4 Experiments that You Should do in Your Recovery

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4 Experiments that You Should Do in Your Recovery
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Why Experiments?
Recovery is a learning process and if you are not
learning anything in your recovery then it is
likely that you are not making much personal
growth either. Instead of just blindly crashing
your way through recovery, it pays for you to
actually measure what it is that you are
doing. This is what I mean by doing experiments
really the secret is in simply raising your
awareness, measuring what is working for you (and
what is not), and also taking some simple
suggestions.
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4 Experiments that You Should do in Your
Recovery1. Traditional Recovery2. Feedback
from Others3. Exercise4. Personal Growth
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1. Traditional Recovery
The modern recovery landscape is dominated by the
12 step program. So, in early recovery you might
be wise to go with the flow and accept whatever
support you are given. That said, I would not
suggest becoming dependent on those programs for
decades at a time. So give meetings a chance,
even if you are strongly turned off by them.
Measure your success (or lack thereof). Use this
information to plot a future course of growth.
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2. Feedback from Others
This is one of the most important things that you
can learn to do in your entire recovery journey.
Taking suggestions from others increases your
effectiveness and you free up your own mental
cycles to be more mentally productive. Simply,
find people you trust and ask them for advice.
Take action, evaluate, learn, and grow. Rinse and
repeat. Recovery is personal growth.
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3. Exercise
In fact, exercise basically became my meditation.
The benefits that I get from regular jogging are
exactly the same as the benefits of meditation.
The only difference that I notice is that I am
also getting an intense physical workout as well.
Make a full one year commitment to exercise. I
dont think anyone would argue that this is a
total waste of time. If you have the discipline
to keep at it for a long time then eventually you
will cross this point where the exercise becomes
easy, light, funa true gift.
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4. Personal Growth
Most people are on auto-pilot in life. But
recovery is about more than that. It is about
personal growth. If you are not making personal
growth, this leads to relapse in long term
recovery. Raising your awareness, measuring your
success in recovery and taking suggestions from
other people are healthy tactic. It is like
building a protective moat around your recovery.
If you are not pushing yourself to make positive
changes then you are not building any protection
from relapse in the future.
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