Learn the basics of addiction and how you can help yourself naturally. This video is not a substitute for healthcare professional advice. please view full disclaimer at www.lifeshareuniversity.com

1. Natural Ways to Recover
From Addiction
Lifeshare University of Healing
Presents

2. What is Addiction?
Addiction is the fact
or condition of being
addicted to a
particular substance,
thing, or activity.

3. Types of Addiction
Drugs and Alcohol addiction is a chronic, often
relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive
drug and alcohol seeking and use, despite
harmful consequences to the drug addict or
alcoholic and those around them. Drug addiction
and alcohol addiciton is a brain disease because
the abuse of drugs and alcohol leads to changes
in the structure and function of the brain.
Soft Addictions are those seemingly harmless habits
like over-shopping, overeating, watching too
much TV, endlessly surfing the internet,
procrastinating—that actually keep us from the life
we want.
They cost us money, rob us of time, numb us from
our feelings, mute our consciousness, and drain
our energy.

4. Who is Susceptable to Addiction?
From video games and food
to drugs and alcohol,
we all have addictions in life,
some more severe than
others-- and we are all susceptible
to soft addictions
regardless of age, gender,
race or color.

5. What Need is your addiction
filling?
All behaviors are motivated by a desire
to increase comfort or decrease pain.
Addictions are driven by the belief that
the behavior
can fulfill needs that other choices can
not fill.
Ask yourself these questions:

Can I identify the need that my habit is
attempting to fulfill?

Do I believe I can substitute a
nourishing habit for a toxic one?

Do I believe I will need to practive total
abstinence from my harmful

habit or can I manage my habit to
reduce the harm it is causing?

6. Is addiction a disease or a
choice?
There are many questions to whether addiction is
an illness that can be treated as a chronic medical
condition or a conditioned behavior that can be
changed through intention and will.
Ask these questions:
Do I believe I have a disease over which
I have no control or do I believe I have some
control over my habit?
Am I experiencing negative consequences
because of my choices, or do I think I am
managing well enough?
Am I prepared to change my thinking,
behaviors, and relationships if that will
enable me to free myself from this habit?
AM I repeating the same behaviors but expecting a
different outcome?
What are the patterns in my life that I will continue if I
do not consciously change them?

7. Ready to change?
Let's Take action!
YES YOU DO DESERVE TO
EXPERIENCE JOY! ARE
YOU READY TO BEGIN
CHANGING YOU LIFE
TODAY?
Make a commitment to yourself right
now... that you are going to transform your
life and stop repeating the old patterns of
destruction, learn the lessons and move
forward onto new positive patterns of
celebration!

8. Intention
Intention defined in medical terms is “the Healing Process of a wound”
When it comes to addiction, there is something buried or subconsciously hidden within
ourselves that we are attempting to cover up or “heal”.
Most of the time this is an unpleasant emotion or feeling from a past experience that we do
not want to face;so we begin to cover that emotion or feeling with something that makes a
pleasant experience, even if it means harming ourselves in the long run.

9. Attachment
After time, our mind and bodies become dependent or attached to the habit of choice.
Our physciological and psychological patterns deepen the behavior and our mind and
bodies become dependent or attached to the habit or pattern of choice then creating an
addiction.
Addictions not only affect the addict, but affect peopl;e around them including friends,
family and children.

10. Craving
Cravings become more and more
intense for the substance or behavior
and we begin to feel unable to control it
and it begins to interrupt our lives in a
negative way.
Not only can drugs and alchohol disrput
our life and everyones around us.. but
those soft addictions that we feel are
harmless also take away time from more
positive things and also drain our energy
leaving us feeling worse than we did
before we did it.

11. Addiction
After the cravings become so strong and we feel we are powerless and need
them to survive or get through the day, it then becomes an addiction. We can
stop them before they get this far.. we can stop them at intention if we look
deep within and are truthful with ourselves from the start. We need to
express our emotions as they come and be fearless about confronting our
feelings. Even if we are afraid... Joyce Meyer always said “DO IT AFRAID”

12. DO IT AFRAID!
When we ask for support from the Universe , support
groups or from other types of support, We Do it
Afraid.
We can receive help to prepare the way for our lives
and help us through the addiction recovery process.
We can also look to nature for help.
There are many natural methods and techniques that
can help us before the addiction starts.
Lets move forward and go over some of those
natural ways that you can help yourself.

13. Find Quiet Time
Allow yourself quiet time to meditate.
Meditation is healing is so many ways,
mind body and spirit.
Meditation helps us connect to the
universe as
well as find the truth within ourselves.
You can also set up a smalle meditation
area that you can go to such as a spiritual
altar or going out into nature and walking
by a lake or in a park.
Once you find your quiet space.. you will
not know
how you lived without it before.

