Dallas Bragg describes recovery from meth addiction as staying connected to a "perfected version" of yourself, a future self already sober who can guide your choices. Without this inner connection, he argues, free will can't shape reality. Borrowing strength from that future self lets you make conscious decisions that create lasting sobriety.
So how do you maintain authentic connection? How do you do it? First and foremost, what is the connection like to yourself and to this moment? And what I mean by that is a connection to something greater than yourself. And that something greater than yourself is a perfected version of you, the version of you who is already living meth-free. Not to get too in the metaphysical woo-woo weeds here, but I do believe there's a version of me who has learned all these lessons. Who has overcome the addiction? Who has ended the patterns? Often we have to borrow energy from that perfected self. We have to ask it for assistance, for knowledge, for epiphanies, downloads. That is my higher power. I'm a human with free will, and that free will makes me the god of my life. And I will be unable to exert free will effectively if I am. Disconnected from myself. That free will helps me create the reality I want by the way I choose to use my free will to respond to my life.
