Each of the 12 steps has a spiritual principle behind it. The first 3 are:
Step 1 is Honesty
Step 2 is Hope
Step 3 is Faith
Since Step 4 asks for a "searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves", COURAGE is the featured principle and feeling as you do a Step 4.
There are 3 main areas/feelings that people will address on a Step 4.
FEARS
RESENTMENTS
SEX HARMS
Honesty is also needed when doing a Step 4 to rid as much of the resentments and fears that can occupy the mind of an alcoholic and addict during the early part of their recovery.
Many in the program feel getting to and through a step 4 as quick as possible can be very beneficial in relieving the heavy weight of FEAR and RESENTMENT.
After this courageous and honest step, a person then releases this "inventory" to God and another person (a sponsor preferably).
The "work" starts at Step 4 and it can be difficult for some. But it also can release the burdens we carry around and prepares you for the rest of the Steps and your new life in sobriety.
Break Free
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Sunday, April 17, 2016
Daytona Beach Sober House - Recovery Living and Housing Daytona Florida
Very established and safe sober housing is available for ANYONE seeking a new life in recovery from Alcohol dependence and Drug addiction. We have several properties and resources in the Daytona Beach Florida area. Our Sober house is based on a structure to help all of our residents follow a 12 step program, attend meetings and rebuild their lives.
Our Sober Housing provides a plan for "living" as you advance through our program of recovery.
Fees are paid weekly
We provide assistance for anything you need including:
Employment
Medical situations
Food
Transportation to meetings and work
Church services
Our Daytona Beach Sober - Halfway House offers comfortable and clean living conditions.
The halfway house apartments provide separation from the total population and provides:
TV
Wifi Internet
Clean beds
Air Conditioning
We are also located within close proximity to Daytona Ocean beaches
Please contact Nick at aitbroker at gmaildotcom for more information or to schedule a phone call/in take.
Our Sober Housing provides a plan for "living" as you advance through our program of recovery.
Fees are paid weekly
We provide assistance for anything you need including:
Employment
Medical situations
Food
Transportation to meetings and work
Church services
Our Daytona Beach Sober - Halfway House offers comfortable and clean living conditions.
The halfway house apartments provide separation from the total population and provides:
TV
Wifi Internet
Clean beds
Air Conditioning
We are also located within close proximity to Daytona Ocean beaches
Please contact Nick at aitbroker at gmaildotcom for more information or to schedule a phone call/in take.
Saturday, April 9, 2016
The Mind Of A Drug Addict
If you do nothing to get out, you end up dying. To be a drug addict is to be imprisoned. In the beginning, you think drugs are your friend (they may seem to help you escape the things or feelings that bother you). But soon, you will find you get up in the morning thinking only about drugs. You start building up a tolerance, you need to spend more, do more, you can do half of what you're doing and still get the same effect, or more."
An addict thinks, I can use this one time and I'll be fine and I won't do it again.' An addict can't think like that, but that's how they do think. They think they have control of it and they don't. You use that one time and that one time turns into, 'You're hooked.'"
They do not consider long term problems that might result. Over time, the desire for the drugs becomes more important than the pleasure the addict gets from it. By the time the thrill is gone, long-lasting changes may have occurred within key regions of the brain.
No matter the initial reason a person begins taking drugs, the end result is invariably the same—disaster.
"Your whole day is spent finding or taking drugs. You get high all afternoon. At night, you put yourself to sleep with heroin. After wake up, you liven up with crack, And you live only for that. You are in a prison. You beat your head against a wall, nonstop, but you don't get anywhere. In the end, your prison becomes your tomb."
Those who become addicted quickly learn how to go from doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions. They are known how to visit the offices of many doctors and how to evade those pharmacies that might have their prescription histories stored in their computers.
It has been said that the least favorite word for an addict to hear is "No." When addicts are not ready to change, they become master manipulators in order to keep the addiction going. Their fear of stopping is so great that they will do just about anything to keep from having to be honest with themselves. Some of these manipulations include lying, cheating, blaming, raging and guilt-tripping others, as well as becoming depressed or developing other kinds of emotional or physical illnesses.
The more you allow yourself to be manipulated by the addict, the more manipulative the addict is likely to become. When you hold your ground and refuse to give into their unreasonable demands, they will eventually crumble into their own psychotic hell on earth.
By Daniel Miltz
An addict thinks, I can use this one time and I'll be fine and I won't do it again.' An addict can't think like that, but that's how they do think. They think they have control of it and they don't. You use that one time and that one time turns into, 'You're hooked.'"
