Can An Addict Teach Us About Personal Growth:Part 1

What can an addict teach us about personal growth?

A great deal. There's a great deal wisdom to be discovered by the addict’s journey from dependency to recovery.

I recognize that some of you scanning this now maynot be drug addicts and alcoholics. That’s all right – but you stand to acquire great insight from the experience of those who have struggled and overcome a dangerous addiction. There are a lot of parallels between recovery and personal development. Many would reason that their paths are really one and the same.

Living with a recovering drug addict , one of my loves is exploring the process of defeating addiction. While there are several different recovery programs, most of them share a lot of of the same features, so individulas who discover success in recovery do so by adopting a similar path. Here are a few of the things that lead to long term sobriety, while as well having pragmatic application for personal development:

Defeating addiction calls for overwhelming power

This was a big awakening for me personally. It took me awhi;le to realize just how strong of a commitment was called for for long term sobriety.

Applying overwhelming power is counter-intuitive. We don’t require it for 99 % of our day-to-day interactions. For instance, let’s say you want to pick up your front room. Would it truly be essential to individually dust and then hand-wash each whatnot, steam clean every square inch of rug, wash and repaint the walls and the ceiling, vacuum all cloths and drapery, and so forth? Naturally not. This is overwhelming power, and it’s plainly not essential in this situation. We get pretty good outcomes (a clean front room) with only a small investment (quick dusting and vacuuming). We can see this same case acted out in a million different places. Put in a small effort, and get a small return. Almost all of our basic, day-to-day experiences reinforce this concept.

Addiction and recovery does not work like that in the least. A small effort in defeating addiction will always result in relapse. It's only through the use of overwhelming power that an addict can defeat the unbelievable pull of addiction. Lukewarm efforts or even a moderately strong commitment will result in full failure. This is why a lot of addicts battle for several years, going in and out of treatment plans, only to someday (hopefully) work out the intense level of personal commitment needed to succeed.

For a lot of addicts and alcoholics, addiction is a life-or-death circumstance. They're surviving on the brink of absolute destruction at the hands of these chemicals. Suppose your goals in personal development were of a life-or-death nature. So use this precept to dominate your personal development goals.

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Developing a Powerful Vision For Recovery

A vision is an aspiration that you produce in your mind and aim for it and plan for it from start to the end. It's this vision that thrusts you forward and aims your life with a purpose to reach ahead. It gives the power to achieve your aspirations and also inspires individuals around you with your positive mindset and drive to move forward.

However, how does one plan on acquiring a powerful vision and inspire their lives and the lives of others under its influence when it comes to recovery?

Think Ahead and Plan
If you have the ability to dream, you are able to plan your vision to meet your goals. Think of how you are and how you want your future to be. You are able to create a vision not only to pull in power and success to your recovery but it can also work for your relationships and other aspects of life. When you think ahead and plan in your mind, you are able to produce a vision. Let it be very specific and not something that's very vaguely pictured.

Think Positive
To acquire a powerful vision, you need to produce a positive mindset. Unless you think positive, the actions or planning can't happen in a positive manner. So, it's very essential to have a positive thinking in order to move ahead. Without positive thinking, there's no vision. Without a vision, there's no goal achieved in life or recovery.

Apply the Power of Affirmations
Positive thinking and affirmation with a belief in yourself is very crucial to develop powerful visions and carry it forward to attain success in life and recovery. You need to have motivation and it should be constant and there's nothing better than the power of affirmations to help you acquire all the motivation you need.

Determine Goals
Based on your vision, it's crucial to set goals both short term and long term. It's crucial to visit these goals often and check how many of them you've been able to achieve. If you have been successful in achieving your goals, celebrate it and take credit for it. This will help you stay motivated. However, at the same time, if you have not been able to accomplish some of these goals, it's best not to lose heart but to see why you have not been able to reach these goals and consider how to strive towards reaching them.

The vision that you have generated from your zeal to excel in recovery shouldn't just remain a unfulfilled dream. Rather, it's in your hands to give it the proper shape and molding that it requires to make it grow and attain fruition. Otherwise, the vision has no value.

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From the Eyes of An Addicts Mother-Reflecting On the Birth of My Child

On July 10th my son had born to him a bouncing baby boy. However the baby was early and quickly developed some complications not due to the fault of anyone... just one of those things.

My son, who has been through many trials in his oh so short life, with addictions and the like was overcome with immediate love for this little human he brought into the world.

I was thinking back about my sons birth and how much love I felt for him the second he was born. He had no problems at birth... his developed later on. My son has said to me many times over the course of the last few days since the baby was born that "He totally understands why I would get so crazy upset with him when he was doing crazy things". I guess it just takes some growing up.

The baby recovered....thanks to the grace of God and went home yesterday....my son is as well recovering thanks to the grace of God.