Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Today's Gift
To be alive means to experience difficulties, conflicts, challenges from many directions. What we do with adverse conditions both determines and is determined by who we are. Resistance, most of us have learned, heightens the adversity. Acceptance of the condition, trusting all the while the lesson it offers us is for our benefit, ensures that we'll "come out on top."
Difficulties are opportunities for advancement, for increased self-awareness, for self-fulfillment. So often we hear and remind one another, that we grow through pain. We can face any situation knowing we have the strength to shore us up. Strangely, we need challenges in order to grow; without growth we wither. Happiness is the bounty for facing the momentarily unhappy conditions.
Action for the Day: Any difficulty I meet today offers me a chance for even greater happiness; it guarantees my growth.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Readiness
We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready
to let our Higher Power remove from us all the things which we have admitted are
objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to
something we will not let go, we ask our Higher Power to help us be willing.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 76
Thought to Ponder . . .
My faults do not make me faulty; they make me human.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A C T I O N = Any Change To Improve Our Nature
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Live with confidence
by Ralph Marston
In you, there is goodness. Be confident in that goodness.
In you, there is life. Have confidence in that life.
You have the very real ability to do great things. With your goodness, with your life, through your purpose you can make a difference.
Choose to have the confidence to truly make the world a better place. Choose to express the goodness that’s within you by fulfilling your best possibilities.
Be a leader who leads by positive example. Express your love for life with confidence, grace, humility, gratitude and original creativity.
Life is beautiful and unlimited in its possibilities, and you have life in this very moment. Live with the confidence of knowing how good you have it and how much more beautiful you can make it be.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. --Tyra Banks
"I woke up this morning and I had a hard time for a while," said one person. "Then I realized it was because I wasn't liking myself very much." People often say: I just don't like myself. When will I start liking myself?
The answer is: start now. We can learn to be gentle, loving, and nurturing with ourselves. Of all the recovery behaviors we're striving to attain, loving ourselves may be the most difficult, and the most important. If we are habitually harsh and critical toward ourselves, learning to be gentle with ourselves may require dedicated effort.
But what a valuable venture!
By not liking ourselves, we may be perpetuating the discounting, neglect, or abuse we received in childhood from the important people in our life. We didn't like what happened then, but find ourselves copying those who mistreated us by treating ourselves poorly.
We can stop the pattern. We can begin giving ourselves the loving, respectful treatment we deserve.
Instead of criticizing ourselves, we can tell ourselves we performed well enough.
We can wake up in the morning and tell ourselves we deserve a good day.
We can make a commitment to take good care of ourselves throughout the day.
We can recognize that were deserving of love. We can do loving things for ourselves.
We can love other people and let them love us.
People, who truly love themselves do not become destructively self-centered. They do not abuse others. They do not stop growing and changing. People who love themselves well, learn to love others well too. They continually grow into healthier people, learning that their love was appropriately placed.
Today, I will love myself. If I get caught in the old pattern of not liking myself, I will find a way to get out.
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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Difficulties, opposition, criticism--these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm, and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. --Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Difficulties, opposition, criticism--these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm, and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. --Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
To be alive means to experience difficulties, conflicts, challenges from many directions. What we do with adverse conditions both determines and is determined by who we are. Resistance, most of us have learned, heightens the adversity. Acceptance of the condition, trusting all the while the lesson it offers us is for our benefit, ensures that we'll "come out on top."
Difficulties are opportunities for advancement, for increased self-awareness, for self-fulfillment. So often we hear and remind one another, that we grow through pain. We can face any situation knowing we have the strength to shore us up. Strangely, we need challenges in order to grow; without growth we wither. Happiness is the bounty for facing the momentarily unhappy conditions.
Action for the Day: Any difficulty I meet today offers me a chance for even greater happiness; it guarantees my growth.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
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One Day At A Time
Readiness
We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready
to let our Higher Power remove from us all the things which we have admitted are
objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to
something we will not let go, we ask our Higher Power to help us be willing.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 76
Thought to Ponder . . .
My faults do not make me faulty; they make me human.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A C T I O N = Any Change To Improve Our Nature
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Live with confidence
by Ralph Marston
In you, there is goodness. Be confident in that goodness.
In you, there is life. Have confidence in that life.
You have the very real ability to do great things. With your goodness, with your life, through your purpose you can make a difference.
Choose to have the confidence to truly make the world a better place. Choose to express the goodness that’s within you by fulfilling your best possibilities.
Be a leader who leads by positive example. Express your love for life with confidence, grace, humility, gratitude and original creativity.
Life is beautiful and unlimited in its possibilities, and you have life in this very moment. Live with the confidence of knowing how good you have it and how much more beautiful you can make it be.
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