Fulfilled Life Recovery Meditation

In active addiction, collateral damage includes our self-worth and relationships that we consider important. Recovery gives us the opportunity to grow in compassion towards ourselves, and heal broken relationships. In today's meditation, we work to extend lovingkindness to ourselves and to others.

Acceptance is a key component to recovery. Sometimes our past is greeted with feelings of regret, guilt and even shame. However, when we practice acceptance, we allow the past to be a learning experience; a key contributor to the strength we experience today. In this mediation, we focus our intent on allowing every event and person from the past to be our teacher.

Anxious thoughts can be very overbearing. They can take us places we don't want to go. For the recovering person, anxiety and stress can be lethal triggers. Through meditation we can learn to observe our anxious thoughts, and begin to lessen their impact.

Spirituality is the ability to connect with something larger than ourselves. In today's meditation, we focus on being connected with our Higher Power, with others, and with ourselves.

A meditation to relax our body in preparation for a restful night of sleep.

The messages we convey to ourselves are crucial. One benefit of mindfulness is to be aware of those messages, and begin to practice positive self-talk. In today's episode, we meditate on appropriate, affirming messages that will build our positive mental state.

Similar to episode 5, the Tree House meditation offers the ability to retreat to a quiet, peaceful place when we are feeling stressed or overwhelmed. You can use this meditation after or in anticipation of a stressful event.

Our bodies are designed to handle stress in the short term, however, with a global pandemic, we are in a heightened and prolonged period of stress. For the person in recovery, old coping mechanisms can only add to the stress. We need healthy coping strategies. In this meditation, Scott walks us through the understanding of our physiological response to stress, and using the mindful technique of breathing, leads in a meditation that allows us to return to a peaceful emotional state.

Research, and more importantly, our experience has shown us we need support when we are struggling. In recovery, the fight is long and hard. The same is true with any trauma or depression. We need others to help us in the fight. This episode is a guided meditation designed to help us understand how important supportive people are in our lives, and be grateful for their support.

Negative self-talk can be destructive, and at times it is automatic. Messages from our past continually try to ruin our present and our future. Engaging in positive self-talk can unlock doors and take us to places that we truly desire. This guided meditation focuses on positive self-talk.

This mindfulness practice helps us deal with tension and negative energy by relaxation.

These can be difficult times, unprecedented times. This meditation teaches us to access our "inner refuge" to welcome in peace and calm anytime we need.

For the person in recovery, difficult life issues can serve as a reservation for relapse. However, just because we are in recovery, life does not go on hold. The daily ups and downs, as well as major life stressors, will occur. We need to build stability in our lives to handle whatever may come next. This meditation focuses on being stable through life's challenges.

Internal triggers can be really challenging for the person in recovery. Mindful meditation can assist us in being aware of what we are thinking and feeling without becoming attached. In this meditation, we walk through an exercise that will assist us in building the skill of cultivating awareness.

In recovery, changing our thinking is primary. This includes having proper perspective on our past, our present, and our future. Negative core beliefs are like a tape recorded message playing over and over in our minds, telling us we are not worthy of the promises of recovery. This meditation will assist you in changing your negative core beliefs and cultivating positive mental states.

The addicted person has a choice until a drink or drug is ingested, then the ability to choose is gone. This meditation focuses on setting a daily intention to choose recovery over addiction.

This episode is to introduce Fulfilled Life Recovery Meditation podcast season 1. These mindfulness based meditations are designed to aid persons who are in recovery deal with stress and anxiety, as well as set positive intentions for daily living.