When in early recovery and treatment many of us aren't present. Instead, we're shaking with fear about a future that only exists in our heads. One that may never come to exist.
Many of our clients talk about their "anxiety."
Maybe they wonder if they'll stay clean. Or if they'll mend a broken relationship. If they'll find work. It's a fantasy future built on a foundation of shaky ideas.
But when, as the quote above suggests, we come into the present we have something to work with. Something tangible.
And dreams of the future look nothing like anxiety.
These dreams have positive color, substance, and form. They contain ideas with substance. We feel our success. We taste it, smell it, touch it. We savor everything about the realization of what we once only imagined.
When dreams have that much life to them they soon become reality.
