Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

by Russell Brand

When I say the Step 7 prayer I call to mind what I know of evolutionary theory, the unknowable beauty of the universe’s inception, the slow dawning of our planet, the birth of chemistry and biology, the mysterious forces that either drive, facilitate or allow this process, the emergence of cellular life, its crescendo over millions of years to self-conscious life – life that is capable of contemplating its own creation. I consider this when I say ‘My Creator’. I also consider the part of my own being that has sat in witness to the events of my life so far. The part of me that has observed the chaos and yearning somehow unimpaired, ‘My Creator’. The rest of the prayer, even if prayer to you is no more than ‘having a word’ with yourself, is a fine appeal to offer.

‘We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.’

Through this program you can contact the part of you that

already knows what you have to do. Create the stillness for the aspect of your consciousness that knows what it has to do to be heard. We live on a grid, we have a pattern, it runs on primal mechanics. It is hard to pause and reach within to the quiet wisdom, your individual part of the divine that wants to guide you.

Meditation is a way of cultivating the environment in which I spend all my time.