Week 4 Replay – Transcending The Three Poisons and The Three Fears

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Here is your Week 4 Video Replay (142 minutes) along with links to the resources that go with the Week 4 Video.

Week 4 – Transcending The Three Poisons and The Three Fears

Links to Current Week 4 Materials:

1. Zoom Replay Video (165 minutes) (linked below)
2. Slide Deck PDF (35 pages)

Week 4 Recommended Action Plan:

1. Watch the Replay Video 1-2 times (once if you attended the live class and twice if you didn’t attend the class).
2. Read the Slide Deck PDF 1-2 times (and take notes, make lists, etc).
3. Review what was covered during Weeks 1-3 (Another look-over will help you to summarize what you’ve learned thus far; and “repetition is the mother of skill”).
4. Write about the Dynamics Between Alcohol, Your Relationship to Alcohol, as well as Aversion, Attachment, and Ignorance. In your journal, write down your experience with the addictive use of Alcohol and The Three Poisons. Specifically, write about your Attachment in the past to alcohol, drinking alcohol, the effects of alcohol, the state alcohol put you in, etc. Next, write about Alcohol and Aversion. How have you used alcohol as an escape to avoid or run away from things you dislike (including difficult feelings and emotions)? Or to make boring or stressful things/people/places more tolerable? Finally, write about your experience with Alcohol and Ignorance. Has Ignorance been a barrier to long-term progress in alcohol recovery? Writing about Your Relationship with Alcohol and how it interplays with Attachment, Aversion, and Delusion will help you rewire your brain, reprogram your mind, and refortify your resolve.

Week 4 Recommend Extra-Credit Action Step:

• Listen to the book titled Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise by Thich Nhat Hahn, Narrated by Dan Woren; free to listen to on YouTube (3 hours, 18 minutes).

And if you have any questions please email, text, or call me anytime!

– Matt Finch