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Friday, 7 July 2017

Reading Log #4

Book/Movie Title: How BJJ can be used as a powerful tool in  addiction  recovery
Author/Director: BJJee.com  Connor Hayes
Text Type: Article
Date Finished: July 4th 2017


How BJJ can be used as a powerful tool in drug addiction recovery is a article written by Connor Hayes from bjjee.com. The article is about how the martial art/combat sport of BJJ or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu can be used as a tool for recovering drug addicts and the reasoning behind why BJJ is useful for recovering drug addicts.


How BJJ can be used as a powerful tool in drug addiction recovery is a useful and informative article. It is a useful article because it has many good useful points about how BJJ helps drug addicts which may inspire a recovering addict to try BJJ for the reasons stated in the article. The first reason the article has for BJJ helping  recovering drug addicts is BJJ is a health motivator and will help drug addicts to live healthy so they are ready for competitions and can do well at the competitions because of wanting to do well in competition it helps drug addicts stay of drugs so they can win.The second reason the article had for BJJ helping recovering drug addicts is BJJ helps cure boredom this is good for recovering drug addicts because it can stop them from just sitting around and getting bored then going back to drugs because of being bored. The last major reason for BJJ helping recovering drug addicts is BJJ builds confidence and helps people to make friends building confidence is good for recovering drug addicts because is helps them feel good without being on drugs.Having new friends is also good because it can give you people to talk to about problems you may be having.


How BJJ can be used as a powerful tool in addiction recovery has an impact on all recovering drug addicts because when recovering from drugs its important to have something to take your mind off drugs and distract you from wanting to have drugs especially in the first few months of recovery. The article has an effect on me knowing that something i put most of my free time into can be used to help people who are going through tough times. It make me happy to see  that this article is on the internet because a person recovering from drugs may see it and decide to try the martial art and it could help them change their life and stop them from going back to drugs later on in life because  they will be to focused on improving them selves so they can win matches or just keep helathy.