6 SURE-SHOT STEPS TO TURN NEGATIVE EMOTIONS INTO POSITIVE ACTION We have all felt sometimes that life would have been better if we had taken a different path. If only you had taken that job, ended that relationship sooner or moved to another city, everything would have been perfect. It’s human nature to hang on […]
News
Harm Reduction or Abstinence – which is better in Addiction Treatment?
Primarily, there are two addiction treatment strategies available for drug addicts and alcoholics – harm reduction and abstinence. Proponents of both these methods claim high success rates by quoting medical research and statistics. It is relevant to compare the two modalities to enable the individual to choose what suits him or her best. Harm […]
Read more about Harm Reduction or Abstinence – which is better in Addiction Treatment? →
Why is Home-Based Addiction Treatment So Effective?
Alcoholics is a progressive ‘disease’ and the individual faces increasing problems in all areas of his or her life – health, relationships, self-esteem, career, education and reputation. Inevitably, he or she will face an unprecedented crisis and realise that they have to seek professional support for getting out of the deadly cycle of addiction. There […]
Read more about Why is Home-Based Addiction Treatment So Effective? →
Lessons Learnt in Recovery from Addiction
In an active Addiction, many of us caused significant harms. The lies and broken promises meant we often hurt others when their only crime was to love us. Those who tried to help us would be pushed away, told to mind their own business and resented for the audacity of suggesting that our behaviour might […]
How to Achieve Happiness with Acceptance
Most of us fail to see reality. We see things as we believe them to be, or wish them to be. Examples are all around us. Whether it’s religious beliefs, or political affiliations, or our sense of beauty or ugliness. Discrimination based on colour or community stems from this. Our beliefs arise from our upbringing, […]
What’s your purpose in life?
We are all born and start our journey in life towards inexorable and inevitable termination. The years between birth and death is the period we have goals with or without a conscious purpose. The purpose keeps changing as we grow. As children, our purpose will be vastly different from what it may be as adults […]
From Pride to Humility
One of the main characteristics of an alcoholic or addict is his self-centeredness. He or she is full of pride, though there may be little he can be proud of. He may be lying in the gutter, but still looks down upon others. “Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting […]
Life is a terminal disease
Life is full of change. Ever-changing, never still. Change is the only constant. Youth comes and goes; beauty and pleasure are transitory. The sun, nature, matter – all are in flux. Nothing lasts, not even sorrow. However, this fact escapes attention when we are young or even in middle age. In youth, one feels it […]
My journey into meditation
Ways to develop, practise and reasons to be patient. Meditation and I have never gone hand in hand. I’ve often been closed-minded and reluctant to build it into my daily routine. When I first started attending 12 Step recovery meetings, it was the mention of meditation that made me recoil, more than the word prayer. […]
My Journey from Addiction to Recovery
Sometime in July 2011, I attended my first Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting. Up until that point I had always claimed I could get clean whenever I wanted, just as long it was never the current day I was on. I was a man of “next’s”; “oh, I’ll get clean next week”, “next Monday”, “next month” […]