They do not consider long term problems that might result. Over time, the desire for the drugs becomes more important than the pleasure the addict gets from it. By the time the thrill is gone, long-lasting changes may have occurred within key regions of the brain.
No matter the initial reason a person begins taking drugs, the end result is invariably the same—disaster.
"Your whole day is spent finding or taking drugs. You get high all afternoon. At night, you put yourself to sleep with heroin. After wake up, you liven up with crack, And you live only for that. You are in a prison. You beat your head against a wall, nonstop, but you don't get anywhere. In the end, your prison becomes your tomb."
Those who become addicted quickly learn how to go from doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions. They are known how to visit the offices of many doctors and how to evade those pharmacies that might have their prescription histories stored in their computers.
It has been said that the least favorite word for an addict to hear is "No." When addicts are not ready to change, they become master manipulators in order to keep the addiction going. Their fear of stopping is so great that they will do just about anything to keep from having to be honest with themselves. Some of these manipulations include lying, cheating, blaming, raging and guilt-tripping others, as well as becoming depressed or developing other kinds of emotional or physical illnesses.
The more you allow yourself to be manipulated by the addict, the more manipulative the addict is likely to become. When you hold your ground and refuse to give into their unreasonable demands, they will eventually crumble into their own psychotic hell on earth.
By Daniel Miltz
Acquiring spirituality with proper meditation
In today's fast paced life, we all need to take a halt at some point or the other in order to reconcile and rethink what we went through the entire day. Meditation is often suggested as the way to reduce significant amount of stress, anxiety and depression. As we all lead a pretty hectic lifestyle, meditation has become an important part for completing our life. The most effective and beneficial exercise of mind which can help you at any point of time is meditation.
The best thing about meditation session is felt mainly after you wake up from it and feel refreshed like never before. You may be either doing meditation on your own or inspired to undertake Easy Meditation Online Class for more impact. Its an art and requires heavy concentration and passionate faith while doing it. The tranquility that you experience is worth every bit as the meditation never has any kind of side effect. All the more you would receive best results as you will wake up from the condition all rejuvenate and refreshed, which will help you attain more concentration, stay focused and attain peace of mind. Its nothing but controlling the thoughts, emotions of mind in a certain way with utter calmness. The process of meditation is nothing but as simple as closing your eyes and sitting in a comfortable padmasana position followed by bring the concentration at a single point.
The best things which you are sure to be benefited with:
Clearer and focused thinking
Mental stability
Radiant skin
Proper sleep
Slows aging
Clearer thought process
Reduces asthma symptoms
Prevent anxiety attacks
Lower heart rate
Increased blood flow
Able to exercise fro a longer period of time
Stabilizes weight
Calms the nervous system
Improves brain activities and functionality
Improved rate of fertility
Inner peace
Balance between min, body and soul
Increased ability to love
Increased wisdom
Developing more rational way of think
Ability to answer your own problems
Development of psychic powers at certain levels
Increased attraction
Find the true purpose of your life
Increased patience
Increased happiness
Improved vitality
Increased IQ
Increased emotion state of mind
More outgoing and better personalty
Non aggressive behavioral pattern
If you are thinking about how to do it on your own and seeking more effective results, then pursue an Easy Meditation Online Class if going for regular class are not possible, because with expert advice and guidance your meditation will be completely fruitful. Start meeting your needs and understand what you soul requires by practicing more meditation since now.
For more information on Easy Meditation Online Class give us a call on +91 9820241639 or email at wecare@soultemplenet.com
The best thing about meditation session is felt mainly after you wake up from it and feel refreshed like never before. You may be either doing meditation on your own or inspired to undertake Easy Meditation Online Class for more impact. Its an art and requires heavy concentration and passionate faith while doing it. The tranquility that you experience is worth every bit as the meditation never has any kind of side effect. All the more you would receive best results as you will wake up from the condition all rejuvenate and refreshed, which will help you attain more concentration, stay focused and attain peace of mind. Its nothing but controlling the thoughts, emotions of mind in a certain way with utter calmness. The process of meditation is nothing but as simple as closing your eyes and sitting in a comfortable padmasana position followed by bring the concentration at a single point.
