I would say the behavior around drug use, the addiction, is the very thing that gets in the way of IMing. Because it's said if you are desiring something and doing some IM exercise - if that carries that same feeling of being an addict - then the vibe is of grasping and attachment and really wanting something and needing it badly to feel whole.
That addictions have the mind set of wanting something because one doesn't feel complete. Addictions are ways to try to feel whole. And then some find LoA and approach it this way too - that it is what will make one feel whole. Well, one of the precepts for IM is to feel whole already with gratitude. If one is wrapped up in addictions, how does one feel whole?
The LoA stuff talks about asking as being a state of feeling already complete. Doing something with a feeling of lack in the vibe does not actually cause a manifestation of filling in this lack. So they say...
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