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ASKING WHY

Don’t ask why the addiction, ask why the pain.

Quote by Gabor Mate 

Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including on autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions,  and a wide range of other conditions.

Dr. Maté, renowned addiction expert, calls for a compassionate approach toward addiction, whether in ourselves or in others. Dr. Maté believes that the source of addictions is not to be found in genes but in the early childhood environment. In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, his most recent best-selling book, draws on cutting-edge science and real-life stories to show that all addictions originate in trauma and emotional loss.

REFLECTION:

  • Is there a pain you are suffering?
  • Is there some “addiction” that is covering up the pain?
  • Are you willing to face into the pain?

THE SHINING SUN

Unconditional love is not the hole in us that receives the dirt, but the sun that never stops shining.

FROM:  THE BOOK OF AWAKENING: Having the Life You Want By Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo

REFLECTION:

  • How freely do you offer unconditional love?
  • BE THE SUN shining today (with unconditional love).

TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Be Ground.

Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

You’ve been stony for too many years. 

Try something different.

Surrender.

Poem by Rumi – a 13th Century Persian Poet

REFLECTION:

  • Is there something that you have been “stony” about for too long?
  • How can you surrender?