Speaker 1: There's a truth about addiction that most people never hear.
Speaker 1: One secret that can set you free if you let it.
Speaker 1: But you'll only find it if you watch until the
Speaker 1: very end. Don't look away, because missing this might mean
Speaker 1: staying trapped forever. You probably don't realize how much of
Speaker 1: your life is shaped by battles you can't see. Addiction
Speaker 1: is more than cigarettes, alcohol, food, or scrolling your phone
Speaker 1: late at night. It's the ancient war inside you, a
Speaker 1: battle between what you want and what you truly need,
Speaker 1: between comfort and courage, between the shadow and the self.
Speaker 1: Carl Jung saw addiction not as weakness, but as a symptom,
Speaker 1: a message from the soul. People will do anything, no
Speaker 1: matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. He wrote,
Speaker 1: it's not laziness or lack of will power that traps you.
Speaker 1: It's the fear of meeting your real self in the dark.
Speaker 1: Imagine you're alone in your room. The world is asleep.
Speaker 1: You feel the itch, a quiet pull towards something that
Speaker 1: promises to make the pain go away. You know it
Speaker 1: won't last, but for a moment, you just want relief.
Speaker 1: You light the cigarette, you open the app, you pour
Speaker 1: the drink, You lose yourself for a little while, hoping
Speaker 1: you can forget what you're trying so hard not to feel.
Speaker 1: But after the high, there's the crash, the shame, the
Speaker 1: silent promise to never do it again, the question why
Speaker 1: do I I keep doing this even when I know
Speaker 1: how it ends. Most people see cravings as enemies, monsters
Speaker 1: to be slain or hidden away, but Jung's philosophy turns
Speaker 1: everything upside down. He believed that every urge, every compulsion,
Speaker 1: is a messenger, a part of your mind trying to
Speaker 1: speak a truth that your waking self has refused to hear.
Speaker 1: Think about it. If you were perfectly content, perfectly whole,
Speaker 1: what would you need to numb, what would you need
Speaker 1: to escape? Cravings are the language of the soul's pain.
Speaker 1: Addiction isn't just about chemicals or habits. It's about what's
Speaker 1: missing in your life. It's not a battle of strength,
Speaker 1: it's a puzzle of meaning. This is why so many fail.
Speaker 1: They focus on discipline, but never ask, what is this
Speaker 1: urge trying to tell me? What part of me? Have
Speaker 1: I locked away in the basement hoping it will disappear.
Speaker 1: In Jung's psychology, the shadow is everything You've rejected everything,
Speaker 1: You've denied everything, you're ashamed to admit, even to yourself.
Speaker 1: The more you hide your shadow, the more powerful it grows.
Speaker 1: Addiction is the shadow's favorite disguise. It shows up as comfort,
Speaker 1: but it feeds on your silence. You think, I just
Speaker 1: want to relax, I just want to feel good. I
Speaker 1: just want to stop thinking for a while. But underneath
Speaker 1: the shadow whispers You're not enough, You're alone. You'll never change.
Speaker 1: Every addiction is a mask for pain. Most people spend
Speaker 1: their lives rearranging the mask, never realizing that the real
Speaker 1: transformation only begins when you dare to look beneath it.
Speaker 1: We live in a culture obsessed with self control. Just
Speaker 1: say no, be strong. But if that worked, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be here. Young would say. The shadow is not defeated
Speaker 1: by force. It is only transformed by attention. Imagine trying
Speaker 1: to push a beach ball under water. The harder you press,
Speaker 1: the more it fights back. This is how most people live, suppressing, denying, fighting. Eventually,
Speaker 1: the beach ball explodes to the surface stronger than before.
Speaker 1: You can't white knuckle your way out forever. The craving
Speaker 1: always returns. The real question isn't how to suppress it,
Speaker 1: but how to understand it. Here is where things change.
Speaker 1: The next time you feel the urge, don't run, don't fight,
Speaker 1: Just notice, pause and ask what am I really looking
Speaker 1: for right now? Is it comfort? Is it distraction? Is
Speaker 1: it love? This is the beginning of self mastery. Observing
Speaker 1: the craving, not becoming the craving. You may notice a
Speaker 1: story running in your mind. Maybe it's fear or loneliness,
Speaker 1: or a sense that you're missing out. Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: voice that says you'll never be free. But as you notice,
Speaker 1: you create a gap, a space where you can choose.
