Every drug and alcohol rehab program has strong points.  The real core issues that need to be addressed in changing an addictive experience into a life well lived are not secrets.  Why then is it so difficult to change?  Why cannot someone simply stop negitive behaviors and move on to more positive ones?  In regular everyday life, why is so much of today's behavior simply a copy of yesterday with a new date on it?

It boils down to the power of distraction.  Instead of focusing on the real powerful and life changing things we can do today we simply get distracted by other stuff.  In day to day life we get caught up in paying the bills.  We get haircuts and wash the car.  We gossip and "solve" other people's problems.  We relive the past and rehash all the sins and mistakes others have commited against us.  Why?   I think it is because it is easier that doing the work to change.

This is where the true power of a drug rehab center lays.  It has removed 90 % of the distractions that keep us from the important stuff.  It also provides the stucture to force us to show up and do it.  However what is interesting is that even with 90 % of these distractions removed, clients still find distractions to keep them from change sometimes.  A real common one is the focus on changing the drug rehab program instead of changing themselves.  They look for what is wrong with what is being taught and what is wrong with the other clients instead of what is wrong with themselves.  They work to change the conditions in the rehab instead of the conditions in their life.

You can change your focus in a minute.  A great question will do it in  a second.  "What is the one thing I could work on right now that would make the greatest impact on my addiction?"  If you ask yourself this question several times a day, you will have an amazing life changing experience at drug rehab.

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