We Are Balanced When Love is Sacred to Us

What do sin and passion have in common? 

When I start to lose energy and my stress is suppressed it goes into my subconsciousness. 

I feel it as a very powerful negative emotion which I am not able to overcome.  I feel a need to compensate this by generating pleasure through drugs, alcohol, sex and shopping for example. These are various different stimulants which slow down the feeling of despondency, unresolved stress and depression to some extent.

 To put it simply : 

When we are good natured and we make sacrifices, when we have people in our lives to care for, when we periodically fast, when we can abstain in order for our instinctive energy to be transformed into love,  when love is sacred to us and we don’t humiliate love by excessive sexuality or by being cynical and so on, then we are balanced.