Waking Up with Treated Alcoholism and Addiction

For years I woke up, or came to, and had to treat my alcoholism and addiction. I’d treat it with booze, drugs, tobacco, food, sex, gambling, and anything else I could find. If you had it, I’d do it!
 
Then one day everything stopped working, the pain became too much to bear, and I was driven to the ‘joy filled’ rooms of recovery.
 
It was here I first learned that every day I wake up with untreated alcoholism and addiction. I also learned that one way or another I was going to have to treat them.
 
Thankfully, the people I met shared the tools they used to properly treat the conditions I had. They showed me how to use them consistently day in and day out until all my addictions were at bay, and I was free.
 
 Over the years, I’ve had long periods where I’ve used the tools of recovery abundantly and consistently. Each time the result has been the same. One day I wake up with nothing but peace, love, and service in my heart and mind. I wake up with ‘treated’ alcoholism and addiction.
 
 Now mind you, this has never been anywhere close to a permanent state. But many times, after months and months of consistent meetings, reading, writing, self-examination, prayer, meditation, and immense amounts of service, I’ll wake up totally free, with this ‘treated’ alcoholism and addiction, day after day after day.
 
 But then out of the blue, the day always comes, when I awaken with my mind in doomsday mode, ready to give it all up, with ‘untreated’ alcoholism and addiction wanting to kill me once again.
 
 Thankfully, whenever this happens, I take the spiritual actions I’d been doing consistently all the days before, and the addiction and alcoholism are once again held at bay.
 
 Fortunately, or unfortunately, this is where I’ve been most recently. Untreated alcoholism is running my morning routine and I’m having to do significant amounts of work just to get grounded and centered, before heading out the door.
 
 But, I have faith, that as I continue to consistently take enormous amounts of spiritual action, one day in the not-too-distant future, I’ll wake up with “treated’ alcoholism yet again. Totally free, with nothing but peace, love, and service coursing through every fiber of my being.
 
Until then, I'll keep doing the daily work. How about you?

Today we close with a gratitude meditation to help bring peace and love into our hearts and minds. 

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