Quiet Time Recovered

Research tells stories of 
neurotransmitters
neuroscience
synapses and
receptor sites
all chattering to each other

all the little gadgety things 
tucked inside our skulls
that we can’t see
we can’t feel
but that run the show

scientists do their research - good
big pharma use the data for designing medicine - good
physicians provide us with diagnosis and treatment - good
nurses create care plans and health teaching - good
But what about the recipients of all of that knowledge?
How do we fit in?
And when?
Our hearts, our minds and our souls - they must fit in!

In recovery, it is the soul
the intention,
the will
and maybe, most of all, the desire 
for an normal life outside of a chemical, managed world.

These unmeasurable ideas and thoughts
exist in a place within each of us.
Picking them out of the air,
examining them and rearranging one’s life
whether research and programs are ready, set up ~ or not ~
is a challenge amid all the clickety clackety noise of data.

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind

must be extraordinarily quiet, still”

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti