Like this:

That is may favorite definition for the word CONFRONT. This definition immediately suggests that if you are avoiding or not squarely looking at something you are not confronting.

At first glance you may not think this has much to do with drug use or recovery from the effects of drugs. If so you may be surprised to find out it has very much to do with both.

Consider for a moment that Confronting is an Ability. So it is something that can be acquired, practiced and improved thereby. What good would a high confront or strong ability to face something without flinching or avoiding be? Take a look at the areas of your life you avoid. If you are avoiding it, can you at the same time be successful in handling it? Can you even really see it in detail? Conversely, those areas of life where you are capable, you might now notice the you can confront in those areas.

What if you found a method to raise your ability to confront? Might it translate into helping you better handle, face, see, and control those parts of life you tend to avoid? Many people notice the correlation between an improved confront and making their lives go better. Isn’t that interesting?

In the case of a person who has been using drugs, what is the level of their confront? They may be able to confront the idea of not using drugs and even consider the idea to be a good one—but an idea if very light and involves little effort to create or face. Ask them to take some action on the that idea and immediately they have to face force. It may be a force in their minds but you might as well have asked them to bench press a truck. This force may be the real or imagined withdrawal pain from an earlier attempt to quit.

What is the level of confront of a person under the influence of various drugs. Much of the behavior is not in agreement with the person himself when not on the drug so to what degree is the person himself really in control let alone able to really confront.

Here is a question. What was the person not confronting to start using drugs in the first place? Was it a lost love, lost job, possible loss of people considered important? If something like that is at the root of the drug use, raising confront is going to be very necessary to achieve a full and stable recovery.

The only program I know of that actually addresses this ability is the program on this site.

You must be able to face life to live it enjoyably!

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