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Necessary before and during work on the 12 Steps.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

There are things that are necessary before one successfully takes on working on the 12 Steps when in Recovery.  While these things will not be mastered before starting the 12 step process they will be dealt with as one moves through the program.  Being aware of their existence in the beginning of the program is vital.

1.  Taking Suggestions.  Taking suggestions is one of the primary things necessary for one to successfully do recovery.  Without it the individual will most likely fail.  ”The first requirement is that we be convinced that a life run on self will can hardly be a success.”

2.  Connecting with another human being.  Creating and maintaining a relationship with another person, a sponsor or counselor or both, is absolutely necessary for one to be guided through the 12 step process.  The individual can not do it by himself or herself.

3.  Being open to being confronted.  Without confrontation we do not seem to change.  While the confrontation can take a variety of forms it is vital for change to take place.  Without ones belief and thinking system being challenged it will remain the same and with it the individual’s behavior.

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Communication and Following Suggestions for Recovery.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

There are some “steps” necessary before someone can successfully complete the twelve step program of either AA or NA.  While someone can learn these as they start the process and in some cases will only be learn them by engaging in the step work, the “steps” before the steps are fundamentally necessary for completing them.   The ‘steps” to which I refer are about communicating with another human being and following suggestions.

The first has to do with communication.  No recovery or transformation takes place without communcating with another human being.  For those in recovery this will appear as communication with a sponsor or therapist or hopefully both.  Changing or transforming by oneself will eventually turn out to be very difficult if not impossible for most individuals.  We tend to repeat that which we have.  To get something new we have to look to another human being to assist us in our getting it, in our transformation.

The second “step” has to do with following suggestions.  Following suggestions is fundamental to transforming our life.  Many people early in recovery have a great deal of difficulty following suggestions and tend to believe that they know how to do recovery or want to do it their way, possibly the easier, softer way.  To do recovery the way it was meant to be done a person has to follow suggestions, especially from his or her sponsor or therapist.

In the process of recovery these two “steps” work together.  For one to do recovery the way it was meant to be done and to do it completely, he or she has to communicate with another human being and in that communication be able to follow the suggestions given.  If one does not connect with another he or she will not follow the suggestions of another human being further along in recovery and will have a tendency to generate the same as that which was done in the past.  The past will continue to repeat itself until we connect with another and take suggestions designed to transform our life.

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Our Nature as Human Being Involves Resistance.

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As human beings we do not really want or like to change.  We like for things to be the same, for us not to have to put forth much effect to have what we say we want.  We do not want to change and even, will resist change especially if another human being attempts to help us.  Yes, we do change but we have to first get it that we do not want to change.  Accepting our resistance is important for the process.  We must first accept the fact that we will resist change in order for us to take it into consideration in our planning to transform our lives.  It is important for us to plan and to make goals but it is equally important for us to plan how we will resist the process, will resist our achieving the goals we set.  Such planning gives us power to respond appropriately when needed.

In my work in recovery I counsel people in how to recognize when they are resisting, when they are doing things to counter the goals they set and say they want.  Such insight is important and necessary if individuals are to say in the program of recovery.  The resistance will also show up in the very suggestions that are given, by a sponsor or therapist.  The tendency is not only to resist but to continue to do it his or her way, with the results usually the same, much of how it was in the past.  Our tendency is to try to do things and life our way, even when we continue to get the same results.

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Combining Positive Affirmations and Therapeutic Relaxation Music.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing is in the process of developing two programs for combining positive affirmations and therapeutic relaxation music.  As we know, when a person listens to the therapeutic relaxation music, especially with headphones, a very relaxed audio environment is created.  When a person becomes relaxed the delivery of positive affirmations is much more effective, in fact the positive affirmations take on being like hypnotic suggestions, suggestions to help to transform the person’s sense of self and inner conversation.

The first program will be approximately 30 minutes long and the second about 10 mins long.  There will be listenings that combines therapeutic relaxation music and positive affirmations as well as others that will add the sounds of nature, stream, ocean, forest and rain to the music and affirmations.  There will also be positive affirmations mixed with only the sounds of nature.

It is suggested that one use these programs daily.  Furthermore, there will be 16 different topics, ranging from self esteem, relaxation, smoking, confidence to sleep.

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Affirmations for Recovery from Drugs and Alcohol

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

The use of positive affirmations can be very powerful, can help a person to enhance their life and even strengthen ones recovery.  Below are positive affirmations for recovery from Drugs and Alcohol.  Using these affirmations daily can strengthen ones overall program of recovery.

1.  I am grateful for the things and people in my life.

2.  I am open minded.  I am willing to learn.

3.  I trust and allow others to help me.  I follow suggestions.

4.  I am responsible for everything that I think, say, fell and do.

5.  I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

6.  I have the courage to change the things I can change.

7.  I love everything about myself.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

8.  I am willing to change.

9.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.  I love my life.

10.  I accept the things that I can not change.

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Taking suggestions is one of the keys to recovery and transforming your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Our tendency is to continue in the direction that we are headed.  Our tendency is to continue in the direction that we are headed unless something happens that will create a necessity to alter our chosen path.  Once we pause to contemplate the direction that we are headed and begin to consider a possibility our life we do enter a space of true change and transformation.  For us to utilize the insight that is generated from this space will require that we seek the assistance of another person, of another human being.  If we do not seek the assistance of another person our tendency will be to get back into the habitual way of being from which we came, that created our current life situation.  This requires that we communicate with another person and allow that individual to help direct us, to assist us in our journey.  No recovery or transformation takes place unless we communicate with another human being.  To gain the benefits of this communication requires that we take suggestions from another human being.

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Taking Suggestions

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

There is a line in the Big Book that is crucial to the recovery process for anyone, for a person in AA or NA. “The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.” It makes reference to being the first requirement for a very important reason. The implication from this line is about taking suggestions. In the beginning of the recovery process the ability of a person to accept and follow suggestions will make a big difference in whether or not he or she is able to do recovery successfully. It may even been what keeps a person alive or not. It is one of the first components of my work with other in recovery that gets processed and discussed, both in group and individual settings. How a person is in their ability to follow suggestions needs to be confronted and processed almost immediately as most individuals in recovery want to do life their way.

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