Most people living in one day at a time recovery know what it’s like to be captured by our thoughts. Some of us realize that our thoughts are our thoughts and often our thoughts are responsible for the way we feel or our feelings influence the way we think. Our minds can be a funny thing but should we be captured by our thoughts and/or our feelings we tend to be caught up in an obsessive and addictive way of thinking. We actually can crave to think the ways in which we think. We can also crave to feel the ways we feel. We can also crave to ingest anything that brings about pleasure in any form which creates a sense of ease, safety and comfort to the body, brain and mind. The body, the brain and the mind need to experience pleasure, ease, safety and comfort but it appears much of what we ingest to boot in such experiences severely diminishes our ability to face the reality of adversity in any way whatsoever nor can we understand the concept of responsibility. We become the addict living in non-reality captured by our thoughts. It’s a sad thing to experience or witness. Many of us need some form of a medical intervention to lead us into recovery. We might need medications to get us through withdrawal and to make us healthy enough to understand and live in a healthy reality. To know this is imperative information. Our thoughts no longer need to keep us in captivity. Peace.
