Understanding Addiction Addiction is a continued involvement with a substance or activity regardless of negative consequences associated with it. It originates in pleasure, but over time it is needed in order to make us feel normal. Some people who feel inferior use an addiction to try to overcome weaknesses, especially in times of increased stress or deep inner conflict. It is also essential to know that an addiction is psychological as well as physical. Some types of activities and substances that people have become addicted to include: work,exercise, overeating, under eating, dieting, shopping, cocaine, heroin, internet surfing, gambling, smoking and alcohol addiction. Addictions Are Karmic Some say addictions are genetic. Some say that it is formed from early childhood traumas and still others say that it is habitual. But the spiritual truth states the fact that addictions are karmic and karmas are strongly determined by planets. It is the effects of the planetary positioning in a