Today we just finished day 2 of a four day training session for parents at Hazelden. We are learning all about the different classes of drugs and how they interact with the brain. We are also learning how the disease of addiction sucks every family member into it. The family needs to heal as much as the addict.
We are learning that most of the behavior patterns that parents fall into don’t help the addict. They usually just make the parents obsessive and wear the parents out. The big lesson for parents turns out to be… Non attachment to the outcome.
It seems that non attachment to the outcome has to be one of the most important principles that every spiritual guru teaches. I thought that Hazelden explained it rather well. They called it “Letting Go”. They had a whole page of insights about what letting go is and is not.
At the very end, they summed it up with…
Letting go is to fear less and to love more.
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Best places to eat while in my neck of the woods is "The Healthy Makers", organic market in Chisago for snacks. "Tangled up in Blue", in Taylors Falls for upscale, semi healthy eating. Cafe Brenda if you get as far as Mpls, and then there is The Renewal Building, where you can look my up on campus. (: DeLynn aka Lab Munkay
Thanks for the insites, DeLynn
Fear seems to be the thing that most easily keeps us from living fully... something I've considered often of late; funny to see it here, too.
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