The best things which you are sure to be benefited with:
Clearer and focused thinking
Mental stability
Radiant skin
Proper sleep
Slows aging
Clearer thought process
Reduces asthma symptoms
Prevent anxiety attacks
Lower heart rate
Increased blood flow
Able to exercise fro a longer period of time
Stabilizes weight
Calms the nervous system
Improves brain activities and functionality
Improved rate of fertility
Inner peace
Balance between min, body and soul
Increased ability to love
Increased wisdom
Developing more rational way of think
Ability to answer your own problems
Development of psychic powers at certain levels
Increased attraction
Find the true purpose of your life
Increased patience
Increased happiness
Improved vitality
Increased IQ
Increased emotion state of mind
More outgoing and better personalty
Non aggressive behavioral pattern
If you are thinking about how to do it on your own and seeking more effective results, then pursue an Easy Meditation Online Class if going for regular class are not possible, because with expert advice and guidance your meditation will be completely fruitful. Start meeting your needs and understand what you soul requires by practicing more meditation since now.
For more information on Easy Meditation Online Class give us a call on +91 9820241639 or email at wecare@soultemplenet.com
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Addiction; Why Willpower Has Nothing to Do With Addiction Recovery
There are a number of myths that pervade our social consciousness pertaining to addiction, and these myths are almost universally unhelpful to addicts afflicted with the disease of addiction, and contribute greatly to the stigma that even recovering alcoholics and drug addicts must endure.
Addicts don't have to hit "rock bottom" before getting help. In fact waiting this long almost always makes things far more difficult, and the necessary therapy and recovery needed that much longer. Addicts do not need to decide for themselves to get treatment either, and statistics show that addicts mandated to attend drug or alcohol treatment are just as successful as those that attend of their own accord.
But the possibly the most harmful myth related to addiction is that addicts are somehow weak, or lacking in willpower.
The impulses of addiction are beyond conscious control
It's easy for us to explain addiction and the behaviors of use out of a framework of personal strength and willpower, and for those not addicted, willpower does control how much we drink, or even use illicit drugs. But for an addict, once drugs or alcohol abuse becomes addiction, willpower becomes irrelevant.
With addiction comes a physical change in the processes of the brain, and these changes occur in the mesolimbic dopaminergic area of the brain, an area that operates outside of our conscious control. The mesolimbic creates the impulses and cravings to abuse, and these impulses are not of a conscious nature. Although the behaviors and use of an addict appears at the surface considered and deliberate, those actions are in fact controlled at a preconscious level, and are beyond the scope of willpower.
It takes strength to overcome addiction, but not willpower
Although these impulses operate at a preconscious level, there are strategies, medicines and life changes that have proven effective in minimizing the impact exerted by the preconscious impulses to use. Willpower has nothing to do with it, but it takes enormous strength, courage and will to participate fully in difficult therapies of recovery and to make the life changes required to minimize the impact of these triggers to use.
We can never control what we are not fully aware of, but we can take steps to minimize the occurrence of these impulses. We do so through medications that affect the mesolimbic, and by cognitive and behavioral strategies that reduce out exposure to situations and environments likely to trigger a preconscious impulse. It's not easy to change your life in such a way as to minimize these triggers to abuse, and those that can do so should be celebrated for their strength and determination, and never castigated for their weakness or lack of willpower.
Although addiction is medically recognized as a disease, the stigma associated with addiction recovery has a lot to do with myths and misunderstandings of the true nature of addiction. Recovering addicts deserve our support and admiration, and never the lingering stigma of personal weakness.
By Christin Shire
Addicts don't have to hit "rock bottom" before getting help. In fact waiting this long almost always makes things far more difficult, and the necessary therapy and recovery needed that much longer. Addicts do not need to decide for themselves to get treatment either, and statistics show that addicts mandated to attend drug or alcohol treatment are just as successful as those that attend of their own accord.
But the possibly the most harmful myth related to addiction is that addicts are somehow weak, or lacking in willpower.
The impulses of addiction are beyond conscious control
It's easy for us to explain addiction and the behaviors of use out of a framework of personal strength and willpower, and for those not addicted, willpower does control how much we drink, or even use illicit drugs. But for an addict, once drugs or alcohol abuse becomes addiction, willpower becomes irrelevant.
With addiction comes a physical change in the processes of the brain, and these changes occur in the mesolimbic dopaminergic area of the brain, an area that operates outside of our conscious control. The mesolimbic creates the impulses and cravings to abuse, and these impulses are not of a conscious nature. Although the behaviors and use of an addict appears at the surface considered and deliberate, those actions are in fact controlled at a preconscious level, and are beyond the scope of willpower.
It takes strength to overcome addiction, but not willpower
Although these impulses operate at a preconscious level, there are strategies, medicines and life changes that have proven effective in minimizing the impact exerted by the preconscious impulses to use. Willpower has nothing to do with it, but it takes enormous strength, courage and will to participate fully in difficult therapies of recovery and to make the life changes required to minimize the impact of these triggers to use.
