Alcoholism and spiritual consequences.

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Alcoholism and spiritual consequences.

Alcohol gave me wings,

and then slowly took away my sky......

First the man takes a drink, then a drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man......

One of the primary differences between alcoholics and non alcoholics is that, non alcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals, and alcoholics change their goals, to meet their behaviors......

In this article I would like describe the negative effects of Alcohol and its spiritual consequences. Right from childhood, to date I have seen, the deadly effect of alcohol on an individual and their near and dear ones.

What is the primary reason for drinking? Psychologically it has been found, that fear, guilt, escaping from responsibility, broken relationships, loss of prestige, financial loss, death of a loved one, are some of the factors contributing to this state of drunkenness.

When Alcoholics drink, basically they are running away from themselves, and the society, they are unable to avoid the pain of facing hardships of life in any form depending on their circumstances. They feel that they have failed to take responsibilities or make amends for their mistakes, difficulties in marital life, or rejection in love affairs, ultimately resort to the bottle......

When in a state of drunken stupor, they  lose touch with reality, and live in a illusory world, totally disconnected from emotions, care, love and responsibility, they lose control over their mind and intellect, their emotions get clouded , speech is slurred, they go into a state where  it is impossible to interact with them, In some mild cases of alcoholism,  they give vent to their grief,  emotions like anger, hate, jealousy or other forbidden  feelings surfaces, in constant ramblings, and repeatedly  moving in circles, displaying the same emotions over and over again. Alcoholism exhibits a kind of an escape route for deep hidden emotions to surface......

Research has shown that alcoholism  leads to physical and mental deterioration,  alcohol is anaesthetic, numbs your brain, and toxic, destroys the brain cells,  physically the brain gets inflamed, it starts functioning imperfectly, case of excess consumption on regular basis, leads to loss of mental power, blurred vision, slurred speech, slips in memory, regular consumption in large quantity causes cancer of the stomach, kidney, gastritis, cirrhosis of the liver, altered behavior, leading to loss of appetite, panic attacks, shaking of the hands, tremors of  the body, depression,  irritability, mood swings, unkind behavior, selfishness, rising temper, and  dangerous flirting, which will affect the relationship an  individual has with his family , friends, lovers, and colleagues.......

Regular intake of alcohol has spiritually negative consequences, the energy field that surrounds our body, is responsible for protecting the body from negative energies, either astral, like evil spirits or demons. or, negative people. Regular consumption weakens this field around our body, they become weak and susceptible to emotions of others, hence individuals with stronger energy field can easily influence them, they slowly infiltrates into their  thoughts and feelings of the alcoholics, they will capture them emotionally, romantically, or resort to other vile means, in the name of love, or any other selfish motives for personal gain, they will imprison them mentally to do their bidding, and slowly drain them either emotionally or financially, like vampires preying  on  blood, for their survival......

During my childhood days, I came across people, who  in a state of alcoholism and drug addiction, did things which in their normal life  would have never dreamt off, my neighbor, a handsome religious soul, having a good job, a beautiful girlfriend, a happy go lucky nature, leading a good life, the only negative trait in his nature was that he loved drinking, which gradually increased daily, unable to handle his household work, he kept a cook, coming from a suspicious background, which he was sadly unaware, the cook slowly started influencing his personal life, to the extent she isolated him from his family and his girl friend,  and to the dismay of his family and  friends, he refused to let her go, she eventually started living around with him, and one day to the utter horror of everyone, he left his girlfriend to marry the cook, deeply dejected and in severe state of depression, his girl friend committed suicide, the whole sordid affair had tremendous impact on him emotionally and physically, unable to face society  and its terrible repercussions, he increased his consumption of alcohol, to escape reality, his drinking habit only  aggravated his health problem, eventually leading to his death, not only physically but spiritually too.......

 In my recent research, I came across that evil spirits take control of our body, mind and our soul, especially if our energy field has weakened, due  to poor diet, high level of stress, or any other reasons.

 One of the many reasons of demonic possession, is alcohol and drugs. In the astral region there are dark energies, and lost souls, who are unable to break their earth bound connections, for varied  reasons, they attach themselves, to people with weak energy field, they enter their body and capture their soul, so that they can feed on food, drugs, alcohol, enjoy  power, sex and revenge,  that they were addicted to before their death, they slowly  possess  the hapless victim  to the extent, that  they are hardly aware of what is happening to them or around them, resulting in personality changes and erratic unpredictable behavior.

This causes conflicts and strife’s with people around them,  to the extent society disowns them, ultimately, resulting in a gradual dissolution of their body, mind and soul......

There are cases of people who resort to alcohol, or drugs for spiritualism, strange but true, they believe if one drinks or take drugs it will trigger, a euphoric feelings, they will connect themselves to God, a kind of spiritual high, a sublime feeling , I would say that these feelings are temporal, a kind of synthetic happiness pervades their being,a kind of a floating in the clouds sensations, the world becomes a wonderful place, which keeps them in a state of bliss, this is a destructive way of seeking spiritual happiness, for a brief period, because these blissful, artificially induced feelings by external means do not  last for long, they destroy the body cells and lower the spiritual vibrations, the ultimate  truth will elude you, and true connection to God and spirituality will be lost, its literally a dead end......... 

One way to protect yourself is stay away from drug, alcohol, uninhibited flirting with negative people, promiscuous sexual behavior, the alcoholics have to be mindful and aware of the type of company they keep, because in many cases they are unable to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, they live in a surreal world, of mixed emotions, confused feelings, unable to judge themselves or others. They slowly move to the wrong directions, their life becomes murky, a total mess, were they eventually had to take personal responsibility for their own destruction, and their loved ones, unless a good Samaritan saves them........

I would like to make myself clear, on one point is that I am not against alcohol, only that it has to be taken in the right context, and in moderation, spiritual bliss is possible, in a balanced state of mind , when we resort to positive methods like, prayers, meditation. We can protect ourselves from dark negative energies, by visualizing a white light around ourselves, with positive affirmations, to the universe.......

                                                   -AMEN-