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Tags: health, wellness, drug abuse, addiction
 For most people having to suffer from an addiction, living can become burdensome. An addiction or a compulsion is often binding. It limits, it restricts and it is likely to be a constant source of struggle. When you are addicted, your focus becomes constrained. As you are belligerently preoccupied with battle against the binding bane of your existence, you become oblivious.
And often it is those which are the worthwhile aspects of living which you so unmindfully neglect. People who are bound by an addiction may in fact cease to live. In a sense that they become bedungeoned in a gripping darkness. Life ought to be lived as journey. Where as you move along, you see different sights of experience and learning.
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Life is to be lived with gratitude as it has much to offer. And those are opportunities to make and mold the total person. But when a person is suffering from addiction, there is often no room for gratitude. Addiction and gratitude are often contradictory. When you are enmeshed in an addiction, you evade feelings which cause pain.
You have shunned responsibility for yourself and are more apt to blame outward circumstances. As you have relinquished your autonomy towards yourself, you are under the mercy of factors beyond you. What is gratitude on the other hand? Gratitude is not having to feel shame. Happiness is something you choose to and can take responsibility of.
Along with this is the acceptance of your choices and whatever consequences they may bring. Rather than becoming dependent or rendering yourself helpless, you make the resolve to be proactive and search for answers within yourself. Happiness is a matter of perception as it has often been said. One of the means for a person to experience happiness is to choose to be grateful whatever the circumstance.
And how is it be able to experience gratitude? A person as a human being need to feel the human touch or connection, thus to relate with others is crucial. It is through human interaction that a person learns to feel a sense of himself. It is through human dealings that a person realizes his importance.
Giving and taking takes place until a bond develops. And when a bond develops, the first step for healing transpires. When a person chooses to help, the rewards are actually mutual. Not only do they render assistance to somebody in need, but in himself he gains something as well. More than anything material, it is the sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, intangible but worthy.
A person who himself has been freed from addiction can embark on a journey of sharing his freedom. That is by helping those in the shackles of addiction to break free. This is how it goes for the community where support is of the element. And this mutual support is the lifeblood which sustains each and everyone.
Addiction and gratitude may be thought of as opposing thoughts. But even in the midst of an addiction, a person can choose to see the glimmer of gratitude. And from then, they move and they strive until the glimmer becomes a spark. With his own initiative and the support of others, the darkness of addiction can be diminished.
And with the light comes seeing, with seeing knowing until there is freedom.
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About the author
The author of this article Rose Windale is a Health and Wellness Coach who has been successful with several natural health programs for many years. Rose recently published a step-by-step guide on how to lose weight the EASY way and become totally healthy and happy. More info on her life-changing eating habits plan HERE.
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