Speaker 1: Most people never get this far. They are too busy,
Speaker 1: too numb, too scared. They would rather stay in the
Speaker 1: dark than risk seeing what's hidden there. But you, right
Speaker 1: now have already begun the journey, because curiosity is the
Speaker 1: first act of rebellion against addiction's power. Young believed every addiction,
Speaker 1: every shadow, is an invitation. If you listen closely, your
Speaker 1: craving is asking what have you refused to feel? What
Speaker 1: part of you needs to be heard, healed, or welcomed home.
Speaker 1: Healing doesn't start by declaring war on yourself. It starts
Speaker 1: by making peace with your own wounds, your own longing,
Speaker 1: your own forgotten dreams. Most will never do this, they'll fight, fail, blame,
Speaker 1: and repeat. But those who stay, those who dare to
Speaker 1: ask deeper questions, find something far more valuable than relief.
Speaker 1: They find themselves. This video isn't about a miracle cure.
Speaker 1: It's about a mirror, one that shows you the parts
Speaker 1: you've avoided. If you can face them, even for a moment,
Speaker 1: you can begin to write a new story. Stay with me,
Speaker 1: because in the next part we go deeper into the
Speaker 1: real method Jung used to help people like you finally
Speaker 1: break the cycle, and at the end you'll discover the
Speaker 1: hidden truth that can make all the difference if you're
Speaker 1: willing to see it. Don't let your shadow win by
Speaker 1: clicking away. The breakthrough is closer than you think. If
Speaker 1: you made it this far, you're already different. Most people
Speaker 1: spend their entire lives running from discomfort, never stopping to
Speaker 1: ask what's really pulling the strings behind their cravings. You're
Speaker 1: called this state possession. When a force inside you acts
Speaker 1: as if it's in control and you're just along for
Speaker 1: the ride. You say, I don't want to do this,
Speaker 1: but your hands your mind, your habits move anyway. It's
Speaker 1: as if you become a stranger in your own skin.
Speaker 1: Think about it, how many times have you promised yourself
Speaker 1: never again, only to find yourself circling back to the
Speaker 1: same habit, as if pulled by an invisible tide. The
Speaker 1: philosopher Epictetus once wrote, no person is free who is
Speaker 1: not master of themselves. But Jung's genius was to show
Speaker 1: that self mastery isn't about fighting the tide. It's about
Speaker 1: learning to read the currents underneath. Addiction isn't just an action.
Speaker 1: It's a ritual, a script you perform when you feel lost, lonely,
Speaker 1: or overwhelmed. But here's the secret most never learn. Every
Speaker 1: ritual holds meaning. Every habit is a clue. You don't
Speaker 1: crave the cigarette, or the drink or the endless scroll
Speaker 1: for no reason. Each time, there's a trigger, an event,
Speaker 1: a feeling, a thought that makes the world feel too
Speaker 1: much or too little. May be its stress after work,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the silence before sleep. May be it's seeing
Speaker 1: some one else succeed while you feel left behind. The
Speaker 1: craving arrives not as a command, but as a comfort.
Speaker 1: It whispers, let's not feel this right now, let's forget,
Speaker 1: let's disappear. But what if, just for a moment, you
Speaker 1: didn't run. What if you turned around and faced the
Speaker 1: craving as young would, and asked, why are you here?
Speaker 1: The answer might surprise you. Maybe it's not about the
Speaker 1: thing itself, but the feeling you're trying to avoid. Maybe
Speaker 1: its loneliness. Maybe it's fear of not being enough. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's the echo of a childhood wound still unhealed. Philosophy
Speaker 1: teaches us to ask questions even when the answers hurt.
Speaker 1: Psychology gives us the courage to sit with discomfort until
Speaker 1: it tells us what we need to know. You've heard
Speaker 1: it a thousand times. Be disciplined, use will power, But
Speaker 1: no one tells you the real secret. Will power is exhaustible.
Speaker 1: Every time you resist, you're drawing from a well that
Speaker 1: eventually runs dry. When you're tired, stressed, or overwhelmed, the
Speaker 1: well empties, and the old pattern returns. Jung compared the
Speaker 1: un conscious to a vast ocean. Your conscious will is
Speaker 1: a small boat. If you only focus on rowing harder,
Speaker 1: you'll get nowhere. But if you learn to read the waves,
Speaker 1: if you know what storms are coming. You can navigate
Speaker 1: with far less struggle. This is the real skill, learning
Speaker 1: to notice your patterns without judging them, to see the
Speaker 1: craving not as failure, but as information, information about what's missing,
Speaker 1: information about what you truly want. Jung believed in the
Speaker 1: magic of names. What you can name, you can tame.
