Spiritual Freedom From Your Addictions Today

As human beings, we seem to be on a very destructive course that is headed towards destroying our family, society, and ourselves. If we continue on this path of addictive living and self-destructiveness, the outcome is immanent.

So, you cannot sit by in complacency as if all is well. Selfish living affects everyone. If you continue to destroy yourself through addictive living, you destroy us all. Unknowingly, you are bringing destructiveness to this beautiful earth.

To understand this is not an attempt to instill fear but the awareness of your actions having consequences. Is it not obvious what you are doing to yourself? Why are you carrying on with such a disparaging way of living?

Clearly, the mind fell into addiction because it was caught unaware. Now you are just going to correct that fact by being aware. In awareness, there is freedom from all addictions. When you are completely free, life is no longer a problem. Do you not see how simple that is?

To live your life in addiction is not living. To be addictive is to live a mechanical life without passion. To be trapped in any addiction is against your health. The repetition of such acts destroys your life. To live spiritually free is to live, vibrantly. So let us see if you can perceive the facts of all addictions and not try to escape from them.

Now, to go into this, is to inquire into the purpose of experience. Does experience have any meaning at all? All such actions become recorded as memory and from there you continue the same old things, addictively. So any experience that gives us the sensation of pleasure, no matter how destructive, the addiction wants it to continue.

Realize that addiction comes into being through inattentiveness. The mind being caught off guard becomes a slave to a particular thing. The attempt to be free of addiction, the very desire of trying to resist it causes it to persist. All such actions generate more energy for it to continue. So, through the wholeness of seeing the addiction without any desires of resisting it is the key to transcend it.

Therefore, the addiction to anything such as drinking or drugs brings you into mental slavery. To be a slave to anything is destructive. In such living, you are being destroyed. To be free of such living is the outcome of seeing yourself, spiritually whole.

To see the destructive nature of your addictions is a movement of intelligence. Realize that, all such addictions are conditional. Inattentiveness plants the seed of continuity the more you let an addiction grow in your life. The more it germinates in you, the greater it becomes.

Spiritually, all addictions in your life must be faced head on without the slightest intent of looking away. You must observe every aspect of your mind and heart. Every thought and every emotion has to be brought to the surface so one may face them, completely.

Spiritual understanding is the art of having no desire of removing the addiction but simply observe it with the wholeness of your being. With the totality of perception, you may observe, listen, and feel whatever is there in consciousness. It is the spiritual fire of perception that will free you so all addictions may cease corroding your life.

Will you let this take place within you?

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The TWELVE STEPS As I See Them Today

Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable

At the time of my traffic stop I remember the surrender to the officer that I had been drinking. I believe I knew my fate at that moment and thought at last the time had come to stop the madness

Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

The law is definitely a higher power this would serve the purpose for now

Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God

The lawyer and all the therapy consultants I saw over the next few months helped to make all the relevant decisions in order to redirect my life for the next few months I do not believe in GOD per say

Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

Professional analysts prepared a defense for my case and after many consultations my story was put together for the judge or higher power to see

Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs

Agreed to a plea bargain with the judge, the prosecution, and of course the defense and myself. We were all in agreement

Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character

The judge agreed on a sentence including a 12 month suspension, 12 month probation, and to complete the 12 step program, surely while serving my penance within the confines of the 12 everything's I might even find 12 defects. A good number 12, I hope Tom Hanks can get a conspiracy movie out of it like angels and demons.

Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings

Asked the judge for leniency with the plea bargain and to understand that I might change my ways with help from the program.

Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all

I had already started doing this step before the incident maybe some preconceived knowledge of the events, the end is nigh, tempting fate, written in the tea leaves and all that sort of stuff. I knew my destiny. Nicolas Cage would like this plot for a movie maybe

Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others

In my case long distance apologies are my only option and judging by the fact that I have gotten a response I think I am on the right road.

Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it

Attending meetings everyday listening to all the suggestions and readings and applying it to my new lifestyle where applicable.

Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out

I don't believe in GOD! However I have been inspired by the beach meetings, seeing the sunrise on every Saturday Sunday morning. This has given me a new consciousness. In fact I am coming to the belief that my conscience maybe the higher power that I need to answer too. I now seem to be questioning myself on a regular basis with every issue of goodwill to all others and my tardiness, laziness personal cleanliness and general anal retentiveness. I see the laziness in myself and others as a real source to the problems we all have, I find links to every problem we talk about in the meetings, in the news, on the web in the world. Never mind the drugs and drink let's all get busy so we don't get the time to indulge in these problem pastimes.

Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

If anyone agrees with these ideas or has any input please let me know? This is my interpretation and only applies to me. I realize this might not be for everyone else or in fact anyone else.

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