The Spiritual Malady Striving to quench our thirst for by Georgeann Sack

It is through the daily cleansing of perception through the process of the steps and the sharing with another addict that the addict is able to return to living as an integrated part of the whole of life. I have sought refuge from my negative emotions in alcohol, drugs and other addictive behaviours.

To conclude, it’s not my body — my allergic reaction to alcohol — that’s going to take me back to drinking. It’s really not my mind — the mental obsession — that is the underlying root of what will take me back to drinking. It’s the “spiritual malady”, as manifested by my EGO (selfishness-self-centeredness), that can eventually lead me back to drinking or sometimes even suicide. The disease of alcohol and drug addiction is not just mental and physical but also spiritual. The spiritual malady, however, can be seen as an inward unmanageability. It affects every aspect of our lives and must be overcome if we wish to fix ourselves mentally and physically. Jaywalker Lodge drug and alcohol treatment center offering a 12-step rehab immersion program in Colorado, for motivated men.

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Sins I believe are the poisoned fruit of fear, often helped along in alcoholics by false pride, shame and guilt. These defects are related to me being an alcoholic, they are intrinsic to spiritual malady my condition. I sin so naturally, effortlessly and usually without even trying. I believe my so-called defects of character are linked to my underlying emotional disorder of alcoholism.

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• I was the director in the drama of life and managing the world so I could get what I thought I needed to feel ok.
• My own example is that of a man who believed, and foolishly, that I had the brain power to understand and overcome any obstacle in life.
• I would have had empathy for where the newcomer “was at in his recovery” as I had been there once too.
• My “loss of control” over drinking is also linked to emotion processing difficulties as it prompted impulsive, uninhibited drinking.

And the book by Chuck C , A New Pair of Glasses, defining the SM as a feeling of consciously separated from God. I am aware that there are many paths to recovery- my path has been the 12-Steps. While this may not be for everybody, the principles contained within the steps and the program are applicable and useful to anyone seeking sobriety and recovery. Proponents of holistic medicine believe treating any condition requires treating the whole organism.

When a Spiritual Malady Becomes All Consuming

When I began to learn AA’s 12-Steps as a suggested program of spiritual healing, renewal, and change (i.e., recovery), I began to realize that I could explicitly understand Jewish practice from the same perspective. That is to say, daily Jewish spiritual practices are also intended to heal, renew and affect change. When I was in my own personal cycle of addiction, I was struggling with coping with the challenges of my career, marriage, and my own personal development. I did not know how to integrate my career identity with my personal identity in a healthy way; I did not know how to work through questions and problems in my marriage; and I did not know how to feel at home with myself. I knew I wanted to grow into becoming a better and more whole person, but did not know how to talk about it. I knew I wanted to feel spiritually rooted and connected, but I did not know where to turn nor did I believe anyone could help me get there. First things first, if anticipation of the future and what holds spiritually is alive, lay it down.

This differs from Western medicine, where the approach focuses on treating symptoms. Holistic medicine recognizes that people have physical, mental, spiritual and social needs.

thoughts on “The Spiritual Malady”

The spiritual illness that we faced acted as a catalyst for our addiction, and every attempt to self-medicate our spiritual malady pushed us deeper and deeper into the disease. For me the “spiritual malady” is underpinned by an emotion disorder and makes us over reactive as you say. The Oxford Group said it was a sin disease just as real as any other physical malady, I intend to agree. Sins to me are negative emotions such as self centredness, intolerance, impatience, self pity that impact on my well bing and the well being of others etc. Negative emotions that cut me off from sanity and reason. They do not necessarily come from a Judea-Christian belief structure, just from my own awareness, 12 step practice and years of Neursocience research.

This emotional immaturity is referenced throughout the Big Book I believe. For me this maladjustment to life is not exactly the same as the spiritual disease mentioned in the Oxford Group pamphlet. I am not advocating changing anything, I hope AA recovery remains as it is for 80 more years and much more years. I would not change one word in the first 164 pages of the BB. It is strange paradox, the more you focus on helping others, the more you discover how much you matter.

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The disease of alcohol is a mental obsession and physical compulsion to keep drinking. Alcoholics Anonymous promotes a spiritual cure as the best cure for alcoholism. Alcoholism is the name given to the disease which is treated by the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholism in this 12-Step sense of the word may still need some clarification. In the context of the literature of the recovery program, the books Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, alcohol is merely a symptom of the disease of alcoholism. Within this literature is mention of self-diagnosed alcoholics who struggled with other various substances and behaviors.

Hence I believe we should appreciate that this definition of our condition has been updated by research into emotions especially in the last 20 years. My recovery has thus since been about “growing up” a bit, however unsuccessful I am in this https://ecosoberhouse.com/ pursuit on occasion. My inventory showed me also that I did not seem to have the facility previously to emotionally respond to the world in a mature way. It shows the areas of behaviour and attitudes that can be treated by working the steps.