Our need for survival went deeper than our basic instincts. Quite literally, addiction changes the operations of the midbrain, the section of the brain responsible for the operations of survival like eating. For many of us, addiction was a means of survival. Our addiction had a payoff, beyond the chemical production of pleasure in our brains. We can all learn from the yin yang philosophy and incorporate it into our recovery by first looking at our addiction through this lens. Confronting catastrophic, divided thinking is a journey many in recovery take. Addiction has a tendency to create an all or nothing mindset which can create issue in other areas of life during recovery. People in recovery who go to treatment learn a lot in their group therapy sessions, including different problematic thought patterns like black and white thinking.
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Everything in life has balance, something that addicts and alcoholics in recovery are constantly striving for. In the good there is bad and the bad there is good. The yin yang symbol represents the philosophy that life is incredibly non-dualistic, meaning there is a little bit of something in everything. There is nothing in the everything and there is everything in the nothing. There is everything and there is nothing. What you’re looking at is an entire philosophy of life. What you’re looking at is more than a symbol. Lastly, you see the cohesive whole, the entire circle with the black half, the white half, the black circle, and the white circle. Fourth, you see a small black circle within that white half. Third, you see the white half of a circle.
Second, you see a small white circle within that black half. When you look at a yin and yang symbol, you see five things.
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