Detox Your Mind
Are you addicted to your negative thinking?
“Addiction is behavior you continue despite it causing you harm.” ~Tommy Rosen
I recently came across Danielle LaPort’s new-ish endeavor, One Commune. It’s a membership site with an amazing collective of teachers. This is their mission statement: “Our mission is to create a global wellness community around the ideas and practices of the world’s greatest teachers.” You needn’t become a member to benefit from the conversation over there.
I was drawn to the April 30, 2019 podcast with Tommy Rosen titled “Beyond Recovery”. I’ll admit that I was drawn to Tommy’s lovely smile and disarming good looks and that was what made me click on that conversation. I loved listening to Rosen’s philosophy and personal story. His description of addiction is: “Behavior you continue despite it causing you harm.” He describes sugar as the gateway drug. He also calls thought patterns of Negative Thinking, Self Doubt, Procrastination, and Resentment addictions. Mmmhmm. Up until that part of the conversation I was patting myself on the back and all “I don’t have any addictions.”
The big hit for me is the connection Rosen makes between isolation and addiction; “Addiction is a disease of isolation.” Isolation is such a toxic loop to get caught in, and one I am painfully well acquainted with. In my recent experience of maintaining connection through conversation with my fellow coaching trainees has brought a great deal of healing to the parts of me that judge myself and others. I have benefited from so many swapped coaching sessions per week while I’m in training that my personal evolution has taken root deeper and faster than I expected.
That brings me to the idea of detoxing your mind before you are able to enter the work of recovery and evolution. For me detoxing my mind always begins with entering and spending time in nature, that is where I find inner connection. I hike in the redwood forests near my home and I walk on the nearby beaches. This isn’t enough, though. I also need to sustain my effort and make thoughtful choices about what I eat and drink, and most especially what I think and say. As I write this I realize I have come out of isolation more fully than ever before because of coaching. I get coached and coach others on a weekly basis. I am getting to know myself more deeply and maybe more importantly for me, I’m allowing people to know me on a level I have not permitted anyone beyond my very closest circle of friends.
What do you do to detox? How will you prepare for your personal evolution?