We can never control what we are not fully aware of, but we can take steps to minimize the occurrence of these impulses. We do so through medications that affect the mesolimbic, and by cognitive and behavioral strategies that reduce out exposure to situations and environments likely to trigger a preconscious impulse. It's not easy to change your life in such a way as to minimize these triggers to abuse, and those that can do so should be celebrated for their strength and determination, and never castigated for their weakness or lack of willpower.
Although addiction is medically recognized as a disease, the stigma associated with addiction recovery has a lot to do with myths and misunderstandings of the true nature of addiction. Recovering addicts deserve our support and admiration, and never the lingering stigma of personal weakness.
By Christin Shire
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Don’t relapse after rehab. Sober living housing can help.
For people not ready to face the world head-on, for people without a sober place to go, and for people still struggling with addiction and a corresponding mental illness, coming out of drug or alcohol rehab and into a sober living environment can be a great way to increase the odds of long term sobriety and success.
What is sober living housing?
Sober living housing (halfway housing) is simply a residency, that may or may not offer some degree of addictions therapy, and which provides low cost accommodation to addicts in recovery in return for an agreement to accept a certain and strict code of conduct.
Residents transitioning through a sober living house must generally gain employment, may not bring drugs or alcohol in to the house, may not appear intoxicated inside the residence, and must abide by behavioral rules such as curfews and work duties. Residents are free to stay for as long as they like, and there is rarely a pre set period of residency, but most recovering addicts stay from 1-6 months.
The benefits of sober living housing
There are a number of benefits to residency in a sober living house, and one of the most obvious is simply that living in a sober house reduces the temptations of independent living, and increases the odds that recovering addicts can withstand the sometimes intense cravings during the initial months out of rehab.
But sober living housing offers more and one of the intangibles, but something that does offer great assistance to those struggling with sobriety, is simply the development of sober friendships within the house, and learning again how to have fun without drugs or alcohol.
Most people with lengthy addictions histories have spent years equating fun or recreation with intoxication, and newly sober addicts often find leisure time one of the greatest threats to sobriety. How can you have fun without intoxication?
If you're on your own, filling leisure time and dealing with loneliness can be difficult, but in a sober living house you benefit from the company and camaraderie of a group of recovering addicts in a very similar situation to yours. Sober living house friendships are the rule rather than the exception, and addicts learn together how to have fun and enjoy themselves in a healthy and safe manner.
This may seem a small thing at the surface level, but dealing with leisure time in a healthy way is crucial to long term sobrietyArticle Search, and those that cannot learn this skill have little chance at ultimate success.
Don't relapse
From
http://www.choosehelp.com/topics/drug-treatment/halfway-house-drug-treatment
What is sober living housing?
Sober living housing (halfway housing) is simply a residency, that may or may not offer some degree of addictions therapy, and which provides low cost accommodation to addicts in recovery in return for an agreement to accept a certain and strict code of conduct.
Residents transitioning through a sober living house must generally gain employment, may not bring drugs or alcohol in to the house, may not appear intoxicated inside the residence, and must abide by behavioral rules such as curfews and work duties. Residents are free to stay for as long as they like, and there is rarely a pre set period of residency, but most recovering addicts stay from 1-6 months.
The benefits of sober living housing
There are a number of benefits to residency in a sober living house, and one of the most obvious is simply that living in a sober house reduces the temptations of independent living, and increases the odds that recovering addicts can withstand the sometimes intense cravings during the initial months out of rehab.
But sober living housing offers more and one of the intangibles, but something that does offer great assistance to those struggling with sobriety, is simply the development of sober friendships within the house, and learning again how to have fun without drugs or alcohol.
Most people with lengthy addictions histories have spent years equating fun or recreation with intoxication, and newly sober addicts often find leisure time one of the greatest threats to sobriety. How can you have fun without intoxication?
If you're on your own, filling leisure time and dealing with loneliness can be difficult, but in a sober living house you benefit from the company and camaraderie of a group of recovering addicts in a very similar situation to yours. Sober living house friendships are the rule rather than the exception, and addicts learn together how to have fun and enjoy themselves in a healthy and safe manner.
This may seem a small thing at the surface level, but dealing with leisure time in a healthy way is crucial to long term sobrietyArticle Search, and those that cannot learn this skill have little chance at ultimate success.
Don't relapse
From
http://www.choosehelp.com/topics/drug-treatment/halfway-house-drug-treatment
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