This Friday 5th April @ 7.00pm
All are welcome.
Session Five: Drug Related Beliefs/Neural Plasticity/Cause & Effect (Karma)/The Nine Consciousness’s.
Please study session five of the handbook before attending
Newcomers please be aware we chant 15 minutes Shodai before each meeting.
Handbook available on Amazon:
“Climbing The Mountain”
The Complete Handbook of Buddhist Recovery.
Sun Lotus Recovery is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Sun Lotus Group Meeting
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Meeting ID: 831 8935 7632
In this session we begin to examine the mental aspects of addiction, looking at our addictive thinking and thought processes and the neural pathways that thinking and thoughts create, also how neural plasticity functions and how by utilising this function we can begin to manage our disorder.
We introduce the participant to the tool of “Self Directed Neural Plasticity” which develops the new neural substrates/pathways needed for their recovery, through gaining more self awareness and changing perceptions of The Self, which gives rise to new insights and thinking patterns and to the formation of the brand new neural pathways needed to start managing their addiction disorder for the first time.
It also covers the neurological processes that occur when meditating and how our Buddhist Practice can rewire and develop certain brain regions, allowing us to control our impulses and urges to use.
We will also look in depth at the fundamental Buddhist concept/law of Karma and how this law allows us to take ownership of our experiences that have occurred due to our addiction.
This empowers us to move from a mindset of victim hood, where we have become entrenched and stuck by giving away our power, disempowering ourselves, blaming others or the environment for our predicament, to that of a survivor, where we have ownership over our own experience, gaining agency and self reliance, which brings about our self empowerment, allowing the participant to move on and grow.
This is achieved by taking full responsibility for our actions and their consequences, enabling us to move forward with our life in recovery, no longer stuck in our endless suffering.
It also shows the similarities of CBT and the Buddhist Law of karma and that by changing our karma (thoughts, speech & actions) especially our thinking, we can enable and unleash positive behavioural change.
We will also explore the nature and depths of our conscious and unconscious mind and begin to understand that consciousness also has a universal dimension and how Mind also transcends the confines of our physical body, which enables us to change our self perception and deepen our understanding of our relationship to others through this new self awareness.
Also in this session we will explore how by tapping into this deepest level of our being, through our Buddhist Practice, we can experience a fundamental change in our lives, experiencing new liberating thoughts and emotions.