The most critical moment
- Tom Molyneux
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
You can consume countless hours of content on addiction recovery. But, there will always come to the inevitable moment of compulsive desire.
What do you actually choose in that exact moment that you want to engage in a compulsive behaviour? You feel uncomfortable, your mind is racing, and every time you've been in this situation before you've eventually said "to hell with it" and relapsed.
We focus very specifically on this moment because it is the inability to deal with the moment of compulsive desire correctly which causes serious problems in people's life. Once you know how to deal with this moment, you can crack on with your life, free of worry of relapsing.
And here is the interesting thing... When you are in an addiction, your mind will constantly be trying different tactics to get you to engage in your compulsion.
The addicted part of the mind (APOTM) will drag you into the past and then into the future. It will try and get you out of the moment. And you can feel like a puppet being pulled around on a string. You can feel helpless and out of control.
And that is why our work is focused on bringing people back into the present moment. This is the key ingredient to lasting success - the ability to get back into this moment, right now. This is what the 5-Fact script is designed to do. It helps people think through where acting on the desire will lead, and provides an alternative path that people can choose in the present moment. It is in that moment that people have a critical choice to make. That is where real change takes place.
You can not unlearn what we teach inside of the Beyond Compulsion Academy.
And once you know what we know, you'll realise the power of decision-making in the present moment and how transformative developing this skill truly is.
Peace and purpose comes to those willing to do the work of thinking through choices rationally, and consistently, in the moments of compulsive desire.
