In Addiction Recovery-Mindfulness, we choose to seek to be mindful of ALL our life.Recovery-Mindfulness is a skill you can develop.Recovery-Mindfulness makes our wholeness and overcoming addiction possible.Recovery-Mindfulness fills our need of an effective method for cultivating being mindful in our everyday life. Mindfulness is not just a Sunday thing. Addiction doesn’t take a holiday. Recovery is every day. For everyday, we include an inclusive review of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work, ‘Heal Thy Self.” Our anguish, our pain, our addiction arises from our desires. Desire is the mother of pain, and of addiction. We seek “existential wholeness.” We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. And this human condition, so painful to us, and in some ways shameful---is because we feel we are weak. Yet, our condition is made much more bearable, when it is shared, face to face. When we can share heart to heart with another, others, some wholeness returns. Recovery-Mindfulness is intrinsic, universal, and transformative.“It is nourishing awareness. The practice ranges far and wide and deep within our psyche and our heart. It is a liberative practice, it calls us to face and honor the root causes of our individual and collective anguish.Nourishing awareness asks us to recognize our sufferings and to observe them carefully as they work on us.” We must be willing to observe what actually moves us. We must learn the root meaning of emotion; we learn to stand inside our feelings. These ways allow us to tap their powers to teach and to heal. They catalyze our emotional growth. Not simply to react and be chronically overwhelmed and imprisoned. We can recover. Recovery-Mindfulness tells us we are guests in our own house.This being human is a guest-house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes, as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house, empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honorably, he may be cleaning you out, for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, Because each has been sent, As a guide from beyond. But, most of all: Be Here Now. The degree to which we reclaim our reservoir of inner strength in the face of sickness, pain, and addiction is the degree to which, despite our condition, we have the opportunity to touch our wholeness. Our Addiction Recovery is within our power. Mindful Meditation practice requires disciplined, sustained effort. We may not like what we see. Different and more there than we expected. “Awareness of our breath is an effective, ever-available means of cultivating presence. How shall we begin?” Find a comfortable place to sit down. Comfortable is good. Pay attention to your breath. Follow it. There are numerous breath meditations, you will find yours. Recovery-Mindfulness knows we can show up, and pay attention.We can tell the truth, without judgment or blame. No shame. We are not attached to outcome.Things are what they are. We let them be. If we don’t turn our heads from a full look at our addiction, then, if nothing more, we are mindful. Simply dwelling in the breath, as you look into the mirror of your life. Bringing the heart-mind to this moment. To live in this world You must be able To do three things To love what is mortal; To hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; And, when the time comes to let go,To let it go. Recovery from any addictive involvement can mean Letting Go Recovery-Mindfulness is enriched by meditation. Weight Loss Tips: Secrets to Diet Success.Most of us have have several personal dieting stories we can tell. Do you have a great story about weight loss? Diet or weight loss Success? Share it! What Other Visitors Have SaidClick below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
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