A necessary step in recovery

Whether it is physiological or psychological, it’s almost inevitable that one of those many complex desires that we form is going to hook us into a com-pulsive cycle in which we lose our freedom and it takes us over. How does meditation come into this? At the right time in one’s journey, in one’s life, if you have the grace of hearing about it, meditation becomes a way of dealing with this condition – in the 12-Step Program, in the 11th Step: ‘by raising our conscious contact with God through prayer and meditation.’ It isn’t then that meditation is some magic pill that cures addiction, but it is a necessary step in recovery. And what is recovery? Healing. It’s recovering the wholeness that we have tragically but necessarily lost.

Grace at Work by Laurence Freeman OSB