Getting and Staying Motivated, the Value in Drug Addiction Treatment Part 5
June 2nd, 2005 by Terry Keith
What Values And Beliefs Would Support Your Relapse Prevention Plan?
Think about the someone who it actively in their drug and alcohol addiction. Some one who definately needs drug rehab but won’t even consider going to rehab. What do they think about themselves and their future? If we truly want someone to stop abusing and drug or alcohol for that matter, what beliefs would help them most?
If you believed the following ideas totally and firmly, would it not aide in preventing relapse?
Everything you need is already inside of you
You have a valuable purpose to complete while you are on earth
Permanent change is possible
You are always free to make a better choice
The answer is obviously yes
People when faced with a crisis or difficult situation respond in one of two ways
Many ordinary people when faced with very challenging situations, find unbelievable courage, and risk or even lose their own life for a stranger they have never met. In other words they RAISED their standards.
Unfortunately the reverse is also true. Many people when faced with difficult challenges consistently and repeatedly lower their standards. As their level of spirituality and their values drift lower they find themselves exhibiting behaviors that several months or years before they would have never considered. Is this what happened during your addiction experience? Drug and alcohol abuse, take their toll on stardands. Many times the standards have sunk so low that drug rehab is the only viable choice. Rehabs are a safe place to look inward. Rehab is for change. Rehab is for growth.
The key is to realize that change in oneā??s level of spirituality and values is a choice. The way to deal with lifeā??s adversities and difficult situations is to RAISE your standards. In your heart you believe you can raise your standards and change your values or else you would not be reading this now.
Change comes about in two ways: by force or by choice. In drug and alcohol addiction treatment change by force is temporary and weak at best. It is change by choice the makes the difference. People who choose on their own to enter a rehab usually have a much better outcome. I’ll talk about how to make that choice tomorrow.
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