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Corso di 10 giorni

Break The Vicious Cycle Of Addiction

Di Valerie (vimalasara) Mason-John

Cosa imparerai

Addiction is the behaviour of habitually turning away from direct experience happening in the moment, despite the fact that it will have negative consequences. The more we turn away from what is going on in the body, the more we will be trapped on the vicious cycle of addiction. Mindfulness teaches us to become aware of the body, feeling tone in the body, the breath, and be with our direct experience. When we learn to come home to the body, to be with mental pain and anguish, we begin to free ourselves from the vicious cycle of addiction. During our 10 sessions, I will share some of the mindfulness teachings that gave me freedom and liberation from the hell realm of addiction and compulsive behaviours.

Valerie (vimalasara) Mason-John

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dr Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John (Hon.doc) M.A is one of the leading African descent voices in the field of Mindfulness for Addiction. She is the award winning author of Eight Step Recovery, Using The Buddha’s Teaching to Overcome Addiction, Detox Your Heart - Meditations for Emotional Trauma, and the co-founder of Mindfulness Based Addiction...

Lezione 1

The Vicious Cycle

In this opening session we slow down the process of what is happening before we pick up our choice of addiction or engage in our choice of compulsive behaviours. When we become aware of what is happening in the body, with our feelings, thoughts and emotions, it may help to interrupt our addictive and compulsive behaviours and or relapse. Each session we begin with a breathing space, to help begin to train the mind to come back to what is happening in the body.

Lezione 2

Becoming Aware Of Our Triggers

We can not avoid our triggers. Yes, it is good to become aware of our triggers, because it can help us to be vigilant if we know we are going to be in an environment where these triggers may be present. Today we will take a look at our triggers, and how we can work with them.

Lezione 3

Coming Home To The Body

Mindfulness teaches us to come back to the body. The journey of recovery is learning to find our way back to the body. But some of us have lost our way home, because our bodies were violated in childhood. We have to relearn that our body can be one of the safest place we could ever inhabit. The breath is the guide back into the body. In today’s guided meditation we come home to the body by practising mindful breathing in the body.

Lezione 4

Understanding Our Feelings

Mindfulness teaches us, that the body will produce feeling, and that feeling tone in the body is unavoidable. We can not escape feeling. But what we can do, is begin to notice that feeling tone, is sensation in the body, pleasant, unpleasant, neutral. And if given space will change and even dissipate. In today’s guided meditation I will take you through a body scan. A journey of exploring feeling tone in the body.

Lezione 5

Thoughts Are Not Facts

When we are controlled by our thoughts, we make interpretations, believing our thoughts to be true. Based on those interpretations, we make decisions, which can have detrimental outcomes for our recovery. In this session we will begin to see that our thoughts are not facts, they are just mental events arising and passing, like all other events in our live.

Lezione 6

Exploring Our Emotions

Our thoughts and emotions can be so fleeting and subtle that we might believe they don’t matter. However, they shape our speech and bodily actions. In this session I am inviting you to be with your emotions like anger, while breathing into the body, and allowing your emotions to arise and cease, like the waves in an ocean.

Lezione 7

Stinking Thinking

Stinking thinking, make up the stories we tell ourselves. They are the superego disguised in the voice of a negative parent or adult, who told us unkind things in childhood. In this session we see how we create the extra dramas in our lives, that can keep us stuck on the vicious cycle of addiction.

Lezione 8

Actions Have Consequences

Actions have consequences. Every time we relapse we are at risk of going around and around the vicious cycle of addiction. In this session explore how actions like blame, self pity and distraction can sabotage our abstinence and sobriety of mind.

Lezione 9

What We Can Learn From Our Addictive Behaviours

Understanding what we gain can help us cultivate, self compassion towards ourselves, because it can be so easy to beat ourselves up in the aftermath of a binge, or a slip, or relapse. The fact is that our addictions and compulsive behaviours are what Dr Gabor Mate’ calls adaptations to trauma in our childhood. We hold on to our addictive and compulsive behaviours for a reason.

Lezione 10

The Cost Of Our Addictive Behaviours

Watch your thoughts, they become stories; Watch your stories, they become excuses; Watch your excuses, they become relapses; Watch your relapses, they become dis-eases; Watch your dis-eases, they become vicious cycles; Watch your vicious cycles, they become your wheel of life.

Recensioni recenti

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Leslie

November 1, 2024

Great insights, examples and guidance. I could really relate and was able to reframe some things for myself throughout the course. Thank you!

Sue

October 15, 2024

I learned so much about feelings and alcohol. Thank you for this course. ☮️

Jim

October 9, 2024

First course on Insight Timer that I listened straight through with no interruptions. Powerful examples and an even more powerful dialogue regarding addiction and its hold on our lives. Straight forward, clear, and attainable. Will return to this course many times until I am free of the Vicious Cycle. Thank you for this course.

Paulo

September 21, 2024

It was a very practical, affirming, and reality-check based course. Valerie is so calm and lovingly firm. She helps reorient me to my relationship with myself and working through addiction with compassion.

Helen

April 19, 2024

This course was so helpful on my journey to recovery. I would Definitely recommend to anyone struggling with addictions of all kinds. Thank you!

Amy

April 2, 2024

I appreciate that any addictive behavior can be addressed and examined through this course. The soothing voice left me feeling reflective and at peace throughout the course. Highly recommend.

Ana

November 30, 2023

Really helpful for looking at my triggers and realizing the cost of my addiction

Odalys

October 31, 2023

Thank you! Excellent course. Honest and to the point. May the God of your understanding bless you. I hope you do more tracks or courses on addiction. 🙌🏽👼🏽💖🌺

Kelly

October 24, 2023

Very helpful class. It is helping me move away from my addiction.

Fred

August 29, 2023

Thank you! May you have 24 hours of serenity with sobriety!

Thomas

May 5, 2023

This was beyond helping and just over all amazing to work through.

Tatiana

April 3, 2023

Made me really think about my addictive behaviors

Seema

March 17, 2023

Thank you for the good insight - my son is addicted to cannabis and i wanted some pointers to help him

Kevin

February 14, 2023

🙏🏼🧡😊 Thank you so much for taking the time to create this tool that will help so many of us!!

Liz

January 11, 2023

Thus course was very helpful in understanding why we even fall prey to different behaviors. It was very useful in learning how to deflect the desires to resume behaviors.