Congratulations! You’ve stopped using your drug(s) of choice, for whatever length of time it has been now. How does it feel? Are you done suffering, or are you still struggling with cravings: endless thoughts of how to escape your inner suffering; memories of being unloved; feelings of past trauma that are still circulating in your nervous system; or physical injuries to your ego body-mind? Is the pain and suffering over, or are you just ignoring it? Have you healed your past enough to accept that you can’t change it, so it no longer triggers your addiction(s)?

Unfortunately, for many, stopping our harmful indulgences is the illusion that our addiction(s) are over, that we have found the answer, unlocked our higher power, and outsmarted our physical and mental survival techniques to avoid the pain and suffering and gain relief. But for most, this ends up being a short-lived attempt to fight off our inevitable relapse into addiction, because what is truly ailing us within has yet to be addressed, let alone healed!

So, the Truth of relapse is understanding that quitting alone can not stop our cravings to end suffering by escaping; stopping does not erase memories of being unloved; stopping does not flush out the imbalanced chemical hormones from our traumatized nervous systems; stopping does not rebuild our physical wounds or erase the mental scars…

Only healing our past, in the present moment, can end our suffering—now! Realizing that hitting bottom in our addictions was a wake-up call; that the survival techniques we adopted to divorce our ego identity from the dysfunctional relationship with past pain and suffering are doing more harm than good—now; and that relapses are another attempt by our true spiritual Self-awareness to remind us it is time to Wake Up and understand the Truth: that our original innocence of loving-kindness was never broken, that we are and will always be loved, that we are Love: we are the expression of the inexhaustable Life energy source—Love—no matter what this temporary illusory world reigns down on us!!

This seemingly simple understanding of our never-changing, original innocence—radiating loving-kindness—is enough to erase our past in the present moment. Because we have awakened to know that our true Self exists only in the present moment—for in reality, that is all there ever is!

Everything else is a temporary illusion we manifest in this game of overcoming worldly suffering with only the Love energy we radiate during our brief existence. This is the paradox of the Human Condition: all of us, as One, experiencing the Godly consciousness of Being—eternal spiritual awareness observing the temporary pain and suffering of a manifested body-mind—until we awaken. We are here only to remember our divinity—and try our best to enjoy the show by radiating Love energy, no matter what happens!

The time to Wake-Up is always Now!

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