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Session Practices - Phase One - A new understanding of addiction
Session One – The format of our program
3 Practices
Course Structure and Commitment Practice
Session One Centering Practice
Session One Take-Home Tool – Journaling Meditation
Session Two – The foundations of our program
2 Practices
Session Two Centering Practice
What we believe Practice
Session Three – An Introduction to Phase One
2 Practices
Session Three Centering Practice
Practice Review and Floor Exercise
Session Four – The effects of sensory stimuli
2 Practices
Session Four Centering
Positive Sensory Stimuli Practice
Session Five – Campaigning
2 Practices
Session Five Centering Practice
Campaigning Practice
Session Six – Memory Interaction Tool
2 Practices
Session Six Centering Practice
Memory Interaction Tool
Session Seven – Sensory Saturation and Depletion
3 Practices
Session Seven Centering Practice
Sensory Saturation and Depletion Practices
Brain Hack 2 – Salient Experience Exercises
Session Eight – Managing Triggers
2 Practices
Session Eight Centering – What can go right?
Managing Triggers Practice
Session Nine – Using Physical Activity
2 Practices
Session Nine Centering Practice – If I believed in my power.
Using Physical Activity Practice
Session Ten – Scale of One to Ten Observation
2 Practices
Session Ten Centering Practice – What shows my growth?
Scale of One to Ten Observation Practice
Session Eleven – Shredding It
2 Practices
Session Eleven Centering Practice
Shredding It Tool Practice
Session Twelve – What’s next?
2 Practices
Coloring Practices for Phase One and Phase Two
Brain Hack One – What are your go-to practices Practice
Session Practices - Phase Two - Getting to the root of the problem and fixing it
Session Thirteen – Step One – How the amygdala makes addiction unmanageable
4 Practices
Go Somewhere New Centering Practice and Take Home Tool
The Wall Meditation Practice
The Fall Meditation Practice
Dark Matter Meditation Practice
Session Fourteen – Step Two – How to restore sanity through practices
3 Practices
Session Thirteen Centering Practice
Session Fourteen Centering Practice
Power greater than us practice
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Session One Take-Home Tool – Journaling Meditation

Community Recovery Group Session One – The format of our program Session One Take-Home Tool – Journaling Meditation

Journaling Meditation

Center – Before any meditation practice, always center yourself. It is not possible to enter a meditative state if your system is stressed. So, it is important to take a moment to breathe and become calm. Whether you already feel centered, or feel far from center, always take a moment to breathe. To begin this practice, I invite you to close your eyes and take ten, slow, deep breaths. Allow yourself to deepen with each.

If you are having a difficult day and are unable to center on your own, remember you can return to this week’s video for your Meditation Practice, or even check out one of our Live Meditation Videos on YouTube.

Meditate – According to Eastern Philosophy, the definition of meditation is not stillness. it is a state of observation we call “active listening. The purpose of meditation is to expand our consciousness, to move us from what we know, and have been to what we don’t know and have never been. To make that move, we need information beyond what we have already considered. If we are to grow or evolve, we must move from the place we are now, to a new place of being, a new state of consciousness. To accomplish this, we will ask a question to stimulate the contemplative part of our mind, and then we will try to articulate an idea that we might not have considered before.

Our practice begins with the question, but equally important to the articulate the answer. To achieve growth, we can not just observe, we must articulate. Bring a new thought into language is the fastest way to alter brain function.

As a final note; when we are attempting to conceive new information, that new information might be difficult to describe. If you struggle, please remember this; the harder the answer is to describe, the better it is for your brain. Take your time and give your best description. If you write only a single sentence after twenty minutes of trying to comprehend the sentence, the benefit to your brain is worth hours of traditional educational practices.

The question I would like you to contemplate today is: