Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Today's Gift
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily. ― Tia Walker
One of our choices in life is choosing what we want to think - using our mental energy positively.
Positive mental energy, positive thinking, does not mean we think unrealistically or revert to denial. If we don't like something, we respect our own opinion. If we spot a problem, we're honest about it. if something isn't working out, we accept reality. But we don't dwell on the negative parts of our experience.
Whatever we give energy to, we empower.
There is magic in empowering the good, because whatever we empower grows bigger. One way to empower the good is through affirmations: simple positive statements we make to ourselves: I love myself... I'm good enough... My life is good...I'm glad I'm alive today... What I want and need is coming to me... I can...
Our choice in life is not whether to use affirmations. We've been affirming thoughts and beliefs since we were old enough to speak. The choice in life is what we want to affirm.
Today, I will empower the good in myself, others, and life. I'm willing to release, or let go of, negative thought patterns and replace them with positive ones. I will choose what I want to affirm, and I will make it 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
We sometimes find it difficult to accept a compliment. We may feel we don't deserve such attention, and point out reasons why the compliment is untrue. When we act this way, we show a lack of love for ourselves.
God teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Yet, before we can love anyone, we must believe we are worthy of the same love. No creature is undeserving of love, our Higher Power reminds us of that. We can stop hiding behind feelings of unworthiness. There's nothing stopping us but ourselves. Sometimes it takes courage to say thank you when we get a compliment. Let's exercise that courage, and each time we do, we'll find our self-love growing.
Action for the Day: When I thank people today, I will have the courage to smile too.
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
If we really depended upon our Higher Power, we couldn't very well play Them to our fellows
nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength
and peace that could not be deeply shaken by the shortcomings of others
or by any calamity not of our own making.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, "Step Twelve," p. 116
Thought to Ponder
I never imagined that the greatest achievement of my life would be peace of mind.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F R O G = Fully Rely On Goodness
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Think a positive thought, and you’ll take a positive action. Take a positive action, and you’ll get a valuable result
Thoughts can often seem easy, light, and inconsequential. After all, on its own a mere thought doesn’t have the power to do anything.
However, you most certainly have the power to do many things. And your thoughts are what determine and direct the actions you take.
If you continually focus your thoughts on the things you don’t want, those things will surely find their way into your life. By the same measure, focusing your thoughts on your most positive possibilities enables you to make those possibilities real.
When life brings you disappointment after disappointment, it’s easy to make all your thoughts negative ones. Yet it is just as easy, and far more empowering, to respond with positive thinking.
If you had the power to change your life for the better, would you use that power? You do indeed have that power, and it is in the thoughts you choose to think.
Think a positive thought, and you’ll take a positive action. Take a positive action, and you’ll get a valuable result
Thoughts can often seem easy, light, and inconsequential. After all, on its own a mere thought doesn’t have the power to do anything.
However, you most certainly have the power to do many things. And your thoughts are what determine and direct the actions you take.
If you continually focus your thoughts on the things you don’t want, those things will surely find their way into your life. By the same measure, focusing your thoughts on your most positive possibilities enables you to make those possibilities real.
When life brings you disappointment after disappointment, it’s easy to make all your thoughts negative ones. Yet it is just as easy, and far more empowering, to respond with positive thinking.
If you had the power to change your life for the better, would you use that power? You do indeed have that power, and it is in the thoughts you choose to think.
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