12/18/2022 0 Comments Serenity prayer with serenity symbol![]() We’re talking about the spirituality of adolescence, which is without question the most spiritual time we live through. We’re talking about walking out in the desert – about feeling lost and without clear direction or guidance. We should also consider the question, “What is spiritual development about?” Many of us think, “Well, yeah, I meditate, I do this, I do that.” But when we’re talking about drug and alcohol treatment or severe trauma, that’s not the kind of spirituality we’re talking about. ![]() Acupuncture easily accomplishes this present-ness. If you are meditating or relaxing, you need to be where you are and not bring in the past or jump to the future. Privacy, lightness and solitude belong to us - and not to the sound system.Īnother aspect of spiritual development is that people can learn to be in the present - one day at a time, one minute at a time, one second at a time. Quiet is something we develop - it can’t be measured in decibels. Later, I understood their behavior, realizing that many people have a mental air hammer going all the time, and, therefore, have learned to tolerate merely external noises. Generally, if you are in a setting like that and the person of authority shows annoyance, people get riled up. So the air hammer started, and I turned around and looked at the patients. It was insulting and contrary to what our program was about. Workers brought in an air hammer at 10 in the morning with about 20 patients sitting around. I remember one time in the midst of one of our many administrative harassments, our director wanted to drill a hole in the cement floor of the acupuncture room. I can have solitude and privacy even when other people are around.” You are able to affirm, “I’m not only lighter, but I’m within my own space. Even in settings like 12-Step groups, spiritual development is still essentially a personal and private matter. Secondly, acupuncture relates to spiritual development through the awareness or experience of solitude and privacy. Acupuncture is productive therapy and helps therapists be more effective in what they already do. ![]() Enlightenment also has a lot to do with the 12-step phrase, “Let go.” If you let go of authority and control, you will, in turn, gain it. Your memories are lighter, your experience of trauma is lighter, your burdens are lighter. Things move quicker, Qi moves more easily.Įnlightenment means you are lighter in regards to all the associations therapists like to bring up. I believe acupuncture is very much about enlightenment. In the Buddhist sense of enlightenment, your body is lighter, your stress is lighter. First of all, you have the idea of enlightenment in spiritual development. ![]() I use the word “spiritual” because I think it is so commonly used in the drug and alcohol recovery field that we are not frightened by the term. It has become clear to me as time goes on that when people ask what acupuncture is about, it’s quite a bit different than what some people might understand, though many of us already do understand what I am teaching. This isn’t easy - it has to grow out of personal experiences. The other is the ability to integrate what acupuncture is about with what substance abuse recovery, and substance abuse treatment, is about. The first is the ability to put needles in appropriately and correctly, and to run the group setting and so on. When I do the training program at Lincoln, I point out to students that we’re really training them in two abilities, each one expanding upon the other. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things Presented at NADA Annual Conference in New York City, 1995. ![]()
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