The idea of our will often can be seen as what we hold onto, almost for dear life.  This is because it was about our life and how we dealt with it, the decisions we made that we may not even be aware of it.  Sometimes when working I see the will as the “Tasmanian Devil ” in people, they will hang on in there with incredible will and force.  I do see it as endearing and from a place of child, the rather stubborn and resistant and adamant.  However, at times “this will” has not served people well and can even be self destructive.  In addiction this is certainly the case as addicts hold onto old scripts, beliefs, feelings, grudges, judgement and anger etc etc. Like their life depended on it.  By the time they come to rehabilitation their life depends on them  letting ” the will” go.  What was once believed served the addict well in serving ones needs in behaviours and substance really must go  to survive.