Speaker 1: Next time the urge arises, instead of tightening up, pause
Speaker 1: and name it. This is anxiety, This is loneliness. This
Speaker 1: is the part of me that wants to be soothed.
Speaker 1: It may sound simple, even silly, but the act of
Speaker 1: naming pulls the craving out of the shadows and into
Speaker 1: the light. The more clearly you see it, the less
Speaker 1: power it has over you. When you can say, I
Speaker 1: know why you're here, you begin to change the story.
Speaker 1: Here is where philosophy and psychology meet. The goal isn't
Speaker 1: to destroy the craving, but to integrate the lost part
Speaker 1: of yourself that's using the craving to cry for help.
Speaker 1: Jung wrote, the most terrifying thing is to accept one's
Speaker 1: self completely. To accept the craving not as the enemy
Speaker 1: but as the voice of a wounded part is to
Speaker 1: begin healing for real. How do you do this start
Speaker 1: with honesty. When you feel the urge, don't distract yourself,
Speaker 1: don't beerate yourself. Instead ask what am I avoiding? What
Speaker 1: pain have I refused to feel? What hope did I
Speaker 1: give up on long ago? You might feel fear, sadness,
Speaker 1: or even anger. That's okay. Most people turn back at
Speaker 1: this point, they tell themselves it's too much. But every
Speaker 1: time you face your shadow, you take back a little
Speaker 1: more of your power. You won't be free in a day,
Speaker 1: but every time you bring awareness to your cravings, you
Speaker 1: loosen the chains. Every moment of curiosity is a victory
Speaker 1: over the old script. Philosophy asks us to endure the
Speaker 1: discomfort of not knowing, of sitting in the unknown, and
Speaker 1: trusting that something new will emerge. Jung's psychology is an
Speaker 1: invitation to patience. Change doesn't happen all at once, but
Speaker 1: each ACKed of awareness, each honest question, plants a seed
Speaker 1: for the future. As you learn to listen, not run,
Speaker 1: not numb, not distract, you start to discover a new
Speaker 1: voice inside, a wiser voice, one that doesn't need to
Speaker 1: shout or threaten, one that says, I see you, I
Speaker 1: know you're hurting, but you don't need to escape any more.
Speaker 1: You can stay. This is the beginning of self trust.
Speaker 1: This is what Jung called individuation, the journey of becoming whole,
Speaker 1: not by cutting away the parts you don't like, but
Speaker 1: by welcoming them home. Most people will never know this feeling.
Speaker 1: They'll spend their lives chasing relief and missing the lesson.
Speaker 1: But you, by staying, are already on the path less traveled.
Speaker 1: You might not feel free yet. That's okay, But freedom
Speaker 1: isn't a moment. It's a process. It's the result of
Speaker 1: a thousand small acts of courage, a thousand moments of
Speaker 1: turning toward your pain, not away. The journey continues. In
Speaker 1: the next part. You'll learn the final step, how to
Speaker 1: use the energy of your cravings as fuel for transformation,
Speaker 1: not self destruction, And you'll discover the truth Jung reserved
Speaker 1: for his bravest students, a truth that turns addiction into
Speaker 1: a teacher, not a curse. Don't miss it, because the
Speaker 1: last lesson is the one that changes everything, the alchemy
Speaker 1: of craving. You've made it here through the hard questions
Speaker 1: and the hidden rooms of your own mind. Most people
Speaker 1: would have clicked away by now, scared off by the discomfort,
Speaker 1: or by the fear that nothing can change. But you stayed.
Speaker 1: That already means something. It means you're not just searching
Speaker 1: for relief, You're searching for transformation. Karl Jung didn't believe
Speaker 1: in short cuts. He believed in alchemy. He saw life
Speaker 1: as a process of turning lead into gold, not by
Speaker 1: throwing away what's dark or heavy, but by melting it down,
Speaker 1: understanding it, and allowing it to be changed by your awareness.
Speaker 1: Think about the urge, the craving, the pull toward your
Speaker 1: old habits. Every time it rises. It's like a spark
Speaker 1: full of energy, full of potential. Most people waste that
Speaker 1: energy by fighting it, running from it, numbing it, or
Speaker 1: shaming themselves for feeling it. But what if you learned
Speaker 1: to use that spark instead of trying to extinguish it.
