Weekly Meditation
Betty Ford Center considers spirituality
vital for recovery. In the 12 Step program, each person's
spirituality is treated with dignity and respect. We invite
each person to consider spirituality as an important part
of a healthy, hopeful and vibrant recovery.
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Spirituality is not Religion
Sometimes the emphasis on spirituality in the 12 Step program
is confused with religion. The Spiritual Care staff emphasizes
each person's personal experience, inviting him or her to
share how she or he found recovery, including special circumstances
and people who were part of the "spiritual awakening." Particular
religions, while honored, are separate from the treatment experience, and no
specific religion is promoted.
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Surrender
The first characteristic of a sober way of life is our willingness to change.
We need to break deeply ingrained patterns in our previous lifestyle if we are
to become healthy and happy human beings. The movement away from fear is a movement
of trust. If fear isolated us, it is trust which will bring us back into the
human community, back to reality, and back, perhaps, to a relationship with a
power greater than ourselves that we may wish to call God.
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Spiritual Assessment
A Spiritual Care counselor meets with each person to assess his or her spirituality
and to discover spiritual concerns that need to be addressed during treatment
and in recovery. Areas that are explored include the patient's personal understanding
of the meaning and purpose of life, aspects of hope and hopelessness, self-esteem,
and affirmations. The negative forces of shame and guilt that impede recovery
are also addressed.
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Steps 2 & 3 Group
This group provides patients with tools to identify a Higher Power that can support
sobriety and give hope.
Willingness, honesty
and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. They
are indispensable.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is the
proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting
ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
H.S. Big Book of Alcoholics
Anonymous, p. 570
Our experience at the Betty Ford Center
is that no patient will have difficulty with the spiritual nature of the treatment
program.
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Grief
Past losses can affect peace of mind and may be a relapse trigger if left unresolved.
Use of alcohol and other drugs can prevent or interrupt the process of grief.
By addressing these losses in a group, new tools can be discovered to assist
in dealing with the ongoing grief in one's life.
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One to One Sessions
One-to-one counseling provides an opportunity to meet individually with the Spiritual
Care counselor. These sessions provide opportunities to affirm spiritual awakening
and awareness and to discover blocks to spirituality.
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Sunday Group
Each Sunday, patients join the Spiritual Care staff in nondenominational prayer,
ritual, reflection and meditation. The goals of these groups are to encourage
personal renewal, and to provide an opportunity to surrender to a Higher Power
and gain hope.
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Patient Lectures
Spiritual Care staff members present lectures to patients regularly on themes
including Spirituality, the 12 Steps, Surrender and Meditation, Forgiveness,
Grief and Loss. The lectures help patients explore the inner journey of recovery
and provide the opportunity to embrace a meaningful sense of spirituality.
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Family Lectures
During the five-day Family
Program, Spiritual Care staff members assist the participants in gaining
insight into the spirituality of their own recovery from the effects of the disease
of addiction. The lectures focus on spirituality as the basis of a new life in
recovery.
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Other Betty Ford Center Programs
Spiritual Care staff members offer services to the Professional Recovery and
Relapse Program, the Professional
in Residence Program, the Summer
Institute for Medical Students and the Alumni
Program. Spiritual Care staff provides assistance to these programs with
lectures, therapeutic groups and personal interactions on the vital importance
of spirituality in recovery.
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Spiritual Enhancement
Prior to leaving treatment, each person meets with a Spiritual Care counselor
to confirm the insights and awareness gained through treatment. This meeting
affirms ongoing spiritual practices and rituals that will help the individual
sustain spirituality in recovery.
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5th Step
If needed, a Spiritual Care counselor is available to hear and "accompany" a
person through this deeper process of self-reflection and honesty when a person
reaches the 5th Step of the 12 Step process.
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Musical Credit
Music is from Soundings of the Planet who has been
making relaxation and healing music for over 20 years. Their music has been played
in hospitals and by hypnotherapists. You may visit their Web site at www.PeaceThroughMusic.com,
or you can call them at (800) 937 - 3223.
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