How do we start this recovery dance

So you find yourself here at the beginning. 

What is required? 

What is the first step? 

What can you expect in this recovery process?

Well my first job as a teacher is to put you at ease. The hurdles you have to jump are not that big of a deal. The spiritual process can be a tumultuous one but it's all going to be ok.  It's a  grand adventure. My job is to go through the process with you and let you know where the ground is.  I can do that by sharing my own experience and holding your heart along the way. It's not going to be easy at times and it's going to require a commitment and a devotion to the process.  This process will align your energies in such a way so you can experience life to its fullest. We want as much ease and comfort as is possible. This process has to be a priority in your life. Why? Because every outside situation in our lives is the result of who we are at this moment on the inside. The whole goal of any recovery or spiritual process is to align you with the forces and the flow of the cosmos, so we can experience life to its fullest. So that's what we are going to do.

How do we do that?

We do this by getting rid of all the things that get in the way of that. A great yogi once told me that the recovery I sought was already inside of me. My job was to remove all the muck and conditioning that I’d accumulated so I could experience it directly.  My job in recovery is not to accumulate more information, it's to empty the vessel. It's to lighten the load. Self knowledge we found out avails us nothing anyway. In this process we are going to incorporate and do things that eventually lighten our load so we can walk around happy, joyous and free. That is the promise. This takes a willingness to discover something new.

So the first step is to admit we do not know. We also have to admit that we don’t know where this process is going to take us. Then the next step is we have to get on the train of action and ride. This will enable us to have a new experience of ourselves. The vehicle we ride is simply  a self-inquiry process  mixed with a somatic practices that open and balance our system. This is our discipline. Most people think freedom is doing whatever the hell you want. But freedom is about discipline. This enables us to experience a new dimension of ourselves. 

A second very important element that is required is radical acceptance of who we are and the predicament we find ourselves in. We may have done terrible things, we may have found ourselves in all kinds of sordid places. We might not feel very good about ourselves. But we have to accept where we are as part of our path. We cant be taking these actions of recovery and spirituality to deliver us from all our evils. We have to start where we are with a clean slate. This can be difficult. Most of us crawled into recovery in a really bad place. But we still have to accept and love ourselves for who we are right now. We go from there.

We start with a program of action that embraces our everyday activities and then investigate how we respond to this thing called life

Our ultimate goal is to realize ourselves as a piece of life.

So put your mind at ease and we will go on a great adventure.

The adventure is recovery