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Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny

Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny

We triumph over life’s inevitable challenges not by the exercise of willpower or brute force but by tapping into the power of the Infinite. Many paths lead to our ultimate awakening, and most begin with spiritual discomfort wrapped in fear. Sickness (our own or a loved ones), addiction, financial stress, a failed relationship and death (a loved one or contemplating our own) are all beginnings, for truly “the only instrument sharp enough to cut away the excess of self is pain.” The greatest gift we can give ourselves is a foundation in faith before these assaults on our serenity begin. The pain and discomfort of dealing with the ultimate questions of living will not be avoided, but we will have a clear-cut set of directions to follow out of the wilderness to peace of mind and heart.

To follow this path we must set aside our preconceived ideas and don a new pair of glasses and “Become quick to see where spiritual people are right and make use of what they offer.” Laying aside our prejudices we listen and learn with our heart, for in the end, isn’t finding a way out more important than who provides it? If you were drowning and a rope appeared before seizing it would you first question who held it? So, we put aside any lingering prejudice against any spiritual path and make use of what they have to offer, taking what we need at this time and leaving the rest (remember, this selfishness is God inspired and is part of our growth) and join them in “trudging the road of happy destiny.”  
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© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit All Rights Reserved

Extravagant Promises? No.


Extravagant Promises? No.

The promises from Living on the Spiritual Basis are pearls beyond price: “We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past or wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace…That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear…Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us…When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands were better than anything we could have planned…As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His Presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter. We were reborn.”

        “Are these extravagant promises? We think not…They will always materialize if we work for them” (Alcoholics Anonymous).

If this and more is promised to those suffering from addiction, could you expect anything less in your life? Place your will and life into the hands of the Miraculous and this and so much more is yours, for it is the Promise and God keeps all His promises.

Miracles Of Recovery


© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit All Rights Reserved

Miracles Of Recovery

Vincent Lee Jones

714-366-1725 vlj@miraclesofrecovery.com

Specialties:

  • Assisting those not only struggling with addiction in all its forms and guises, but their loved ones as well.
  • Guide not only to classic 12 Step based recovery, but other modalities and paths since recovery is not one size fits all.
  • As an avid hiker I incorporate nature into recovery, to slow down and appreciate the beauty and serenity found in simple things.

As someone who lost nearly everything to substance abuse and is intimately familiar with the day to day realities of recovery, over the last 30+ years I have successfully worked with thousands of individuals from all walks and strata of life: teens to the retired, people in the mainstream and on the fringes of society to the instantly recognizable, prosperous to those struggling to survive; representing the full spectrum of Spiritual beliefs and practices, suffering from all manner of substance and behavior-based addictions. Additionally, working with and providing support to the families of and those who care about the sufferer, since addiction’s powerful grip in all its guises and manifestations is often baffling to fully comprehend.

Some Career Highlights:

  • Creator of Miracles Of Recovery
  • Ordained Minister
  • Published over 2000 pieces on The Spiritual Basis of Living at: Living In Spirit
  • Over 600 recovery-based videos on YouTube at: Vincent Lee Jones
  • Designed and built Treatment Centers, Sober Living Residences and Laboratories utilizing a workforce comprised almost exclusively of people new or returning to recovery, helping them to learn a trade and since many had relapsed numerous times, in concert with treatment professionals at Healing Path Recovery worked with them to begin truly building a foundation to live free of addiction. This program changed many lives.
  • Worked pro bono with at risk students at Huntington Beach High School for 5 years.
  • Have taught recovery/Spiritual principles as a Facilitator for 15+ years.
  • Served on the Orange County California Intergroup Board of Alcoholics Anonymous as Board Vice Chairman and Chairman of Group Relations, worked as a committee Chairman for 5 years on the annual OC AA Convention and have handled the Prison and Jail correspondence for the Orange County Hospitals and Institutions Committee for 20 years. Past Chairman “Thursday’s Fellowship” 501 C 3.
  • Founded a teaching group which studies the history of recovery in all its aspects, open to all who suffer and their loved ones, leading it for 20+ years and am a locally recognized recovery historian.
  • Author of Hightower Chronicled.

Miracles Of Recovery

Vincent Lee Jones

714-366-1725 vlj@miraclesofrecovery.com

Specialties:

  • Assisting those not only struggling with addiction in all its forms and guises, but their loved ones as well.
  • Guide not only to classic 12 Step based recovery, but other modalities and paths since recovery is not one size fits all.
  • As an avid hiker I incorporate nature into recovery, to slow down and appreciate the beauty and serenity found in simple things.