Speaker 1: The alchemists believed that every poison can be turned into
Speaker 1: medicine if you know the secret. Jung believed your craving,
Speaker 1: your addiction, is the very material from which your new
Speaker 1: self can be forged, turning poison into power. It starts
Speaker 1: with a shift in attitude. Instead of asking how do
Speaker 1: I get rid of this feeling? Ask what can I
Speaker 1: learn from it, How can I use its energy? Craving
Speaker 1: is energy. It's the mind's way of saying something is missing,
Speaker 1: something needs to move. When you feel the urge, don't
Speaker 1: waste it. Channel it. If you're craving a cigarette, use
Speaker 1: that moment as a que to take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: to move your body, to write down your thoughts, to
Speaker 1: create something, even if it's just a single honest sentence
Speaker 1: of what you're feeling. This is the difference between unconscious
Speaker 1: repetition and conscious transformation. You can't always stop the urge
Speaker 1: from coming, but you can choose what you do with it.
Speaker 1: Over time, this practice rewires your relationship with yourself. Young
Speaker 1: noticed that people who escaped addiction didn't just quit. They
Speaker 1: replaced one ritual with another, one pattern with something more meaningful.
Speaker 1: You need new rituals, new ways to use the energy
Speaker 1: that used to fuel your cravings. If you always reached
Speaker 1: for your habit in times of stress, try pausing and
Speaker 1: feeling the ground under your feet instead. If you used
Speaker 1: to numb your mind before sleep, try journaling the one
Speaker 1: truth you're most afraid of admitting. If you want to
Speaker 1: run from discomfort, try moving toward it. For sixty seconds,
Speaker 1: naming it, breathing through it, and letting yourself feel it fully.
Speaker 1: Small rituals done with awareness are the tools of transformation
Speaker 1: from shadow to self. Young believed the purpose of life
Speaker 1: is individuation, the process of becoming whole by integrating all
Speaker 1: the lost, rejected, or feared parts of yourself. Addiction shows
Speaker 1: you where your wounds are, but also where your greatest
Speaker 1: energy lives. The shadow isn't your enemy, it's your guide
Speaker 1: to your own hidden potential. Every time you pause and
Speaker 1: face your craving, you reclaim a little more of your power.
Speaker 1: You become less divided, more unified, more yourself, and slowly
Speaker 1: your identity changes. You're no longer the addict, the lost cause,
Speaker 1: the one who can't change. You become the observer, the chooser,
Speaker 1: the alchemist, someone who can hold pain, longing, and even
Speaker 1: fear and still move forward with purpose, a new identity.
Speaker 1: You might wonder, how do I know if I'm really changing?
Speaker 1: The answer isn't dramatic. It's quiet. You notice that the
Speaker 1: voice of shame gets softer. You notice you don't need
Speaker 1: to hide from yourself as much. You catch yourself pausing, reflecting,
Speaker 1: choosing just once and then again. You begin to trust yourself,
Speaker 1: and that trust grows one small act at a time.
Speaker 1: Most people measure change in big victories or clean streaks,
Speaker 1: but real transformation, Young believed, is measured by your willingness
Speaker 1: to show up honestly for yourself, day after day, no
Speaker 1: matter what the hidden reward. Here's the payoff most never expect.
Speaker 1: The journey through addiction is not just about quitting a habit.
Speaker 1: It's about discovering a new relationship with yourself. You start
Speaker 1: to realize that you're stronger than you thought, wiser than
Speaker 1: you believed, and more capable of holding discomfort than you
Speaker 1: ever imagined. You stop seeing yourself as broken. You start
Speaker 1: seeing yourself as brave. Jung wrote, I am not what
Speaker 1: happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
Speaker 1: That's your truth now, too. One last challenge. If you've
Speaker 1: watched until the end, you've already proven you're not like most.
Speaker 1: You're ready to meet your cravings with curiosity, your shadow,
Speaker 1: with compassion, your wounds with the willingness to heal. So
Speaker 1: here's the final step. Every time the urge returns you
Speaker 1: as a bell, a reminder to check in with your
Speaker 1: deepest self. Ask what do I truly need right now?
Speaker 1: What does your soul hunger for connection? Truth, meaning rest?
Speaker 1: Find a small, honest way to give it to yourself.
Speaker 1: Every time you do, you weaken the old pattern and
Speaker 1: strengthen the new. Addiction wants you to believe you're stuck
Speaker 1: for ever. That's the lie. The truth is you are
Speaker 1: changing every day, and every small act of awareness is
Speaker 1: a victory. You don't have to be perfect, You only
Speaker 1: have to keep showing up.