Meditation thoughts are a bit of an oxymoron. Meditation is actually about getting beyond thoughts, depending on the tradition. The strongest meditation traditions are from the East, India, China, and Japan, for example, and are associated with Eastern religions. I have been a student of the 11th step in AA, Transcendental Meditation, and Chi Gong. I do not know anything about Buddhist or Hindu or Zen meditation thoughts. My first experience with meditation thoughts was in Transcendental Meditation, which became popular in the West during the 1960's when the Beatles studied with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. I was struggling a bit then, so I read a book, and since it did not appear too hard, I was initiated in that tradition and given a mantra. The mantra, or meditation thought for this tradition, was a nonsense syllable which I was to repeat in my twice daily practices. I really enjoyed the meditation process, but at that time I was living with a number of Viet Nam veterans and we partied heavily, and whenever they thought I was indulging in my meditative discipline, they would pelt me with beer cans.

A lot of concepts have seen a transformation in past two centuries and one of them is change in moral and cultural values of societies. Use of Alcohol was earlier seen as a status symbol, but with time, it turned into a form of addiction for many. Reasons and factors did vary from regions and different cultures. Regrettably, it took more time to understand that alcoholism is a drug addiction. "Because we have been led to believe that drug addiction or alcohol addiction is a disease. We have been told that the only way to "recuperate" is to attend treatment and endless AA, NA meetings for the rest of our lives. " Any drug addiction as well as alcohol addiction is not a disease rather a choice. One does not has to be a passive bystander to an illusory disease of drug addiction or alcohol addiction; one should give up his willpower; be marked as an alcoholic or "in recovery"; or turn up meetings and treatment for the rest of his/her life! Those that are struggling with alcohol addiction or any other drug addiction reach to a conclusion that larlgely the typical thinking is not working in their favour.