Pattern

Process through which the needle of your consciousness moves again and again, stuck without progressing or feeling complete is “pattern”.

Examples

Why drinking alcohol becomes pattern, but drinking water is not becoming pattern? You drink both every day. In fact, you drink more water! Why drinking alcohol becomes pattern, but drinking water never becomes pattern? Because, drinking water gives you completion and you are not stuck. After drinking water, you are out of thirst, more energetic, you are not stuck in thirst, or you are not stuck in anything else; you move with your life. But unfortunately, all alcoholics are either stuck with elated mood, or belated mood, or depressed mood. It is the mood associated with alcohol, which makes you stuck, not alcohol itself. Please understand, when you drink alcohol, if you feel elated or belated, you wanted that mood again and again. Sometimes, even the self-sympathy, the victim mood, depression, you start enjoying even that! Else, you will not be having addictive pattern towards alcohol.

References

http://nithyananda.org/video/own-and-let-others-own#gsc.tab=0