and it doesn't fill me. OH MY GOD I'M DESPERATE. I'm even more empty and more desperate. I need it. I need even more of it. And there you go, off into addictions. But not all of us choose drugs or alcohol or food or whatever. What we tend to not realize is our relationships are absolutely riddled with and rampant, filled with this same problem, this emptiness.

And what it's called is codependence. Codependence means I have become dependent. I'm drug dependent. I'm alcohol dependent. I'm food dependent. I'm people dependent. And more people are people dependent than any other addiction.

What does it mean to be people dependent? It means, "I have forgotten who I am. I feel an emptiness inside, and I really would appreciate it if you, anyone, anything outside of me, not just people. Anything outside of me would make me feel different. I feel down, pick me up. I feel up, take me down a bit. Or as relationships go, you make me feel so wonderful. Or you are the blame of me not feeling wonderful." See, that's all codependent, because it's not interdependent. It's not responsible. It's reactive to things on the outside.

So think of it that way. Codependence is like that. We think we're empty, and then we start reacting to and becoming dependent upon people. If people don't like us, it's depressing. If people are upset with us, that's anxiety creating. So we become very neurotic. We become very reactive and neurotic. We have to react. We have to fill this void somehow. We become hyperanxious and trying to fix everything. Because it's off. The problem is, we keep thinking everyone outside, or everything outside is what's making us feel off.

Responsibility takes it the other direction. So we're feeling off. We're feeling disconnected from each other, from love, from God. We're feeling disconnected from answers, solutions, healings.

Where am I going to get this? In a way, science is right that sometimes religion is almost a form of a spiritual or mental aspirin to deal with pain. And then they scoff, and say it's all a joke. It's all false. and they think there's nothing to it. because they are missing something too.

They're missing God. and the religions are missing God all too often. even though they talk about God. Often they don't know how to create the solution, which is to be filled with the presence of God.

And as I'm filled with the presence of God, I start to be filled with the presence of me, myself. I'm here. I'm awake, and anything that happens, I'm aware that it's my doing. It's a reflection of my experience inside, and that's when we start to wake up and show up again. We become responsible.

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