Your Addiction Never Existed in the Present Moment | Ep. 68

Your addiction never lived in the present moment. It only lived in regret about yesterday and fear about tomorrow. In this episode, Jason Rigby and Duane Yardman-Frank reveal why present moment awareness is the most powerful — and most overlooked — tool in addiction recovery.

This isn't spiritual fluff. This is neuroscience, biblical wisdom, and lived experience combined into a practical roadmap you can use today.

You'll learn why cravings only exist as thoughts about the future and how to kill them in 90 seconds. You'll discover how present moment awareness reactivates your prefrontal cortex — the exact part of your brain addiction hijacks. You'll understand why rumination and anxiety literally shrink your hippocampus and how mindfulness reverses the damage. You'll walk away with 5 real mantras to use throughout your day, the name it, feel it, breathe with it, return method for surviving cravings, and the profound connection between the I AM statement in Exodus 3:14 and your recovery right now.

Duane shares the moment at a pool in Taos, six months sober, when he fell to his knees and realized he hadn't thought about alcohol in two weeks. That moment of neutrality is available to you. This episode shows you how to get there.

Topics covered include present moment awareness, addiction and the brain, neuroplasticity and recovery, cravings and the amygdala, radical acceptance, Eckhart Tolle and sobriety, Christian recovery, the I AM consciousness, the good wolf bad wolf framework, mantras for sobriety, breathwork and recovery, and how to stop a relapse before it starts.

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