The Importance of Living Your Dreams in Sobriety

It is not only a nice thing for your dreams to come alive in sobriety, but it can also be the surest way to keep your sobriety strong and certain. For most of us life was pretty miserable before we could walk away from the booze or stop using our other favorite drug. The great news is that we really can live our dreams in sobriety. It is like we are being repaid for all the suffering we went through. We weren't the only people to suffer though those years of abuse, and we shouldn't forget that, but the best way that we can repay those other people who suffered is by being happy and being fruitful.

I remember being told years ago that the greatest gift of sobriety was freedom for our fears. Most of us soon learn we sleep a lot better after we get comfortable in recovery; in fact I sleep like a baby most nights unless my baby son wakes me up or I have drank too much coffee during the day. I sleep easy because I have no real fear anymore. Recovering addicts no longer fear what life has in store, because they have lived with some of the worst conditions possible; they no longer fear dying and going to hell because they spent years living in hell and managed to escape. All this freedom from fear means that we are prepared to take chances, and we should take chances because our luck is most definitely changing.

In fact it is nothing to do with luck, we are getting back what we are due; we earned our dreams the hard way. The life of an alcoholic or drug addict is the hardest training ground anywhere and we graduated; alcoholism is a ruthless teacher and if you don't learn your lessons in time you die. We survived that and this means that we are well ahead of the line when it comes to getting our dreams come to life.

I am fully convinced in the law of karma; you don't have to be a Buddhist or Hindu to believe in it, and you don't even have to hug a tree. I feel completely certain that if you do good things then good things will happen; our addiction is 100% evidence that the opposite is true. When we get sober we create a powerful surge of positivity in our life and this will take us to our dream. That was what the addiction was all about in the first place. We couldn't find our path so we drank to cope and as bizarre as it sounds we learnt from it; our addiction can take us all the way to where we wanted to go to from the beginning if we can only say goodbye to it. The long journey is over and we have made it; we have arrived in our dream world where anything can happen. The days of fear are over.

I am living proof of the power of all of this. Things have happened in my life since getting sober three years ago that just would have been imaginable to me while drinking. All the dreams I had as a child, and before turning to drink, are coming true for me - all of them. Your dreams will come true as well if you let them; the whole purpose of all that pain was for this to happen so let it. You have earned your dreams so go get them.