As someone who lost nearly everything to substance abuse and is intimately familiar with the day to day realities of recovery, over the last 30+ years I have successfully worked with thousands of individuals from all walks and strata of life: teens to the retired, people in the mainstream and on the fringes of society to the instantly recognizable, prosperous to those struggling to survive; representing the full spectrum of Spiritual beliefs and practices, suffering from all manner of substance and behavior-based addictions. Additionally, working with and providing support to the families of and those who care about the sufferer, since addiction’s powerful grip in all its guises and manifestations is often baffling to fully comprehend.

Some Career Highlights:

  • Creator of Miracles Of Recovery https://miraclesofrecovery.com
    Published over 3000 pieces on The Spiritual Basis of Living at: Living In Spirit
  • Over 600 recovery-based videos on YouTube at: Vincent Lee Jones
  • Designed and built Treatment Centers, Sober Living Residences and Laboratories utilizing a workforce comprised almost exclusively of people new or returning to recovery, helping them to learn a trade and since many had relapsed numerous times, in concert with treatment professionals at Healing Path Recovery worked with them to begin truly building a foundation to live free of addiction. This program changed many lives.
  • Worked pro bono with at risk students at Huntington Beach High School for 5 years.
  • Have taught recovery/Spiritual principles as a Facilitator for 15+ years.
  • Served on the Orange County California Intergroup Board of Alcoholics Anonymous as Board Vice Chairman and Chairman of Group Relations, worked as a committee Chairman for 5 years on the annual OC AA Convention and have handled the Prison and Jail correspondence for the Orange County Hospitals and Institutions Committee for 20 years. Past Chairman “Thursday’s Fellowship” 501 C 3.
  • Founded a teaching group which studies the history of recovery in all its aspects, open to all who suffer and their loved ones, leading it for 20+ years and am a locally recognized recovery historian.
  • Author of Hightower Chronicled.

Treatment for addiction, as it is currently practiced, is an abject failure and anyone who says it isn’t is at best ill-informed and at worst a liar who is profiting off the suffering of others.

I’m pissed. No, I’m way beyond pissed. For the last year I have played by the fricken rules, made nice and tried to engage in conversation the shot callers in the Addiction Treatment Industry and Government leaders to start a real dialogue about addiction. But you see, I am not part of the club. I am just the guy on the front lines, down in the mud, the blood and the tears of addiction and have been for over 30 years. I am the guy who sits with the family to try and help them make sense out of how their child completed a treatment program, “coined” out, maybe even got a certificate of completion and 2 weeks after coming home died of an overdose. Or how their loved one came to California for treatment and then promptly checked out of the program and disappeared into the growing homeless community made up largely of people who did the same thing. And then there is that conversation were their child or loved one went to one of those “evidence based” cash only programs and now they are 100,000 dollars or more in debt and their loved one has come home with an implant to control cravings which has to be regularly renewed at substantial cost rarely covered by insurance. Or even better, addicted to Suboxone which they must take daily to avoid going into withdrawals, costing hundreds of dollars a month out of pocket. Oh, and Suboxone withdrawal symptoms make kicking Heroin look like a walk in the frickin park. And whether implant or Suboxone, the family is pretty much left to figure it out on their own since professional aftercare is virtually nonexistent because Health Care providers don’t cover it as the system is currently rigged. How long do they need the implants? How long should they stay on Suboxone? Do they have to go back to a Medical Detox to get off it, and who pays for that? Did you know that some of the “leaders” in the treatment field are even advocating keeping people on these drugs permanently as a solution? Some even suggesting under the guise of “harm reduction” that we establish safe injection sites staffed by trained medical professionals for heroin users “to protect them” while teaching alcoholics to drink “responsibly” which is a path that has been tried and failed for hundreds of years. Pure insanity.

We have been and are being lied too and as a result, 100’s of thousands have died and millions have suffered who could have been helped. Last year over 70,000 people, most of them young, died of an overdose. And this number does not reflect the 100’s of thousands of others who died of attendant causes to addiction. If someone dies in an accident under the influence, the level of intoxicants in their system may be noted, but the cause of death will be listed as blunt force trauma, exsanguination or some other cause and it is estimated that between 30 to 50% of suicides may be related to untreated or poorly treated substance abuse. An alcoholic’s death certificate typically reads: cirrhosis of the liver, gastroenteritis, esophageal varices (that’s were a blood vessel bursts in the throat and the person drowns in their own blood) and “accidents” like just falling and hitting their head resulting in a subdural hematoma listed as causes of death, but not addiction. Diseases like HIV, Hepatitis, AIDS, fungal infections, Endocarditis and Myocarditis and even TB from sharing needles leading to shortened lives and increased healthcare costs but not attributed directly to addiction. There are many more.

