Developing Good Recovery Habits
Okay, time to learn something new. The theory of The Great nest of being adapted several times by dozens of philosophers takes us deeper into the realms of consciousness that exists. We have all heard of the distinctions between body, mind and spirit, but these of course do go much deeper. In Ken Wilbur’s profound work on Integral psychology he outlines some of the connections in the great nest of being. Perhaps these apply enough to our Recovery Habits to learn something new.
They are outlined as five divisions, that lead outward and into one another, namely; from physics and matter, secondly into biology and life then psychology and mind, into theology and soul and then mysticism and spirit. This is one of the simpler and clearer structures of the levels of consciousness that exist. But this is the good bit – One is mutually inclusive of the other, we cannot function one without the other, and indeed we were not meant to.
Spirit is causal or underlying in consciousness. Habits in origin, may be quite similar. It is in fact central to it. So they way we function and operate, often out of habit, means that what we do each day runs pretty much like a computer programme. We get hardwired to download whatever it is we have unconsciously and consciously uploaded into reality. Do this often enough, day in and day out it becomes a habit. in fact a Recovery Habits. So how do we begin Developing Good Recovery Habits ?
Begin to fathom that whatever you think about and ask for is given to you unquestionably and abundantly without cost. So, it’s important to choose your Higher Power carefully. You ask with every thought you generate. Understand that we ask on a series of levels consciously, pre-consciously and unconsciously. All are answered unequivocally. What you put out there comes back to you and as you begin to comprehend this you will begin to understand that you are powerful being with the opportunity to use this powerful to alter your very life, each and every moment of it.
From now on you will begin to understand that whatever you ask for will be given to you. Effort and faith are essential to addiction recovery in the long term. So ask, Sobriety or drunkenness? Health or disorder? You will become aware of what you are actually asking for in those thousands of thoughts that swirl around in neurological cyberspace. Your potential is merely a conscious decision. Yes, you do get what you ultimately ask for.
DEVELOPING GOOD RECOVERY HABITS THAT LAST
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood”. Wayne Dyer.
The first thing we need to do is break all the strongholds from your addiction that are hindering your progress, your illumination. You don’t need to doubt yourself, or your capabilities even though you may have made a habit of it I the past.
Let go of your past by consciously and purposefully making an effort to let go. Just for Today, you are completely and utterly free, realize this. You are bound as a slave only by your own perceptions and the baggage of the unforgiveness of others and more importantly yourself.
As we create the maps, or recovery habits, of our lives we tend to put up walls up in response to external environmental stimuli. We do the best we can at the time and walls are often the result of our efforts, where we didn’t quite finish off what we had to. Wherever we have left things unfinished or when things have become too much we place a wall up and try and move on, hoping that we can just skip through parts of life. We’ve all been doing this since a damn young age.
Life is cyclic and progressive, what goes around comes around, and these walls show up again sooner or later and cosmically insist that we deal with them before we move on. When we give into them and self medicate with drugs, food or anything else for that matter, we stop.
Like a runner jumping over hurdles on a track as she runs around to complete a lap, so are our walls hurdles that we will circle around to face again until they have been consciously made redundant.
Thankfully however we can however go back to childhood hurts as adults even, more educated, more prepared and better equipped to tear down these barriers and reroute our minds more effectively. By looking at the things that come into our paths as we progress rather as hurdles than walls we don’t inflate our challenges into problems, just like addiction is progressive, and we don’t make mountains out of mole hills.
It does not matter what age you are or where you come from, we all came from the same source originally. You came here to get it right, to do well and be happy and you’re as entitled to have everything you have ever dreamed of as anyone else. You are entitled to let your past go if you choose too, or if you need to, to ensure you move onward and upward. You must start your education realizing that everything is a process.
It is important that you develop good habits with your thoughts if you want good habits in your behavior. Don’t let your thoughts run wild anymore, you have the power to choose them!
You have the power to choose whether they are positive or negative, powerful or weak and useless. You can choose whether they make you happy or miserable. So do just that – choose to be happy, choose life. Delete, scrub out, obliterate the gloom and dread from your addictive mindset by simply acknowledging and admitting they exist and then letting the redundant lot go. They do you no good and will not help you to grow and actualize your true potential.
We have to remember that this is a process, just like the Steps. It is going to take practice as well as patience to master it.