In episode 182 of The Elevation Recovery Podcast, Chris Scott and Matt Finch discuss strategies and concepts for beating addiction that go way against popular mainstream recovery rules.
The way you view yourself, addiction, recovery, and the world can either help you achieve your recovery goals or they can act as an obstacle.
Beliefs, identity, language, self-talk, and your unique model of the world are valuable resources when optimized. As an example, Chris and Matt discuss Demi Lovato’s recent interview with Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience and specifically her ‘California Sober’ self-label (she says this means she is using cannabis in her recovery and she is fearful of offending people with her choices).
The co-hosts discuss mainstream recovery ideology and the dangers of being inauthentic with how you talk about your addiction and/or recovery for fear of upsetting others that have been indoctrinated into the ‘one-path recovery myth’ (that one path being total abstinence from all mind-altering substances for the rest of your life).
Here are some of the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Why it’s so helpful to adopt an internal locus of control to overcome addiction and achieve other life goals (versus having an external locus of control)
- The concept of taking extreme ownership for your life’s successes and failures and everything in-between
- Why being a victim and holding onto that energy is counterproductive for growth and transformation
- How the protagonist in movies, books, and shows rarely has a victim mentality and usually has an ownership mindset (at least by some point in their character development)
- How meditation helped Chris Scott in early recovery
- Benefits of doing the inner-work through silence and meditation
- Common difficulties people have when trying to be still through meditation
- How you can handle life stressors and challenges while remaining grounded and centered most of the time
- Benefits of present-moment immersion as life practice for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual optimization
- How Chris thinks about and talks about his hearing issue from a fetal alcohol syndrome birth (vs the mainstream medicine terminology and prognosis)
- Benefits of having a push-pull relationship with certain personality traits
- The concept of homo sapiens being both ‘human animal’ and ‘human spirit’ and how human animal often drives our impulses, behaviors, and habits
- The concept of reincarnation and U.S. authors that have written books on their work regressing hypnotherapy patients into their lives between lives (in the soul realm without physical form)
- Benefits of having faith in a God (or Gods) or a higher power, universal oversoul
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