Friday, October 19, 2018
Today's Gift
Meditation
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination
toward the right objectives. There's nothing the matter with constructive
imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it. After all, no man can build
a house until he first envisions a plan for it. Well, meditation is like that, too;
it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 100
Thought to Ponder
Meditation means trusting the silence around me for a while,
as if it were an answer I had long sought.
AA-related 'Alconym'
G R A C E = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Choose the best thoughts
If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart I could really see you. —David Brandon
Trying to control and change the people around us creates great problems in our relationships. When people we love are expressing themselves, we're thinking about what we wish they would say, and it blocks us from hearing clearly. A need for safety and for a guarantee that we won't be abandoned urges us to manipulate the people we love. We know we have innocent motives. We say we only want what is best and that we are only trying to protect ourselves or be helpful. But we hide from the effects our actions have on our relationships.
We seem to be more trapped in these self-centered behaviors with the ones we are closest to. We can change ourselves by slowly releasing our security grip on others. We can focus more on understanding what others are saying to us than on changing how they think and feel. Intimacy is clearly seeing each other and knowing the differences as well as the similarities. It requires that both people be allowed to walk on separate paths.
I will release my grip on my loved ones and turn to my Higher Power for security and serenity.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
Life is for enjoying. It is not a race to see how much you can get done. --Jill Clark
Before we quit using alcohol and other drugs, we wasted precious hours, days, maybe years. Consequently, we feel we must make up for lost time. We make promises and commitments we don't have the time or the energy to fulfill. This is a normal response to hindsight. After all, we missed many wonderful opportunities when our focus was on getting and staying high.
Making up for the past is different from making the most of each twenty-four hours. It's not how much we accomplish in life but how we treat others along the way that counts. We can accomplish our daily tasks while being kind to other people. But choosing the latter as the more important action will bring a far greater sense of well-being than succeeding at "moving mountains."
Action for the Day: I will get done everything I really need to do today if I focus on being kind to the people who cross my path.
Life is for enjoying. It is not a race to see how much you can get done. --Jill Clark
Before we quit using alcohol and other drugs, we wasted precious hours, days, maybe years. Consequently, we feel we must make up for lost time. We make promises and commitments we don't have the time or the energy to fulfill. This is a normal response to hindsight. After all, we missed many wonderful opportunities when our focus was on getting and staying high.
Making up for the past is different from making the most of each twenty-four hours. It's not how much we accomplish in life but how we treat others along the way that counts. We can accomplish our daily tasks while being kind to other people. But choosing the latter as the more important action will bring a far greater sense of well-being than succeeding at "moving mountains."
Action for the Day: I will get done everything I really need to do today if I focus on being kind to the people who cross my path.
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
Meditation
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination
toward the right objectives. There's nothing the matter with constructive
imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it. After all, no man can build
a house until he first envisions a plan for it. Well, meditation is like that, too;
it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 100
Thought to Ponder
Meditation means trusting the silence around me for a while,
as if it were an answer I had long sought.
AA-related 'Alconym'
G R A C E = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Build on the thoughts that serve you. Let go of the thoughts that don’t.
Every action begins with a thought. So choose the thoughts that lead to the most desirable, useful, productive, successful actions.
When a negative, limiting thought such as doubt or dismay appears, you can choose to make it disappear, to replace it with something else. If the negative thought should come back, you can kick it out again.
Changing the thoughts in your mind requires no physical effort, no long waiting period, no specialized skill. All that’s necessary is your intention to do so.
Think of a dark blue convertible driving along a winding, mountainous coastal highway just after sunset. If reading those words can change your thoughts, so can your own intention.
Your thoughts are continuously amplified by your actions into your experience of life. Choose the very best.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Build on the thoughts that serve you. Let go of the thoughts that don’t.
Every action begins with a thought. So choose the thoughts that lead to the most desirable, useful, productive, successful actions.
When a negative, limiting thought such as doubt or dismay appears, you can choose to make it disappear, to replace it with something else. If the negative thought should come back, you can kick it out again.
Changing the thoughts in your mind requires no physical effort, no long waiting period, no specialized skill. All that’s necessary is your intention to do so.
Think of a dark blue convertible driving along a winding, mountainous coastal highway just after sunset. If reading those words can change your thoughts, so can your own intention.
Your thoughts are continuously amplified by your actions into your experience of life. Choose the very best.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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