this is real meditation for real like oh ho this is just a little pep talk before you actually
attempt the sample exercises of a CD please listen to this first track all the way through you might
also want to listen to it a few more times because the ideas here will be very helpful
especially with anyone who's first be getting this kind of meditation after this there are two brief
samplers of meditation for alcoholics the first one is an introduction and an exercise that runs
about 20 minutes the second one goes a little deeper but it's just as simple either of these
are going to be enough for you to get started with a very effective life-changing meditation
practice it'll be fully compatible with whatever your non-religious recovery practices are it will
bring a recovery in your spirituality to a place that you may have only have dreamed possible and
it will do it right now just one morning though very important this is no ordinary meditation
this is an exercise that if used earnestly will save your life if you're an alcoholic
who is still drinking or recovered alcoholic or a recovering alcoholic it won't matter whatever
you call yourself whatever you think you are this will still work that's quite a claim I know there
is no philosophy that you're being fooled into adopting there's no cult behind what you're about
to experience you don't need any gurus to follow you won't even need this recording once you begin
on your own there's no religion to study there's no Dogma there's no doctrine there's nothing to
memorize it to learn there is a learning but not the kind of learning you're used to with studying
and reading and trying to follow rote directions slogans mottos little quipping quotes of others
little out-of-context clippings here and there this is a learning that is a natural use of what
already exists inside of you now this is the kind of learning sort of like when we learn to ride a
bicycle and all I do is take the role of your dad or a loving uncle or a big brother running
alongside you holding the back of the seat of your bicycle and encourage you a little bit while you
learn to use your already built-in to balance all by yourself just very gently I just got you along
for the first few feet until you can finally go off on your own using gravity and your natural
ability to react to it so you don't fall you just move forward on your own gliding so you
already know how to do this but you forgot I'm just here to remind you that's all this is you
do not need me you do not need anyone if you're real alcoholic reliance upon people has been a
problem but you will not become reliant on this CD or this recording or on me or anything when
you practice this meditation properly that is and this recording will show you just how that
is done then your reliance will right now begin to shift without you even doing anything and it
will begin to shift over to what you instinctively and naturally see is truth a truth that's already
inside of you you'll have access to that what you are being exposed to right now in this recording
is so powerful that it is not even necessary for you to believe anything that you hear in
this meditation sampler you can believe it or disbelieve it if you want the exercise will if
you do it it will work anyway that's because no human creates the truth the truth about
anything just is it's just truth anything you learn will come to you passively without you
trying to absorb it when it comes time for you to know something you'll just know it's called
understanding during the exercise I talked to you but it's only a temporary and gentle guiding just
while you're experiencing this exercise but then you'll be able to carry a meditative experience
and not the words as you go through your life each moment of the day when stress smacks and
anxiety faces you down you'll at least be able to truly pause and truly wait for intuition and make
decisions without being controlled by other people without being influenced by outward sources the
ability to act on your inner intuitive knowing and to trust that knowing which means not to be
confused by any dark nature is about to become an option that you may have been having trouble with
through my voice for now you get used to a new of existing during this exercise that can be carried
through your life in all of your affairs this is simply to help you because you won't be used
to it at first it can be a little startling in the beginning you may feel like something
inside you doesn't want to go through with it that's strange unwillingness to meditate is a
fear and it will get less and less very quickly as it is overwhelmed by your growing earnestness
and strengthening of faith this is not a toy this is not some storefront relaxation exercise or a
religious trick to give you some imagine temporary hypnotic relief from your stresses so you can be
indoctrinated into some religious practice this is a real meditation as practice for thousands
of years it will dovetail very nicely and fit hand in hand with your judeo-christian principles with
your twelve steps just beautifully they will come alive now like never before and it won't
be through anything that I'm telling you will be through your own realizations do not tell anyone
about this right now they will not approve they will have a better way that they will want you
to try instead they may try to talk you out of this exercise in favor of a more hypnotic means
of finding happiness the simplicity of this meditation will be too threatening for them it
may even feel a little threatening to you so you can imagine how it might be for someone who does
not understand but is not you that's threatened something inside you is threatened something
inside them is threatened and will do anything to convince you to not proceed just watch that
just watch it and don't do anything else about it there are no outcomes to accomplish here this is
an ego deflating proposition not an ego inflating one and so accomplishment special effects special
feelings of well-being a relaxation these are not goals there's something inside everyone that
wants to make something happen so we can take credit for it even for your own spirituality it
needs to be puffed up but that is exactly how it denies you of ever finding true spirituality of a
true connection with your Creator do not analyze why this works just see that it does work don't
compare this to other methods you might think you have finding benefit from now you aren't
they haven't worked well in a few you might as well admit it if you had an effective meditation
it's not likely that you would be listening to this right now your curiosity would have not
have been piqued because you would have no need you're still afraid of fear and doubts
what seems like a negative shadow inside your heart that is preventing you from wholeness a
wholeness a Jew also sense is available it is available you are right on the threshold of
having it come in you just have to see that you cannot struggle to have it that struggle is the
trap has prevented you from ever having it you cannot install your own happiness and this is
what you're about to say this just might be what you have been searching for not only in recovery
but for your whole life now if you are still drinking do not try to stop drinking now I'm
not telling you to drink I'm just telling you to stop trying to not drink you won't be able
to do it not just yet it may take a few days the drink problem is soon going to be removed from
you you won't have to try to stop anymore trying and the spirit of trying is what has gotten you
with the trouble in the first place it's why you're an alcoholic it goes back to the cause
of your downfall in the first place if you've done a genuine 12-step practice then you know
what that means the last thing we can expect is that trying that Eagle spirit to do is going to
help you and going to save you it won't there is an expression among people who suffer from
attention deficit order that says the harder I try the worse it gets how cruelly true that is for the
alcoholic who is doing all that he can to stop his destructive drinking and yet he still falls
into the insane obsession to drink again it's like a cruel hoax so give up effort the drink
problem is not going to be around much longer now in fact you might have already have taken your
last drink it also won't matter if you belong to a 12-step fellowships or not you might be
an ardent practitioner of the 12-step designed for living or a middle-of-the-road solutionist
it'll still work in fact if you practice recovery principles spiritual principles this meditation
will allow you to begin practicing them in all of your affairs whereas previously the best of
your own abilities have fallen short if you have already stopped drinking perhaps a long time
ago and you're approaching this from the same place as the a cough alcoholic except your dry
alcohol-free is fine but restlessness irritability and discontentment has not reserved for drinking
alcoholics this meditation will work for you too it will put to rest the conflicts you have
experienced with regard to not having a meditation at all or to follow other meditations that really
are meditations but a hypnotic placebos it may help you perform some cool tricks with
your body in your mind maybe even offer you feelings of relaxation and help you imagine
happiness while your spirit has been left hanging in the wind that's over now happiness joy bliss
as an objective is of the same pleasure seeking spirit that controls the out the back ahall ik
except of the guise of spirituality there is a huge difference between feelings of well-being
because you've memorized yourself that way and the genuine experience of security that we get
after we have truly gotten well it's been a cruel hoax to some of us who might otherwise find truth
and become truly maximized our usefulness to our fellows and to our God so if you're ready now for
a shift to shift away from your dependencies upon people gurus and religions and movements
tendencies on doctors and counselors and sponsors and fellowships and instead begin to relate in a
healthy manner to some of these things instead of feeling controlled by them and if you're
ready to shift off of your self-reliance to and please proceed you're about to become maximized
you