Many recovery paths teach spirituality to help recover. Nick talks about how this helped him during his journey and some of the pitfalls he fell into along the way. Hopefully, this video will help you in your recovery journey!
Nick from Cadre talks about the spiritual side of life. He says when he's able to connect to the heart, then he can connect with people. What is spirituality? Or what is God? Or who am I? It's a beautiful thing.
Hey, Nick from Cadre here tonight. How are you? You know, wanted to talk a little bit about the spiritual side to life. And, you know, before I came into recovery for, you know, bipolar and alcohol addiction and smoke way too much weed all the time before I kind of came into that said, I think I was always seeking and that we're always on that spiritual journey, but I really only became attuned with trying to live a spiritual life kind of after starting that recovery process and getting involved in twelve step program.
And that's what kind of opened up, you know, Pandora's box of spirituality. But I was seeking before that in different ways in religion and art. And, you know, I think there's a spiritual aspect to sports, but it's like the longer that I'm on this healing recovery path, you know, the more important the spiritual side of life is. And it's in twelve step literature, they say that the spiritual life is. Is not a theory. We have to live it. And, you know, I could find myself without knowing it, living the spiritual life as a theory, you know, intellectualizing everything.
But once again, it comes back to that kind of moving from the mind, you know, to the heart. And that's where, you know, I think my spirituality has been originated from lately is when I'm able to connect to the heart, then I'm able to connect with people and with situations in an authentic way and in a way that enriches my life. And I've kind of been in the series of, like, the mind, you know, and I said, since I was. I wrote a poem when I was about 20. The thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop.
And so I do, like, the mind's an unbelievable thing. It could do so much. And I maybe have been kind of bashing the mind lately. And my thoughts, I'm so tuned into trying to connect to the heart because the mind to me, does just. It plays tricks on you, and it tells me you're not good enough. It says, worry about this in that scenario. So when I'm doing best with the spiritual side of life, it's when I'm not overthinking it and where I'm really open to learning and not defining. One of my favorite sayings of all times from the great german poet Rayner, Marie Rilke.
And he said, live the question and you will grow into the answer. And I think that's been one of the most important questions. And I guess, you know, that you're one of the most important kind of things for me. And so I guess the question would be, what is spirituality? Or what is God? Or who am I? You know? And if I don't get too obsessed with the answers. But let that unfold. It's a beautiful thing. So just a couple thoughts tonight. Have a good one. Bye.
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