Thursday, March 16, 2017
Today's Gift
We are all deserving of unconditional love and acceptance. And all the people in our lives, past and present, deserve our unconditional love and acceptance, too. However, it's doubtful that we either feel it all of the time from others or give it away.
It's human of us to find fault--to have expectations that are too high. But for this we pay a price. Instead of experiencing our lives serenely, contentedly, flowing with what is, we often criticize, judge, and feel generally disgruntled throughout the day. What a waste! We do have another choice, fortunately. We can let go and let God, and live and let live. Also we can recall, today and every day, that we are all special individuals in this world who are loved, fully, by our Creator.
The greatest contribution we can make to the lives of others is to be affirming. We can let our spouse, children, and friends know we care about them. That we love and accept them. The love that we also long for will come back to us. We thrill at being affirmed. And we will thrill at affirming.
Action for the Day: It feels good to help another feel appreciated. Love and acceptance is my lifeline, from Goodness around us all.
Without Defense
We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with
sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a
week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
~ Alcoholics Anonymous, p 24
Thought to Ponder . . .
The monkey’s asleep but the circus hasn’t left town.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Answer Available
Hurt feelings
by Ralph Marston
What if you could simply laugh at the things that might hurt your feelings? Actually, you can, and when you do, it’s powerful.
You cannot control the behavior of others. Yet you absolutely control the way you respond to and internalize their words and actions.
You can choose to be hurt, or you can choose to be amused. You can choose to be angry and offended, or you can choose to be informed, calm, thoughtful, in control.
Sometimes other people seek to hurt your feelings, sometimes they do it out of ignorance or carelessness. But none of that matters because it is their problem, not yours.
Laugh it off and move on. You have better ways to invest your thoughts, your time, your energy.
Let your feelings be based on what you choose, not on anyone else’s foolish choices. And feel the solid, authentic power and confidence it gives you.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. ― Norman Vincent Peale
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong.
It takes practice to see what's right.
Many of us have lived around negativity for years. We've become skilled at labeling what's wrong with other people, our life, our work, our day, our relationships, our conduct, our recovery, and ourselves.
We want to be realistic, and our goal is to identify and accept reality. However, this is often not our intent when we practice negativity. The purpose of negativity is usually annihilation.
Negative thinking empowers the problem. It takes us out of harmony. Negative energy sabotages and destroys. It has a powerful life of its own.
So does positive energy. Each day, we can ask what's right, what's good - about other people, our life, our work, our day, our relationships, ourselves, our conduct, our recovery.
Positive energy heals, conducts love, and transforms. Choose positive energy.
Today, High Power help me let go of negativity. Transform my beliefs and thinking, at the core, from negative to positive. Put me in harmony with the good.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return. --Marjorie Bowen
Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return. --Marjorie Bowen
We are all deserving of unconditional love and acceptance. And all the people in our lives, past and present, deserve our unconditional love and acceptance, too. However, it's doubtful that we either feel it all of the time from others or give it away.
It's human of us to find fault--to have expectations that are too high. But for this we pay a price. Instead of experiencing our lives serenely, contentedly, flowing with what is, we often criticize, judge, and feel generally disgruntled throughout the day. What a waste! We do have another choice, fortunately. We can let go and let God, and live and let live. Also we can recall, today and every day, that we are all special individuals in this world who are loved, fully, by our Creator.
The greatest contribution we can make to the lives of others is to be affirming. We can let our spouse, children, and friends know we care about them. That we love and accept them. The love that we also long for will come back to us. We thrill at being affirmed. And we will thrill at affirming.
Action for the Day: It feels good to help another feel appreciated. Love and acceptance is my lifeline, from Goodness around us all.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
Without Defense
We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with
sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a
week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
~ Alcoholics Anonymous, p 24
Thought to Ponder . . .
The monkey’s asleep but the circus hasn’t left town.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Answer Available
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Hurt feelings
by Ralph Marston
What if you could simply laugh at the things that might hurt your feelings? Actually, you can, and when you do, it’s powerful.
You cannot control the behavior of others. Yet you absolutely control the way you respond to and internalize their words and actions.
You can choose to be hurt, or you can choose to be amused. You can choose to be angry and offended, or you can choose to be informed, calm, thoughtful, in control.
Sometimes other people seek to hurt your feelings, sometimes they do it out of ignorance or carelessness. But none of that matters because it is their problem, not yours.
Laugh it off and move on. You have better ways to invest your thoughts, your time, your energy.
Let your feelings be based on what you choose, not on anyone else’s foolish choices. And feel the solid, authentic power and confidence it gives you.
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