Addiction and Zen. A handbook for addicts and those in recovery, and their families.
Foreword I warmly recommend Mary Heath's article on The Benefits of Zen Meditation in Addiction and Recovery. It shows a sensitive awareness and understanding of the difficulties that people face when they decide to come off drugs and gives a range of strategies for helping this process, ranging from traditional Zen work with the breath and mindfulness and walking meditation, to her own discoveries. Taken together these provide a kit from which people in recovery can choose. Its presentation is vivid and straightforward making it an illuminating, practical, compassionate guide to the path of recovery. .......... About Zen Zen practice is about having time for yourself in a special way. One method of training comes down to us from Sakyamuni Buddha, who lived in the sixth century B.C. in Northern India. As well as the Zen Group's evening at Palmerston Farm, we run meditation evenings and retreats at our centre in Claremont.
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The daughter of a nationally known politician is convicted of selling cocaine. It’s hard to understand why people throw away their lives just for drugs. It’s even harder to understand how someone you care about allows himself to be fired from one job after another, even though he has the talent to succeed, because of a cocaine problem. Or how she allows her need for painkillers to come before taking care of her own children. The answer is that you are asking the wrong questions. Read “The Truth about Drug Addiction” Are you being Gaslighted? Dear Readers, In my first blog about gaslighting, I talked about the "good news" about gaslighting - that is, that once you identify this destructive pattern in your relationship, you can change it.
A reader asked me, if it is possible over time to get so beaten down and so sure you might be at fault, that you can't identify the dynamic? The answer is YES. The Gaslight Effect happens over time - gradually - and, often, by the time you are deep into the Gaslight Tango (the dance you do with your gaslighting partner, where you allow him to define your reality) you are not the same strong - or not so strong - self you used to be. In fact, your ego functioning has been compromised and, no longer being certain of your reality, you are not often able to accurately identify when something is "off" with your partner. The first stage is disbelief: when the first sign of gaslighting occurs.
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Power and control are at the center of a violent and abusive relationship. Equality and mutual respect are the center in a well-balanced relationship. A healthy relationship is kind, equal, loving and fulfilling. Abusive relationships are spiteful, controlling, terrorizing and stagnating. Changing for your partner? Certainly, equal loving partners may decide to change their physical habits to please each other - but a person should NOT be asked to change their lifestyle, personality, hobbies, or career choices.
If your partner asks you to be or become a different person, remind them that they originally selected you as yourself. Compare your relationship As we said at the top, power and control are at the center of a violent and abusive relationship. Look over the following comparisons. 1 Loving: Non Threatening Behavior - Talking and acting so that you feel safe and comfortable expressing yourself and doing things. Basic Rights In A Relationship and Criteria To Evaluate New Relationship @ the bmindful forum. Pure Essence Posted on 10/04/2009.
Its been a busy day today and while I am sitting here thinking about how my day went with my partner and kids, I realised I havent shared with you something that I think it very important. Its about our basic rights in any relationship and a criteria to evaluate when you are in a new relationship. Hope it is of some help for you to help valuate where you are in your relationship or in the process of starting a new one. The right to goodwill from the other. The right to emotional support. The right to be heard by the other and to be responded to with courtesy. The right to have our feelings and experience acknowledged as real.