Recovering our feelings from the chaos of addiction IS the portal out of suffering, out of being trapped, out of bondage, out of solitary confinement of addiction, out of an unrealized life. Feeling our feelings is what will make us RECOVER.
On The Path of recovery, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. This is not new information. But I feel like we tend to focus on the spiritual part and ignore the human part. And in doing so, we forget that the whole point of this is not to just make us more spiritual, but to make us more human, too.
Our feelings, when felt and inspected, are signposts that show us the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. When we feel our feelings instead of making other people wrong, becoming violent, blaming others or acting out, we take a GIANT step towards becoming both more spiritual and more human.
And what does becoming more spiritual mean, anyways? To me, being more spiritual simply means being more LOVING. The most spiritual people who have walked the Earth - from Jesus to Buddha to Mohammed to Moses - all have LOVE in common as their bottom line. Being spiritual means being LOVING. And not just Loving to people who are like you, but Loving to ALL living beings, ESPECIALLY those who are not like you, who irritate you and who think differently than you.
Recovery is a diverse place and when we celebrate this diversity instead of condemning it - we become more spiritual, that is to say, more Loving. And we begin to hate others less when we hate ourselves less for feeling what we feel. The other way to say it is that we Love others MORE when we begin to Love ourselves and our feelings more.
Feeling your feelings and not judging yourself or others - this is a place of spiritual mastery. Can you do it? What feelings are you avoiding feeling? And why?
On The Path of recovery, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. This is not new information. But I feel like we tend to focus on the spiritual part and ignore the human part. And in doing so, we forget that the whole point of this is not to just make us more spiritual, but to make us more human, too.
Our feelings, when felt and inspected, are signposts that show us the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. When we feel our feelings instead of making other people wrong, becoming violent, blaming others or acting out, we take a GIANT step towards becoming both more spiritual and more human.
And what does becoming more spiritual mean, anyways? To me, being more spiritual simply means being more LOVING. The most spiritual people who have walked the Earth - from Jesus to Buddha to Mohammed to Moses - all have LOVE in common as their bottom line. Being spiritual means being LOVING. And not just Loving to people who are like you, but Loving to ALL living beings, ESPECIALLY those who are not like you, who irritate you and who think differently than you.
Recovery is a diverse place and when we celebrate this diversity instead of condemning it - we become more spiritual, that is to say, more Loving. And we begin to hate others less when we hate ourselves less for feeling what we feel. The other way to say it is that we Love others MORE when we begin to Love ourselves and our feelings more.
Feeling your feelings and not judging yourself or others - this is a place of spiritual mastery. Can you do it? What feelings are you avoiding feeling? And why?
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