Recently, I talked about: “We can’t think our way out of addiction, we have to feel our way through,” because our thinking mind is constructed from our conditioned past. Everything we already know is hardwired into our brain, which is the reason we are here: our addictive thought patterns get wired and triggered by our conditioned thought patterns that were hard-wired during our dysfunctional past. We can’t think our way out of addiction because our hard-wired past controls our mind, and our conditioned thought patterns trigger the wiring of our addiction thought patterns into action.
I also discussed how science has determined that our heart has its own functional brain with a complex nervous system, hormonal system, and even non-physical intuitive (spiritual) communication pathways that influence our perceptions, decision-making, and other cognitive processes independent of our thinking mind. In addition, the heart has its own electromagnetic field, stronger than the brain’s, that attracts or repulses people we meet and affects relationships we welcome or those we try to avoid, based on the energy projected between us.
The heart is the source of our true Nature, which can act independently. The heart is our portal for universal Life Energy—Love—to constantly flow through us, causing our heart to beat and lungs to breathe. When our thinking mind is quiet, our heart has the intuition and power to guide us with an unrestricted flow of Love energy to live our lives differently than how our hardwired brain, addicted to our conditioned past, has been leading us.
The bad news is we can’t change our past wiring; the good news is we can create new wiring. That is what neuroplasticity is all about. The human brain has evolved the flexibility to build new wiring patterns and override old and unused patterns. When we stay sober, by doing things differently, by living differently, we start wiring a sober lifestyle pattern together that gets stronger by firing the different neuron connections more often than the old patterns, which causes the old wiring to “dry up,” and, over time, our addiction neuron patterns can stop firing. Then, after our new wiring is strong enough to maintain our sobriety, we can start rewiring around our past conditioning, to keep the past from triggering our old addictions and from creating new ones.
The first step to creating new wiring in our brains is to wake up and be aware of our old wiring. Staying aware means staying sober, not escaping the reality of the present moment, and avoiding our feelings by firing our old addiction thought patterns. It means non-judgmentally observing our thinking and what our mind is doing. Staying aware, by focusing on the mind, calms our thinking from firing those addiction-wired thought patterns, and a lack of firing them will cause them to “dry up” and go dormant.
Finally, rewiring the brain is why we are all here. We are here to take a break from constantly repeating the past in our minds. We are here to learn how to live differently, to create new wiring in our brains. We need to understand how our mind and heart can work together to create a new lifestyle of activities and thought patterns that don’t trigger our addictions into action, and elevate our Consciousness from the negative levels of—past—shame, guilt, grief, fear, and anger, to recognize the positive Conscious levels—in the present moment—of courage, willingness, acceptance, love, joy, and peace in our lives.
So, that’s what we should be talking about: now that we have detoxed and taken a break from our habitual lifestyle, how are we planning to live differently when we leave Recovery, to keep from plugging in our old wiring and relapsing into our addictions? What have we identified in our lifestyle that needs to change to keep us from relapsing, and what tools are we learning to give us a fighting chance to stay sober, while we make our lifestyle changes and rewire our lives?
I Love you guys!
VAB 05-07-25
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