When you checked into your Detox and Recovery center, your mind and body were exhausted from the constant pain and suffering that you were experiencing, and you had no choice but to surrender, to humble yourself, and ask for help, both medically for your physical pain and psychologically for the past mental traumas that may be causing your addictions. Once you were out of physical pain and healing your body, and the fog of your addictions began to lift, you started seeing yourself and the world differently. With a calmer, more sober perspective, you were finally ready to start learning how to live a less painful, less chaotic lifestyle.

As Alumni, we have all been where you are now, no matter your current plan or no-plan plan, trying to avoid future pain and suffering. We all had to find a sober way to bear the pain and be mentally calm enough so we could stay in Recovery, to understand that sober living in a safe place with unconditional Love and support was better than the way we had been living in addiction. We started learning that if we can stay safe and emotionally supported, we might have a chance to remain sober and minimize the physical pain and mental suffering we have to endure going forward.

That understanding was the beginning of the building phase of our Recovery Plan: organizing the resources we have, or that we need to find, to sustain a safe place to live, where we can minimize our physical pain and discomfort, and find the emotional support, based on unconditional Love, that will enable us to freely express the Love flowing through us. And by allowing Love to flow through our bodies, without blocking it with the past experiences hardwired into our brains, we can heal childhood traumas and the physical and mental scars we have collected along the way. So we can finally let go of the past—beneath our addictions.

But here’s the catch: we have to accept the truth that there is no magic place, no human being or spiritual entity, no special medicine, or substance of any kind, outside of us, that can change your past—we are stuck with the trauma and scars hard-wired into our brain and body. Nothing can change our past, but we can heal the past—Now—by letting the constant Love energy that effortlessly makes our heart beat, and our lungs breathe flow through us, without being distorted in our conditioned mind, which can bring healing to our past emotions as they arise, and the same unrestricted Love energy we project can be reflected in the world of Loving-kindness we create around us.

So, the topic tonight is: what resources have you identified in your life, or what assistance do you feel you need, to ensure a safe place and the emotional support to help you stay sober when you leave this Recovery bubble; so you can begin doing the personal work required to uncover and heal your past traumas, and the physical and mental scars that may be the cause of your addictions. By staying sober, you create new brain-wiring of awareness that keeps your old wiring from firing, until your addictions go dormant and the Light of Awareness exposes your past to the flow of healing, compassionate Love energy.              

VAB  04-02-26

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