 

And though addiction has been recognized as a serious health issue for decades, hell, we even amended the Constitution to make alcohol illegal 100 years ago, yet addiction and those suffering from its’ ravages is worse today than ever before. Billions spent and decades worth of educational programs like Scared Straight, Just Say No and D.A.R.E. have accomplished precious little, uncounted Congressional hearings, wasted millions in grants and over a Trillion dollars spent on a failed war on drugs, which has been lost.

With the passage of the ACA (Obama care) in 2010 the Substance Abuse Treatment Industry exploded. To tap into this 60+billion dollar a year pile of money Treatment Centers sprang up all over the country, but primarily in Florida and Southern California which has now become known as the “Rehab Rivera” with over 1000 facilities currently in business. Their web pages invariably loaded with pictures of beautiful beaches and photoshopped smiling people. Many even making promises of long-term success touting impossible to verify statistics as to their “programs” effectiveness. 

Look, most of the people who work in the industry are there for the right reasons, many, if not most, people in recovery themselves. Unfortunately, because of the money available unsavory,  ethically bereft individuals who will say or do anything, screw the human cost, jumped in.

If you have lost someone to addiction who went through treatment or are losing someone now or are just sick and tired of feeling powerless, join me in changing the world of addiction, tearing down what has so clearly failed and replacing it with focused recovery tailored to the individual instead of forcing them into a “box” that ill fits. Long term engagement and real, consistent, aftercare for them and their families since addiction affects not only the sufferer but those who care and love them as well. And how to pay for it all without primarily relying on Healthcare Providers and Government. Go to https://miraclesofrecovery.com/ and read the blueprint, spread the word and contribute what you can to change the face of recovery, together we can change the world.

Miracles Of Recovery

https://miraclesofrecovery.com/

Death from drug overdose claims over 70,000 lives a year in America

Most of these deaths are people under 30, who had had multiple stays in treatment. We have the tools yet we are failing.

The conversation with a parent concerning the overdose death of their child is one of the hardest things I have ever done or will ever do, and would hope to never do again, but if nothing changes, there will be far too many more.

Nothing changes, if nothing changes.  

If you have lost someone to addiction and are tired of feeling powerless or are in recovery yourself and see the need for change, please donate and add your voice to help me remove the stigma of addiction, build bridges to the future and turn the current increasing tide of tragedy, suffering and death to one of joy, freedom and life. Your help and support will save lives.

With the steady increase in young people seeking help who are being poorly served by the current recovery communities, treatment modalities which abruptly stop due to Health Care Providers often arbitrary coverage guidelines, the current appalling lack of any real aftercare which has led to today’s unacceptably high relapse/overdose rates, and the increasing incidences of permanent mental illness from Synthetic Marijuana, Spice, Bath Salts and Crystal Meth, it is past time to act, to modernize the current recovery paradigm, to help all who suffer as well as those who love and care about them, to make sustainable long term healthy recovery real, affordable and available for the millions longing to be free of addiction.

Behind Every Cloud, The Sun Still Shines


When things are going well there is a natural tendency to slack off a touch, even in our spiritual work. The sun is shining, the clouds decorating a peaceful sky, perfect for watching lying on a soft bed of grass, peace immanent. Life is good. Though we do and should enjoy these times we must remain wary of complacency. Like the athlete who trains daily for occasional competitions, we pray and meditate daily to keep our connection to the Miraculous fresh and open for the inevitable storms that come to every life. Living on the Spiritual Basis we now understand the rain falls on the just and the unjust equally, not as punishment or Karma, but as opportunities to grow beyond limitation. Living on the new basis, the Spiritual Basis, today when a storm comes, we gently step back into the shelter of Spiritual Truth,out of the wind and rain, continuing to pray and meditate until the storm passes and peace returns. Having embraced eternity we now understand the truth of being, that behind every cloud, the sun still shines, and every storm brings the ingredients for growth and an opportunity to demonstrate faith and trust in a Power Greater Than Ourselves.

Miracles Of Recovery

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