Recovery
Scott is now doing private sessions with people using the Natural Rest Method on addictions of all kinds. Email him at scott@kiloby.com or visit http://livingrealization.org/private-sessions/ and put "Natural Rest" in the subject line.
A Note from Scott:
If you are suffering and seeking within the grips of addiction, I invite you to take a look at what is being said on this page (and on this site generally).
I spent twenty years in active addiction. Upon getting clean, I searched every twelve step method, religion, self-help book, teaching, and positive thinking program that I could find. The seeking for spiritual enlightenment or self-help became my new drug. It was only when I met the non-dual message that the addictive cravings and obsession greatly diminished, to the point of being virtually absent. Presence was the key. I want to share this message with anyone who is interested!
Scott Kiloby
Natural Rest is an holistic addiction recovery method based on presence. The Introduction to Natural Rest is below.
Scott is working with a publisher on how to bring Natural Rest to a wider audience. Stay tuned... The book should be released in 2012, hopefully within the first six months.
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Other recommended sites (involving recovery/presence):
www.integralrecovery.com
http://zenbitchslap.com/
"Through identification with thinking, we are seeking in time to complete a self that is being created by the activity of thinking itself. That is addiction." ~Scott Kiloby
Addiction and Unfindable Desires
Is your desire for an addictive substance or activity actually findable when you look? If not, watch the desire dissolve.
Wake Up and Then Clean Up the Mess (Dialogue with Hugh Osborne)
Scott Kiloby talks with Hugh Osborne, from hugh-osborne.com about recovery and nondual presence. Hugh's approach is similar to the Natural Rest Method. Yet Hugh's view on recovery contains its own flavor also, backed by years of experience in recovery and working as a therapist helping others.
Recovery-A New Paradigm
Through resting in presence, and allowing all thoughts, emotions, and sensations to be as they are, the addict begins to experience a newfound freedom to not follow each thought, emotion, or sensation that arises. Through resting in presence, the pull towards the object or towards the future can dissolve away on its own. This approach to recovery is more helpful than developing a better story or ego. This approach helps the addict see through the ego itself. It helps the addict see through the sense of separation. When the addict no longer identifies with thoughts, the thoughts are allowed to come through freely and uninterruptedly. But the clinging to those thoughts for a sense of self releases itself. In that release, the addict stops seeing himself as an object, cut off and separate from other objects "out there." Therefore the seeking towards those objects releases itself. And the incessant, over-active thinking relaxes. Through presence, the addict experiences a quiet mind. That quiet mind is like a warm bath that embraces him in all situations, providing a sense of freedom, peace, and well-being. When the addict experiences real freedom, peace, and well-being, the need for a fix dissolves away. And the need to identify himself as an addict or "sick person" falls away too.
Natural Rest-Book on Recovery Coming Soon
The Natural Rest of the present moment is overlooked continuously by addicts. Addiction can be defined as the self-centered energy that seeks to escape the Natural Rest of the present moment. Relaxing into presence on a repeated basis has incredible transformative power for addicts. Who would have known that the key to freedom from addiction already lies within us . . .
Natural Rest Book Reviews
Early Reviews here
Wake Up and Then Clean Up the Mess (Dialogue with Hugh Osborne)
In this interview, Scott speaks with Hugh Osborne at hugh-osborne.com regarding a recovery model based on nondual presence. Hugh's model is simple to the Natural Rest Method but carries its own unique flavor.
An Addict Is An Escape Artist
If you are interested in non-dual realization as it applies to addiction, please read this first.
Paul Hedderman, Selfing
Paul Hedderman's site is zenbitchslap.com. A truly unique and clear voice on the topic of how the recognition of 'no self' impacts addiction and recovery. Paul's explanation of 'selfing' is great. Listen and enjoy! See if there is a 'dawning.'
KiloLogue with John Astin
John and Scott discuss non-dual realization and how it affects addiction and recovery. The recognition of awareness is the end of the seeker.
KiloLogue with John Dupuy, Integral Recovery, Part 1
This is the first segment in a four part series. John Dupuy is the founder of an amazing program called Integral Recovery at www.integralrecovery.com, modeled after Ken Wilber's Integral Theory.
Rob McNamara is also involved in the conversation. Rob has contributed to the Integral movement over the past 8 years as a leading integral practitioner. Rob has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute, served as one of the core faculty for the Integral Life Practice seminars, contributed to Integral Life, taught at Boulder Integral and is an Integral Coach for iEvolve. Rob’s area of expertise is the intersection of integral practice, human performance and integral strength training.
Scott endorses Integral Recovery as it includes total overall spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical health for the recovering addict. In this first part, John and Scott discuss integral theory as applied to addiction, mainly the four quadrants.