A Practice Working With The Dis-ease Of Addiction

In my experience, one of the most powerful and long-term solutions to working with addictions is a 12-step programme.

One of the key concepts in the 12-steps is to develop a connection with a higher power. With the iRest practices they can help you to connect with this as a felt experience, developing a connection to an undamaged stillness and peace, an unchanging awareness within the watcher, which some might understand as a higher power.

Meditation can take you deeper into understanding your addictions if you are in a 12-step programme; it can offer a natural antidote to the difficult feelings and dis-ease you may feel and have used on. Here, you can do it naturally to soothe and be with the restlessness to empower yourself. Many people who practice iRest have faced dire situations in their lives. These practices have helped them feel safe and find a new, often unimaginable, freedom and peace connecting with an undamaged part of themselves regardless of their situations or past.