Healing Pain

 Addictive substances or activities only postpone the pain.  Nothing is healed.  Think of exercise or work that is “too much.”  The too much is because you are trying not to face some pain in your life, but the over doing it only postpones that confrontation with inner pain, and causes more pain in the activity you over do.  I think of running.  If I run too much I cause too much pain in my body, and am probably doing all this over exercise to avoid something else.  So I try to run in moderation that has some stress to it, but this stress is a “healing pain.”  Recovery from addiction is a healing pain.  Try doing a step four and five.  It looks like too much, but the relief is wonderfully healing, or so I have been told.