Dallas Bragg guides a meditation that helps people separate addiction from their identity by locating addictive patterns in the body and personifying them as an external entity. This externalizing technique lets people stop calling themselves addicts and interrupt the subconscious loops that drive the behavior.
Here's a tool I use with my clients to begin the process, process of abstinence from Tina. I lead them through a guided meditation that helps them locate where the addictive patterns are housed within their body, and then we pull those out and personify what I call the entity of addiction. Once it is personified, it is no longer a part of you. It's not— it's no longer your identity. You can stop saying my addiction or I'm an addict. At that point, you are better positioned to observe the nature of your individual patterns and cycles. That information is crucial to interrupting the subconscious so you can take control of your life. If you're interested in a copy of this meditation, comment me below and I'll send you the link.
