Letting go of pain. Unkind thoughts. Criticism. Fear. Anything thats trapped inside the body. Thoughts can be addictive, especially unkind thoughts. Pain can be addictive. Being a victim can be addictive. We have to let go of these things so we can LIVE.
Release. Heal. Create.
From one of my favorite writers and health advocate Jason Christoff:
"Addictions are about sedating to one's pain, tranquilizing oneself to the sting of reality. Addictions are lies. Addictions and the pain killing affects they offer don't really dull the pain (as many believe)....they make it worse. All trauma tries to exit the body as pain and as it rises up to the surface, it looks for a way to escape. In order for trauma and pain to leave our bodies......we must feel the message, adapt, evolve and change. Addictions block this process, trapping the pain inside of us, to build up and destroy us over a lifetime. Many people today are OBESE with trapped pain, because their addictions don't allow the pain of their pasts to move out of their bodies.
In 2018 may we all develop the courage to live unsedated, unaddicted and untranquilized lives.......so our pain can move out of our systems. This in turn will help us build a better future. Addictive and sedative substances destroy us. What we do to ourselves, we do to our loved ones and our communities. Be a warrior in 2018. Face your pain head on and unsedated. Open the blast furnace door and let the fire consume you. Allow your pain to run you over and then understand that it will back up and run you over again. Feel your pain, dive deep, explore it, invite in it, ask it over for tea.......and then evolve into something better. Addiction traps us in a permanent childhood, freezing us in a child like existence when the tribe needs true adults in this troubled time. Embrace this right of passage. Out with the old, in with the new. Warriors of truth and health unite in 2018. One life, one time at bat. Swing for the fences."
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