Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Your Spiritual Growth In A Treatment Center

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By Elliot Knowls


One of the hardest life lessons in a drug and alcohol treatment facility is the amount of spiritual growth that you have to go through. It is important to know how important it is to grow spiritually. The reason why many people are addicted to drug and alcohol is because they are struggling to understand that a higher power loves them. A higher power is often a God that has disappointed the person that is doing drugs. Drug addiction has a lot to do with irresponsible living or feeling like nobody cares.

When a person decides to become sober, they are often looking for a miracle cure. They want all of the pain and sorrow from their life to go away. Most people take drugs because they feel like nobody cares about them and like there is no more hope. In reality, hope exists because we are out there looking for it. We have to take notice to our lives because it depends on our personal growth and knowledge. Life in general takes time and we all have a spiritual path in which we need to grow. We look at life as being something that is hard to control. When you think about it, our lives depend on things working out better for us in the end.

Try to understand what the world would be like if you were sober. Your family and friends would learn more about you. You would begin to see a love for people and what you truly stand for. It's never easy to be an addict and convince people that you are okay. Allow your faith to begin moving mountains. Begin to feel like everything is eventually going to turn around for you. If you are like me, you probably want to find your sobriety quickly. Being sober takes time and lots of discipline. You must really want to be sober or else you will never learn what being sober is all about. It is all about learning and growing with time. When you look back into your life, you begin to focus on the changes that are inside of you. In the end, you begin to realize that in life, you have a lot of strong will power for change. Change happens when you least expect.

You need to find out what makes the most sense and then go after it. Don't worry if it doesn't make much sense to you at first. The truth of the matter is that nobody knows you the best except for you and God. Once you find out that God actually does care about you, you will find it easier to grow in your treatment. I would say that the #1 reason why people overcome their addiction is because of their faith. Bill Wilson (the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous) said that he could not overcome his addiction to alcohol until he was able to combine his faith. Once he added his faith into the mix, he found it easy to overcome his addiction. He learned to deal with his addictions and not let them destroy his life. Before that, he was in and out of hospitals trying to find his sobriety.

There is a lot of truth in our sobriety. It says that we can no longer live a life of disappointing ourselves and other people. When a person takes responsibility, they begin to see their growth working out naturally. It is a blessing to see growth working for so many people in the world today. It is a true blessing to be sober. Take some time to meditate and grow close to Jesus. In this way, you can fully know how much God loves you. Spiritual books and the Holy Bible always bring us closer to God.




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