Dallas Bragg argues that sobriety comes from setting a clear intention and trusting the universe to deliver it. Once you decide to stop using, your sober life already exists somewhere in the universe. Your job is to keep faith when you face relapse, job loss, or pain, and see setbacks as steps toward a reality that's already made.
Hey, what if I told you you're trying too hard to get sober? Here's the way the universe works, whether you're in sobriety or you're not. When you create a thought and you decide and commit, I'm going to stop using, I'm going to be sober, it happens. It already happens. You created the thought and the universe responds by making it happen, period. Your job at that point is to trust the process. What I mean is, when things come along— struggles, Relapse, hard times, rebuilding your life, the agony of facing your pain. When you view all of that as one step closer to the reality you've already created instead of one stumbling block that keeps you from it, the whole game changes. You have to trust and believe that the reality you've already created, your sober life, has already happened. Now it's up to you to have faith in that miracle. Now when you relapse, Or something bad happens, you lose your job, whatever it is, you have to live temporarily in sober living.
