Opposites

 The opposite of the spiritual life is the self-centered life.  How do we get out of the self and into the spiritual?  First, identify the problem.  You do something that feeds self-centeredness, thinking it will make you happy.  Drinking too much as a solution to happiness, is insanity.  You identify the problem and the behavior.  If you are addicted, sanity is not natural to you.  So you do what you need to do to maintain sanity.  Lots of steps here.  But once you reach a spiritual practice on a daily basis, like meditation/spiritual reading, you then begin to live out the spiritual life.  For the addict this would be their step twelve.  For all of us it would include self-less action for the benefit of others, especially persons who were where you once were.