We know that certain activities and thought habits dim the light
of aliveness. They offer a false promise of escape, excitement, or redemption,
all of which turn out to be elusive and illusionary. They can also hurt those
around us.
Cravings and addictions are a misdirected way to dispel the darkness
we sometimes feel inside us. Feelings of hatred, anger, resentment, fear, panic,
are all responses to the darkness that betrays our innate knowledge of how to
heal ourselves. These so-called dark feelings are also the body's symptomatic
response to unhealed traumas that occurred in our natural, evolving process of
growth. No blame is necessary for these traumas! Why beat up on generational and
cultural ignorance--obstacles that have become such an integral part of our evolutionary
saga? We haven't got the time; resolution is what's important.
In Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek's book The Living Energy
Universe, they offer:
"Our contemporary leaders of both science and religion are ultimately
in the same boat [as we are]. They were raised as children to accept certain stories
as dogma, and it hurts them, like it hurts us, to revise our cherished stories.
Too often we make the mistake of defining ourselves by our histories, by our past
systemic memories, and by the stories we ultimately accepted and the stories we
ultimately rejected. We live a storybook life, and often, we are not very reliable
storytellers. Fortunately, we are not the mere history of our stories. We have
the energy and information to create new stories. "
Our spiritual recovery is a path to rewriting our life stories.
It is a path of healing into our full aliveness. See this website's "Doorways"
on Addiction and Trauma to explore this in more depth.
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