Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Today's Gift
You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment. —David D. Burns
Good thoughts are like bright colors in a painting. Negative thoughts are dark and dreary and drab. Each day we paint pictures of our own lives with our thoughts. If we step back and look at the canvas, we will see whether the picture is alive with bright colors or dreary and lifeless like a dark cloud. Our thoughts have the power to bring joy or sadness our way, depending on what we expect or look for in our surroundings. The choice of how we want our lives to be is ours. Since we paint a new picture each day, we are always free to change things when they don't please us. What better time than the present?
Is there something in my life I'd like to change today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
A complete revaluation takes place in your physical and mental being when you've laughed and had some fun. --Catherine Ponder
Norman Cousins, in his book Anatomy of an Illness, describes how he cured his fatal illness with laughter. Laughter recharges our entire being; every cell is activated. We come alive, and full vitality restores us physically and emotionally. Many of us need both emotional and physical healing, but perhaps we've overlooked the times to laugh because we've been caught in a negative posture.
Unfortunately, negativity becomes habitual for many of us. However, it's never too late to turn our lives around, to laugh instead of complain. Choosing to see the bright side of life, to laugh at our mistakes, lessens our pain, emotional and physical. Laughter encourages wellness. It is habit-forming and, better yet, contagious. Bringing laughter to others can heal them as well.
We all want health and happiness in ourselves and others, and we can find it by creating it. The best prescription for whatever ails us may well be a good laugh.
Action for the Day: Today I'll seek out those chances to dispense a little medicine.
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
Happy, Joyous, and Free
We are sure our Higher Power wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.
We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears,
though it once was just that for many of us.
But it is clear that we made our own misery. Our Higher Power didn't do it.
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes,
cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate Their omnipotence.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 133
Thought to Ponder
Joy is in knowing there is an answer.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today?
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Power of action
by Ralph Marston
The task is what it is. Labeling it as difficult or undesirable only gets in the way of getting it done.
See it instead as empowering. See it as the opportunity it is, the opportunity to make a difference, to exercise your influence.
If you evade, procrastinate, or descend into self pity, you’re mainly hurting yourself. Yet you can choose a much more positive path.
You have what it takes to do what you must. Put the power of action on your side.
Confidence is there, waiting for you to claim it. Achievement is in sight, and you can act to make it yours.
Right now, you can set in motion the power of your action. Without hesitation, go ahead and get it done.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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