According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, 70% of lottery winners or people who receive large windfalls end up broke in a few short years. This generally takes less than five years on average. 30% will declare bankruptcy aka – go broke.
There are many fears newly sober people face. I like to call these the BIG F****’s. In this blog post, I’ll cover sobriety’s five big fears from the perspective of a sober newbie.
To date, this is by far the most intense meditation experience yet. But rather than leaving me drained, I actually felt much lighter. Much lighter, in fact, than I’ve felt in a very long time. I was left not only lighter, but deeply inspired and loved.
Through daily meditation and study, I’ve come to discover that alcohol use disorder (or whatever we choose to call it) is the inevitable outcome of an unhealthy and compulsive desire – an obsession with alcohol. This compulsion to drink all the time is an entrenched habit on autopilot. You continue to seek the reward long after it has vanished. The high is a mirage. You drink just to feel normal.
Then I imagined a black cloud rises up out of it and gathering above it. I inhaled this cloud as deeply as I could and held my breath for a few seconds as I witnessed it being consumed and transformed in the warm light of my heart. When I exhaled the light, I, myself, became lighter. A weight lifted off of me. The more I repeated this process, the lighter and freer I felt.