By William Alexander, Kevin Griffin
The major to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or the other type of habit is correct ahead of us, the following and now, within the usual and ideal current second. the matter is that addictions are usually the results of our efforts to flee dwelling within the found in the 1st position. invoice Alexander’s new angle makes use of mindfulness (a nonjudgmental understanding of our moment-to-moment experience), tale, and meditation to aid alcoholics and others learn how to come again to the current second and locate therapeutic there. rising medical learn means that mindfulness will help hinder habit relapse.
Ordinary Recovery is a revised variation of Alexander’s publication Cool Water, with a brand new foreword, a brand new preface by means of the writer, updates through the booklet, and a brand new assets part.
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I admitted, soul deep, that I was an alcoholic but I did not know what that was. I thought it had to mean something. By attending AA meetings I found what I needed to know. In meeting after meeting, I heard the same thing in many different words. In the richness of storytelling and open-hearted sharing, I found out what I always knew. Drinking causes suffering. Suffering causes drinking. ” Pathological. The mystery and ambiguity are put to an end in those five simple syllables for me. I am drawn to this definition not because of its clinical ring but out of a deeper resonance with the root word, pathos, from the Greek for suffering.
She was wise enough to see what so few can. She drank because she felt she needed to. It changed her and she longed for the changes. She stopped because she knew her reasoning was twisted. She quit when she was in her twenties and had been sober for over ten years when she died, a victim of terrorism. My daughter quit drinking at the same age as my friend and has been sober for a long time now. Her story is not about liqueurs; hers is about vodka and drunk tanks and wrecked cars. She went down quicker than I did, and further.
As active alcoholics we suffer alone in a savage state of denial and rage. As recovering alcoholics we still suffer, just as everyone does, but we do so in the company of other alcoholics and thus participate in a mutual antidote to suffering. The fact of compassion is realized. ” Compassion again. In Buddhism, the opposite of greed, one of the Three Poisons, is compassion, just as the opposites of the other poisons, anger and ignorance, are wisdom and enlightenment. In the view of Buddhism, life includes suffering and, through awakening to that fact and awareness of the cause of suffering (“thirst” in some translations), we can put an end to suffering by following a path of compassionate living.