14. Acceptance
Stop trying to control things and allow the universe
to lead you.
Follow your intution which can be found during
meditation time. Accept others as they are.. for we
all are here to accomplish different things and are
learning at different divine times.
Worry about your own life and stop worrying about
everyone elses life.
When you do this you create positive energy within
your own life, learn more about yourself and
eliminate gossip which creates negative and
draining energy.

15. Faith and Hope
Our lives can be stressful and
confusing at times. Relationships,
finances, careeer and material
possesions can cause us to feel
unstable in the world.
We need to develop the skill of having
faith or confidence in positive things.
Make a list of five positive things that
don't change – like a mother's love for
her only child. Create a positive
affirmation and read these daily.

16. Love Yourself - Stay Positive
Instead of negative self-criticism, learn to
evaluate objectively your strengths and
weaknesses.
Make a list of three things you do well, three
that you could be better at, and three that
definitely need improvement. Take into account
feedback from parents, spouses, teachers, and
employers over the course of your life.
Where were they correct?
Learn to ask yourself the question,
"How am I doing in this moment?"
Be gentle with yourself.
Don't beat yourself up..
We never stop learning in life.

17. Choose Friends Wisely
All great people have a sense of self-honesty.
In order to achieve it, we need to take the counsel of
others.
Find at least one, but no more than five people in your
life whose advice you are willing to follow.
Find support groups where people are familiar with
what you are going through.
I will give you a website to find support groups in your
area at the end of this presentation.
Share with these people or groups your strengths and
weaknesses.
Find a Life Buddy that can hold you accountable for
your actions.

18. Practice Humility
What are we really willing to do to move past our limitations? Make a
list of everything you've ever wanted to achieve in life.
Add to it all of the things people you admire have accomplished.
Looking at our self-examination list, with input from our management
team, evaluate how your strengths and weaknesses contribute to or
hold you back from these types of achievements.
Learning the truth about ourselves is hard work. Staying aware of our
truth in light of the constant changes in our lives takes humility and
courage.
Practice humility by admitting that you are not alone, need help along
the path and are willing to follow advice.
In your refuge practice, ask the universe for support to stay in this
space of awareness and self-knowledge.

19. Let Go of the Past
We carry the burden of deep resentment on non-verbal levels
deep in the core of our beings.
Our bodies hold the pain, causing tension, stress, fatigue, and
disease. Many times this is what we are trying to cover up with
the addictions that we seek out.
Keep a gratitude journal and write down every day what you
are grateful for in your life.
Forgive yourself and others for the pain that has been caused.
Allow yourself to heal for the true meaning of forgiveness is
letting go of the hope that the past could be any different.
When we close old doors we make room for others to open
and new positive things come into our lives.

20. Give Back
Take a volunteer position, write letters to
prisoners, sponsor an animal shelter, join
Volunteers of America.
Make it a regular part of your week. When we help
others, we forget about our own problems and it is
so rewarding to put a smile on someone elses
face and bring joy into their lives!
Knowing you can help another person builds
confidence and also helps you learn more about
yourself.

21. Admit Your Mistakes
When we admit we are wrong and see
what is hindering us, we are able to learn
the lesson and change how we handle it.
We only can fix something in our lives if
we are aware of the problem.
It is like getting a flat tire... we wont fix
the tire until it goes flat... but if we knew
there was a slow leak.. we could fix it
before the entire tire is flat and we get
stuck on the side of the road.
Being aware of what is happening in our
lives brings enlightenment into it.

22. Find Your Spirituality
Yaga, Meditations, reading spiritual books, going to
workshops, listeinging to teachings, praying or even going on
a weekend retreat can increase our spirituality.
Any activities that we do that leads to connecting with and
finding our true self is enhancing our spirituality.
The Dalai Lama says that if we can't be kind to others when
the stuff hits the fan (I paraphrase) then our spiritual practice
is of little value.
We need to practice unconditional love every day with those
we're closest to. Working with some of the meditations
above, imagine some of these people in our lives and
visualize sending them infinite compassion and love in the
form of your favorite colored light.
Develop that feeling of compassion in meditation, then follow
it up with actions based on benefiting others. Keep giving. No
matter what.

23. Summing It All Up
All in all, when we admit we have a problem, find
the underlying truth to the addiction, and face our
fears while finding healthy and positive ways to
deal with the emotions, we can truly stop our
addictions before they start.
We need to become aware of what is surrounding
us and what we are suprrounding ourselves with.
Awareness brings Enlightenment and
Enlightement helps us reach our highest goals no
matter how high the mountain, becoming aware
helps us climb without losing our breaths.

24. SUPPORT IN YOUR AREA
SUPPORT GROUPS
http://adai.uw.edu/hotlines.htm
To find support in your area visit the link above
Thank you!