by Patricia Healey

Created on: July 07, 2009   Last Updated: July 10, 2009

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CHRISTIAN DRUG REHAB OFFERS POSSIBILITY OF WHOLENESS

There is no doubt that Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous have spiritual foundations. Bill W., a founder of AA, corresponded with renowned psychologist C. G. Jung who explained the rationale for the integration of spirituality and religious experience in the treatment for addiction. Spiritus contra spiritum, wrote Jung to Bill W.1 Spiritus, Jung explains, means alcohol in Latin. Yet, spiritus also refers to the highest religious experience. When one is dis-spirited, feeling hopeless, one is tempted to reach for drugs or alcohol to heal the broken spirit. Jung explained that the spirits found in alcohol will not cure the dis-ease, but that religious experience may have the desired effect.. A Christian drug rehab will certainly lead those with addiction issues toward health and wholeness, especially since there are so many other corollaries between twelve step programs and religious experience.

COMMUNITY ESTABLISHED AT CHRISTIAN DRUG REHAB

Let's examine the sense of community that religious systems and a Christian drug rehab offer. As Jung explained, alcohol and drugs will not quench the thirst for wholeness, but finding community and hope in the company of others fills the spiritual void. Just as the Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim or Jew finds community at their chosen house of worship, so too does the addicted individual find a community of like-minded individuals at a Christian drug rehab.

STRUCTURE BRINGS WHOLENESS AT CHRISTIAN DRUG REHAB

A Buddhist meditation session begins with the ringing of a bell. Meditation concludes with a second ring of the bell. Structure brings wholeness. Similarly, a prescribed order can be found in other religious traditions, and at the Christian drug rehab center's twelve step meetings. People from diverse backgrounds enter the room and meld into one community sharing a common experience. Wholeness, however, is not achieved unless the proper structure is followed. People mill around for a bit. Then participants recite the Serenity Prayer. The leader introduces himself, makes announcements, congratulates those marking an anniversary and gives the floor to the speakers, who will introduce themselves in a characteristic manner,

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