The twelve-step epiphany

THE RECOVERY SEEDS Balanced Lifestyle program learn to meditate, learn mindfulness. Meditation, contrary to popular opinion, is not about stopping thinking. You cannot stop thinking – to think about stopping thinking is thinking. Rather it is about being watchful of your thoughts. It is about watching your thoughts but not getting caught up in them. The more your practise – and you can start with just 10 mins a day, the more you will move out of the energy of doing and into the energy of being. The goal here is to do with the energy of being.

THE RECOVERY SEEDS Balanced Lifestyle program You cannot make heartfelt decisions based on what others think.

THE RECOVERY SEEDS Balanced Lifestyle program The spirit that Jesus embodies is not a safe spirit; there’s no guarantee of how it will all play out in your life. There’s only one guarantee that Jesus gave: if you can receive and awaken and embody what he is speaking about, then your life will never be the same again. Then you will realise that you’re already living in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Ten Stages Addiction reorganises the addict’s world and consumes their identity so that the person becomes unrecognisable to themselves and others. Since the truth is too painful to face, the addict constructs an alternate reality where drugs and alcohol aren’t a problem and the addict is doing exactly what other people want and hope for them. They say they’ve been clean for weeks when, in truth, they got high just a few hours ago. They say they landed a great new job when they’re actually dirt poor and homeless.

Twelve Steps Plus An addict will do whatever is necessary to maintain their addiction. If they acknowledged the seriousness of the problem or the harm they’re causing themselves and others, they would be hard-pressed to continue this way of life. Their logic, whether conscious or unconscious, is: I need drugs, and I need lies to keep people off my back so I can continue using drugs. Thus, lying becomes a matter of self-preservation. Anything, or anyone, that is going to hinder their drug habit has no place in the addict’s life.

Twelve Steps Plus If the addict acknowledges that drugs and alcohol have become a problem but wants to continue using, they must convince themselves that they are the exception to the rule. The delusion that “I’m not like the others, I can handle it” allows the addict to live outside normal standards of behaviour.

(4) The twelve-step epiphany If we truly wish to be relieved of the "bondage of self," we must humbly take the position that God is, indeed, everything - that everything we perceive proceeds from, is, and is of, God. This position of non-duality allows us to truly embrace Step Three. We can be assured that our lives (and the world) are all part of a Unitive Whole that mystics, teachers and sages from all the world's great wisdom traditions have identified with a Power greater than themselves.

(4) The twelve-step epiphany Am I truly ready to take this greatest leap of faith, to truly put aside once and for all reliance on my own narrow self-will? This, it seems, is the central question of recovery, recovery from all of our addictions and from our obsessive, self-centred, lower consciousness.

(2) The twelve-step epiphany we are then told, and the purpose of the 'Big Book' is to show us how and where we might find and establish conscious contact with a Power greater than ourselves in order to transform our inner being.

The twelve-step epiphany If you do try to share what’s happening to your spiritual life, and to your daily life–you are probably going to get a black eye, or a string of black eyes. When this is coming from your friends, it’s probably going to hurt, at least until it doesn’t. The further you go, the broader the gap will be. This path offers truth, but truth comes at the price of exposing what is false. It’s a price we have to be willing to accept. We have to decide what we really want. If it’s acceptance, approval, or accolade, I’d suggest finding another path.

The twelve-step epiphany It is in the surrender of all conditions and requirements that in our meditations we discover to be who and what you are.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade,

SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA Recovery Community. We are open to all, you do not have to have an addiction problem to attend. We have only one specific objective that we centre on the solution , not on the problem or behaviour. The common solution as described from the original Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is what we use to begin with. We can talk in restaurants, coffee shops, parks or the beach we are not tied to a specific area, but we need to be able to come together in an organised way. We can use SKYPE or FACEBOOK any other internet method of talking together. The meetings whilst being informal try not use crosstalk allowing an open disciplined forum for discussion. The groups do not complete for membership and anyone family or friends can come, we are a friendship grouping who talk about the common solution to our problems and behaviour. We are spiritually based allowing full spiritual freedom to all. The intention is to offer support in a trusting environme

If you do try to share what’s happening to your spiritual life, and to your daily life–you are probably going to get a black eye, or a string of black eyes. When this is coming from your friends, it’s probably going to hurt, at least until it doesn’t. The further you go, the broader the gap will be. This path offers truth, but truth comes at the price of exposing what is false. It’s a price we have to be willing to accept. We have to decide what we really want. If it’s acceptance, approval, or accolade, I’d suggest finding another path.

12 Step epiphany It is in the surrender of all conditions and requirements that in our meditation we discover to be who and what we are.