Author: Romeo
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:54 am
I’m so glad DoaQ came by and posted what’s working for her, because by and large, I’ve been using DoaQ’s approach to recovery over the last 6 months and it has worked better for me and my needs than anything else I’ve tried so far.
I used to think meditation was a bunch of hocus pocus, but then I started giving it a try. You don’t have to lock yourself in a darkened room with incense burning while humming OHHHMMMM, it certainly doesn’t need to be that involved. It can be as simple as just pausing for a second to recognize and acknowledge your current thoughts, be mindful of them, then move on. Most of my meditation during the day is that simple. Sometimes I’ll find myself becoming overrun with emotions and I’ll pause, I ask God to help bring me back to center and as quick as that, it’s over. At first, I had to meditate a while longer to get back to "center", but after some practice, it comes very quickly now.
I love the idea of the pause meditation can set up between those feelings of wanting to get high and actually getting high. For so long, it seemed my brain was hardwired to react to ANY trigger I encountered with immediately wanting to get high. The brain path, or neural pathway, from trigger to getting high was .00001 seconds long for me. Now, most of the time, that neural pathway has some roadblocks on it. Those roadblocks give me enough time to stop reacting to my impulses and they allow me time to consider the consequences of my actions.
Gosh, I could go through and basically quote or restate everything DoaQ said, but I don’t need to, she did a damn good job explaining it all by herself.
I’d suggest you give her post a few good reads and let it really sink in. If it sounds like something your interested in, then give it a whirl.
