Redemption from Addiction: The Eleven Powers and the Eleven Arts

by Egan, Gerard

• ISBN13: 9781467834438
• ISBN10: 1467834432
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-24
• Publisher: Author Solutions

Summary

There are awesome and powerful creative forces that can be fully tapped; that will absolutely unleash our dreams and hopes transforming them into a desired reality; or these very same forces will send us into the deepest darkest Hell we have ever known! If a person fails to understand that they have a huge responsibility to take full possession and control of this great creative power, then that failure to take this responsibility will always lead to these forces taking control of the person in an undesirable, destructive and potentially deadly manner. In other words opportunities and temptations to use drugs or alcohol will present themselves as a direct result of failing to take control of these forces or misusing their power! All addictions are a manifestation caused by the poor or improper use of these forces and powers! The very Powers that govern the ability for anyone to accomplish anything in their lives for their good; are the very same powers that can and will undermine and destroy those efforts! This book will give you the essential Eleven Powers and Eleven Arts that will enable you to change your life. The use of these Powers and Arts will enable you to take full control of not only your addiction, but provide endless opportunities to create and design an entire new Destiny! Addicts and alcoholics have inadvertently mastered the principles of success and use those very same concepts to assure their own failure and destruction! By forcing yourself to do what you don't want to do enables you to gain hold of and grasp these powerful forces and turn them in the direction of success instead of failure! Teach yourself and learn to direct the awesome creative forces within you and learn to turn your "Possibilities into Probabilities!"

Excerpts

This should be of significant importance to the addict or alcoholic, who must come to the realization that they have a tendency to frequently, if not constantly, obsess on the need or hope that they can safely use alcohol or drugs, despite all the previous facts that would indicate the contrary.
"Since the "Law of Attraction" does not differentiate between good desires or bad desires, and just works mechanically to manifest what is desired or dreamed; the addict or alcoholic needs to be aware how this law is a driving force behind their repeated failures to recover, and therefore they must take control of this powerful force."
This is explained in the chapter that describes the " The Power of Positive Pressure through the "Art of Controlling Click" that shows a step by step method to create strong desires, when none were previously present.
"It is a well known and accepted fact that "willingness" is not a natural state or drive in alcoholics, but defiance and rebelliousness is..."
Therefore it just makes more sense to use what comes natural, than to try to create an unnatural desire or attitude. By utilizing the addict's natural tendency for rebelliousness and defiance, we can flip it around, and direct the negative energy in a very positive manner back towards the addict or alcoholic. This book will teach and guide people to challenge themselves and to challenge their own impulsive tendencies. They will learn the "Power of Resisting Resistance" through the "Art of Self Defiance."
"It is great fun to challenge yourself and to defy the odds-what do you have to lose?"
"After all what is easier to do—change a personality or act naturally?"
There are many ideas, suggestions and recommendations within these pages describing methods to accomplish this.
There is one more concept we need to understand, if we are going to learn to manage or control the emotional impulses that have been directing our bad decisions, and dictating our wrong actions. We need to be very aware that what we focus on, verbally and non-verbally, and especially what we say to ourselves, and the way we move our body all contribute and control what we emotionally experience.
"What we emotionally experience is perceived to be our reality."
Since we can change our emotions though the guaranteed techniques described throughout this book, then we can absolutely set ourselves free from whatever limiting beliefs we have, or ever have had, regarding our ability to not only achieve sobriety, but a lifestyle only previously dreamed about.
The "Power of Imagination" unleashed through the "Art of Visualization," will give you the ability to clearly set yourself free to create, and design your life in any manner that you have ever dreamed.
Another technique discussed in this book will be the use of "Spin," and that is when entire meanings and experiences are transformed just by choosing different words, to describe or express a view or a situation. The chapter on "Eganisms" will absolutely have your head "Spinning" in the right directions!
Whenever anything happens to us we are always trying to make sense of it. We then assign a meaning to that event, and anytime we assign a meaning to an event we automatically create an accompanying emotion.
The assigned meaning occurs through a process in which words we say to ourselves or words others have said to us create that emotion which is experienced. Many times that emotion is actually unnecessary and unwanted.
By using the "Power of Spin through the "Art of the Second Thought" will enable the person to make rapid changes to free themselves of this unwanted "emotional baggage!" Some people believe that they are powerless to change their feelings associated to a past trauma and need to realize that the trauma was not the problem but the meaning they assigned to it!
"Even though a past event can never be changed, the meaning can always be easily changed, by utilizing the "Art of the Second Thought" through engaging the "Power of Spin and that will automatically change the unwanted and unnecessary "emotional attachment."
You will absolutely learn that by taking control of the way you breath, or the way you move your body, and what you choose to focus on, all will absolutely work to change your past, present and future. By using the "Power of Breath" through the "Art of Breath Management" you will gain the ability to almost instantly change any unpleasant feelings, emotions, sensation or moods!
"Your past can never be the problem; simply due to the ABSOLUTE fact that it no longer exists!"
The past is not stored away in some file cabinet, where you frequently or infrequently open the draw to study and review it. No the past is the past, and the fact that it is the past, means you have absolutely survived it. It is the residual memories of the past that haunt you not the events of the past.
"Past events can never be changed, but the impact they have had upon you can absolutely be changed, by changing the meaning we assigned to it."
If and when we choose to open that file cabinet draw and we smell or feel something disturbing, it can be changed immediately by simply changing the way we breathe, or the way we move our body and the facial expressions or other gestures we make. All these techniques will be described through out this book.
Words are power, and whether they are used willingly or with or without desire, this book will empower anyone with information and understanding that when specific words are simply acknowledged, and implemented they will enable a person to be free of any behavior they have not been willing to change or had no desire to change.
The "Power of Transformational Communication" through the "Art of Word Selection" will give you the insight and ability to manage the emotional impact of almost anything that happens!
"Once again I want to reiterate....