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Remember to answer one or more of the three questions listed below as a practice every day. Remember: just 20 minutes a day of articulating inspired thought has been proven to visibly reduce the size of the amygdala in just five weeks, but you need to do it every day to get the full benefits.
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Today’s Success Story
One of the most powerful tools for shifting consciousness is confirmation. We naturally want to “prove ourselves right.” This desire to already know is a healthy function of survival. Addictive behavior is driven by the desire to create homeostasis. However, as addicts, our history has provided unsafe solutions as the best opportunities for feeling relief. By recording positive successes, our dopaminergic pathways shift to seek out healthier solutions organically.
When writing success stories, all focus should be solution-based or on the new life unfolding. A vital element of the program is about releasing the past. The facilitators of this program are not here to offer solutions. The goal of our work here is to support participants in developing the brain function that helps them come to better solutions naturally. We will not discuss why we became addicts, the dysfunctional things we did as addicts, or the things that seemed to drive our desire to return to addictive behaviors. Thinking steeped in past experiences or opinions should be ‘turned around’ to consider, “What is possible?” instead.
Please try to enter an answer to this question in your journal every day. Even if it is a small thing or an unexpected thing, what is one thing you have accomplished or learned today?
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Today’s Possibility Process
Possibility Processes are introduced during our video sessions, through both the Centering Practice offered with the Take-Home Tool and again, with the Meditation Practice. Each Possibility Process will provide a question to prompt the contemplative processes of the brain that accelerate reducing both the size of the amygdala and the addictive cravings that come with it.
The Possibility Processes are generally only introduced two times a week. You can choose to either do them with your Session Practice alone, or if you find the question more inspiring, you can use it in place of your daily Success Story Practice.
What did you discover during the Possibility Process today? What is your answer to the question I provided? Please be sure to articulate by entering an answer in your journal.
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Today’s New Thing
Any goal you accomplish today will become Tomorrow’s Success Story. Making a commitment and following through is critical to maintaining healthy consciousness. Doing this exercise daily gives you repeated opportunities to make and keep promises to yourself. This builds faith in your confidence and ability to succeed.
When setting goals for the day, it is helpful not to make them too lofty. If you have a big project to complete, think of one thing you can do today toward the big project, rather than trying to do the whole thing at once. Dopamine is a self-motivating chemical. It is more important to measure small successes than it is to shoot for the stars. The more dopamine you drive, the more motivated you’ll be to accomplish those big goals that might have been difficult in the past. If the small goal prompts you to accomplish the bigger goal great, but if you run out of time, recognizing the small goal will still drive the same dopamine levels in the brain.
If you don’t have a specific goal you are striving to achieve, another question you might ask yourself is, “What new thing will I try in my recovery today that I haven’t tried before?”
What one thing can you do today, to drive tomorrow’s success story? Please remember to articulate by putting your answer in a journal.
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