Our Recovery has become complicated because we pass it through our habitual disturbed thought patterns. When we step back from ourselves and our changed addictive thinking, recovery becomes much simpler. There are not many paths to complete recovery freedom, there is in fact only one. In the end, no matter what particular patterns of thought we have managed to build in our minds, freedom always means transcending these personal thought patterns we have developed.
The method used by the ten stages is in quite time, a gentle letting go and meditation, coupled with the development of loving kindness a new learned thought process.
This is the start of an on-going process of un-development a method of un-learning of our old thinking process that has been used to feed addiction either to our emotions, substances or dissociated processes. But how does one go about transcending the personal addicted self and awaken to recovery freedom? What is needed for this path to recovery are succinct stages that are so universal that they can echo through the halls of any religion as well as support intellectual understanding.
The following is that road map to our
Recovery Mindfulness.
1. We have to Come to a Realisation that we dwell within.
We must first come to realise that to all intents and purpose we are inside ourselves. From deep inside, we are all experiencing this world. We are experiencing our physical body, our thoughts, and our emotions. We are conscious and we are experiencing what it is like to be human.Our view point is that of our child hidden within ourselves.
2.We have to come to the Realisation that we are not content within. Something is not right.
Look to see what's going on inside. If we want to understand why we've done everything we have ever done, if we want to see what's really going on, just observe our child hidden within and its emotions--just experience our inner state our child hidden within. If we objectively look, we will see that we are never been completely at peace. We will see that we are not content within ourselves.
3. We are addicted to that feeling of incompleteness we're always struggling for some other diagnosis to be complete.aha its this label or its that label.... Something is WRONG.
At any point when we look at the state of our child within, We will see that something is bothering us. We will then notice that this causes urges, drives, and impulses to do something about it. We will find ourself constantly trying to either get something or avoid something. All of this is done in an attempt to be feel complete. For We have learnt to dissociate at an early age.
4. We have taken on the job of figuring out how everything needs to be for us to be content in this world.
If we watch, we will see that our adult mind is always telling us what we should and should not do, what others should and should not do, and how things should and should not be. All of this is the adult mind's attempt to first create a conceptual model of what would make us okay, and then try to get the outside world to match it.
5. We process how the outside needs to be. This is not going to make us content.
We must seriously look at this process of trying to be complete. We've been at it our entire life--we've just tried different things at different times. While it's true that sometimes we manage to make it better for short periods of time, we know that we've never even come close to reaching a state of permanent peace. Watch very closely how we react to the things our mind has preferences about. We will see that if our mind gets what it wants, we feel joy; if it doesn't get what it wants, we feel disturbance. Likewise, when our mind experiences what it doesn't want, we feel disturbance, and when it avoids what it doesn't want, we feel relief. We will never be satisfied playing this game because the world will never match this conceptual model that our mind has made up for us. Eventually, we will come to see that struggling to be content or gaining the complete explanation for our problems doesn't work does not work. At some point, we will try to find a different way to be complete inside ourselves.
6. Learn to not participate in the mind's constant struggle to be content.
This stage is about learning to sit inside ourself as our witness..our child within, the part of us that notices the child withins urges to be complete. We must become comfortable with sitting inside ourselves and not participating in the inner dissociations of completeness. We learn to relax into our child within in the midst of them. We come to see that there is a habitual process in which the moment we feel inner disturbance/dissociations, we are drawn falsely into doing something about them. We must learn to sit inside and not participate in this process. If we truly understand that going outside to try to be okay inside doesn't work, then we'll be willing to sit inside and simply allow the disturbance to pass through. It is not difficult. If we can do this, all disturbance will cease by itself.
7. Learning to go about our life just like everyone else, except that nothing we do is for the purpose of trying to be complete.We are and always will be work in progress
If we aren't so preoccupied with trying to be content, we will be free to sit inside and quietly love, serve, and honour whatever naturally unfolds in front of us. When we reach this point, we are no longer living for ourself. We are interacting with life, but not for the purpose of being complete.
8. As we sincerely let go of the inner energies of ancient parental control we are watching, we begin to feel a deeper energy come in from our child within.We start to experience without interruption our intuitive voice.
Up to this point, everything we were watching inside was in front of us. But now that we are no longer being drawn into those personal dissociated energies of adulthood, we'll begin to realise that our inner universe our child within is actually very expansive. We will begin to feel contact with our child withins spirit. It lifts us and brings us love and joy.
9. Our connection to the child within experience becomes so beautiful that we surrender we experience a profound contact with the energy of our child within, and we develop a very deep and personal relationship with it.
It will become completely clear to us that there is an absolute trade-off between our personal energies, the need for completion and the amount of contact that we feel. The more we get drawn into our personal energies demands, the less child within we feel. The more we don't participate in our demanding energies, the more recovery we feel. We now have a direct relationship with our child within, and we will find ourself constantly longing to experience it.
10.We begin to feel our newfound released energy pulling us up into our relationship with our child within, and our entire path becomes letting go of ourself in order to merge with the healthy growing child within.
Our Adult learned Will is no longer needed. Now our path is strictly about releasing ourself into the path of our child within. We must surrender deeply enough to be able to overcome the fear of losing our connection to the adult needy personal self. We must be willing to surrender and to be re-birthed back into our child within.
11. Once we return to our child within, we realise that our personal life can go on without us, leaving us free to become immersed in our child withins will for us.
This is the greatest miracle: We've surrendered and our entire life is about our child within, yet people, places, and things continue to interact with us. The difference is that these interactions require none of our energy. They happen naturally, by themselves, leaving us at peace and to be re-absorbed in Loving-Kindness of the naturally occurring child in our life.
12. Now we are truly content and complete and nothing inside or outside of us can cause disturbance--we have come to a deep understanding with it all.
Because we have now at last completely recovered our healthy child, we don't need anything to complete us. Things just are what they are. At this point, we know ourself as our Child Within. The world, mind, and heart cannot disturb us. We've transcended them all with the help of our child. What is more, instead of feeling drawn into conflict, we now actually experience ourself as our natural state that of a healthy Child Within. We have no boundaries in time or space. We have always existed and we will always exist. We have no form, shape, gender, or body. We simply are, have always been, and will always be--our Infinite Child Within.
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