RECOVERY LIFE

RECOVERY LIFE

During the course of our lifetime we are presented with many, many doorways. There are doorways that lead to adventures, doorways leading to romance and relationships, and there are also doorways opening to the shadows and limitations of fear and suffering. From the very beginning of our life on earth we are taught points of view, beliefs, opinions and judgments. These experiences and teachings may serve us well, or they might distort our ability to see the truth. They become the filters that our perception is filtered thru.

We humans have a powerful ability to make whatever we choose to believe, the truth. Once we’ve settled on a belief, we make agreements with our selves about that belief as truth. Then we seek out others who will agree with us, building a case that our belief really is the truth. From that point forward our perception is subject to the matrix that is created from the network of belief, agreement, definition, and truth that we choose to give our faith to.

You could actually interchange the use of faith and belief in this scenario. It is the power of our faith in our beliefs that gives them power and eventually makes them sacred to us. Sacred because once we’ve made our commitment to our beliefs we will automatically defend them before we openly question them. Questioning our beliefs opens us up to the great tragedy of being wrong. Of course we have made a ridiculously big deal out of being wrong when all being wrong is, is an opportunity to choose again.

For some of us humans life has presented a doorway that we call Recovery. This term recovery is a loaded concept. There are points of view that you have to qualify according to the rules or definitions of others to be “in recovery”. Some people believe recovery is a life long process that you’ll never complete and the best you can be is compliant with the guidelines that are suggested. Then there are those who Recover. Whatever they were doing or dealing with that led them to the doorway or portal of recovery has been dealt with and they have moved on in life, free from the issues that they once suffered from.

In order to be free from our sufferings, we must come to terms with all the ways we have willingly indulged in our suffering. From this point of view recovery is as great an act of human transformation and unconditional love as we might be capable of. To recover requires that we leave no stone unturned in our life and we come face to face with the entire matrix of our beliefs, fears, judgments, opinions, faith and truth. To recover is to be free of life through my, your, or anybody else’s definition. To recover, we must return our faith to our self—to the one that was born of the faith and great mystery of life, letting go of living for the outside world, for the sake of living from the integrity within.

The greatest of journeys begins with the first step. Recovering our integrity, recovering our authenticity, recovering our truth from all the false beliefs we’ve invested our self in, is the great adventure that awaits those who have the willingness and courage to step into the doorway of RECOVERY LIFE.