Everything is in the NOW. Whatever we experience we experience it as happening at this present moment. Even our memories we experience in the present. Now, this moment.
Our consciousness is here and now.
So how free is the person who is addicted
We clearly experience ourselves as beings who have choice, we have a sense of agency. The conscious experience of someone who acts.
We own ourselves. So maybe we can feed our brain/mind the good, useful stuff. No false information knowingly, no illusions.
We may even with effort and mindful meditation be able to let go our UFOs. Our Unrealistic Expectations, Our False Assumptions, and Our Obsolete Relationships
We can input our affirmations of sober intent, our prayers of Intended recovery actions. We can consciously help select the addiction recovery data for our minds.
We can help our brains stay on track.
Feed your mind the good stuff. The truth. The real facts, not addictive illusions. We can with conscious deliberation let-go our addiction and the anguish from which it sprang. We can consciously choose addiction recovery.
We humans have a deep, inbuilt longing for fulfillment, an itch that seems hard to scratch. It is the seed of our subjective suffering.
Our anguish. We bounce from one addiction to another. We fail to realize: