Can The Wisdom From Addiction Recovery Save Humanity?

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I have recently been enriched from the wise counsel of some younger people suggesting ways that my life’s work in addictions, trauma healing and Focalizing can be more relevant for the needs of current times. Several participants from last year’s Focalizing workshops, along with TheInstitute.org, (the non-profit community that has supported my work for many years) are helping me connect the dots between segments of my own research and practice. In short, there has been encouragement to merge my Stage Two Recovery techniques with those from Focalizing.

Stage One addictions recovery is a recovery from a destructive obsession that wreaks suffering in our lives and family systems. This can be from a substance, as well as from an addiction to conditioned thinking which causes destructive patterns. Stage Two is the recovery of our emotional, spiritual and sexual wholeness, while Focalizing offers guidance for a natural path of healing and moving forward with grace.

This powerful reshaping of my work to incorporate these previously separate factions utilizes the tools and community of addictions recovery. As Dr. M. Scott Peck said in The Road Less Traveled: I think of addiction as the sacred disease. Very probably, God created alcoholism in order to create AA, and thereby spearhead the community movement which is going to be the salvation not only of alcoholics and addicts, but of us all. Perhaps this healing path really is a way to positively impact the world.

As one of my wise, younger advisors, Barry Lipscomb takes it even further in a question that guides his daily endeavors: “How do we affect a mass conscious awakening which encourages sustainable living?” Healing ourselves in a way that has a positive impact for humanity and the planet; what could be better? Read my latest article titled Focalizing Stage Two Recovery: The Spiritual Core (click for entire article reprint) published by GoodTherapy.org. And stay tuned for developments on our emerging future as we begin to offer retreats, workshops, presentations, and interactive online venues.

Wish us well, as we wish the same for all of you.

Michael

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