What has changed in the way I am living now that gives me the strength to lose touch with who I was in my past addictions? How am I letting go of mental and physical attachments, gracefully allowing those addictive thoughts, things, and others to fade away, to be free from repeating the past, free enough to trust and love myself again, to let go of the illusions of psychological security and certainty in time and start embracing the uncertainty of life, unafraid of the ever-changing present moment?
I need to remember that the root cause of all addictions is my addiction to thinking: constantly identifying with my dead memories, cultural traditions, societal values, and prejudicial beliefs that I have learned in the past, and I project to control my future. If I lose touch with who I think I am in time, the illusion of my ego no longer exists to react to what is happening now based on imagined survival tactics. Now, my true Self-awareness can respond with the creative freedom of understanding the reality of the present moment.
Self-awareness means losing touch with time: letting go of thinking I am divided by the conflict of relying on what I know from the past to control the unknown in the future. I can only act with intelligence if my mind is free to understand the feelings flowing through my heart now. True Self-awareness means letting go of thinking I am separated by skin from others and the natural world around me. The illusion of psychological security is the limitation that blocks the truth of reality, that all creation is connected by the same universal energy source—Love—my Higher Power.
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