Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Today's Gift
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. --Helen Keller
Morning Cues
There is an important message for us first thing every day.
Often, once we get started with the day, we may not listen as closely to life and ourselves as we do in those still moments when we first awaken.
An ideal time to listen to ourselves is when we are laying quietly, our defenses are down, and we're open and most vulnerable.
What is the first feeling that floods through us, the feeling that perhaps we are trying to avoid during the business of the day? Are we angry, frustrated, hurt, or confused? That is what we need to focus on and work through. That's the issue we need to address.
When you awaken, what is the first idea or thought that enters your mind? Do you need to finish a timely project? Are you in need of a fun day? A restful day?
Do you feel sick and need to nurture yourself? Are you in a negative frame of mind? Do you have an issue to resolve with someone?
Do you need to tell someone something? Is something bothering you? Is something feeling particularly good?
Does an idea occur to you, something you could get or do that would feel good?
When you awaken, what is the first issue that presents itself? You don't have to be fearful. You don't have to rush. You can lay still and listen and then accept the message.
We can define some of our goals for the day by listening to the morning message.
Higher Power, help me let go of my need to be in resistance to the harmonic flow of life. Help me learn to go with the flow and accept the help and support that You have to offer me.
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
Others do not know what's best for us.
We do not know what's best for others.
It is our job to determine what's best for ourselves.
"I know what you need." . . . "I know what you should do." . . . "Now listen, this is what I think you should be working on right now."
These are audacious statements, beliefs that take us away from how we operate on a spiritual plane of life. Each of us is given the ability to be able to discern and detect our own path, on a daily basis. This is not always easy. We may have to struggle to reach that quiet, still place.
Giving advice, making decisions for others, mapping out their strategy, is not our job. Nor is it their job to direct us. Even if we have a clean contract with someone to help us - such as in a sponsorship relationship - we cannot trust that others always know what is best for us. We are responsible for listening to the information that comes to us. We are responsible for asking for guidance and direction. But it is our responsibility to sift and sort through information, and then listen to ourselves about what is best for us. Nobody can know that but ourselves.
A great gift we can give to others is to be able to trust in them - that they have their own source of guidance and wisdom, that they have the ability to discern what is best for them and the right to find that path by making mistakes and learning.
To trust ourselves to be able to discover - through that same imperfect process of struggle, trial, and error - is a great gift we can give ourselves.
Action for the Day: Today, I will remember that we are each given the gift of being able to discover what is best for ourselves. Higher Power, help me trust that gift.
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
This perverse soul-sickness is not pleasant to look upon.
Instincts on rampage balk at investigation.
The minute we make a serious attempt to probe them,
we are liable to suffer severe reactions.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 44 - 45
Thought to Ponder
We need to uncover in order to recover.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S O L U T I O N S = Saving Our Lives Using The Inventory Of Needed Steps
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Let yourself imagine something wonderful. Then imagine yourself making it happen.
Think of an experience you’ve recently had, and imagine what would make it better. How can you imagine making it more positive, useful, productive, or enriching?
Reality is what it is, and at the same time is subject to immediate change. Allow bold and positive imagination to drive that change in your life.
You can imagine away the limitations. Then, inspired and informed by imagination, you can successfully transcend those limitations.
You can imagine a whole lifetime’s worth of fulfilling, beneficial scenarios. Then, you can imagine practical, workable ways to bring what you imagine to life.
What do you desire most for your life, your community, your family, your world? Dare to imagine it in rich detail, and let the power of your imagination push you to make it happen.
Let yourself imagine something wonderful. Then imagine yourself making it happen.
Think of an experience you’ve recently had, and imagine what would make it better. How can you imagine making it more positive, useful, productive, or enriching?
Reality is what it is, and at the same time is subject to immediate change. Allow bold and positive imagination to drive that change in your life.
You can imagine away the limitations. Then, inspired and informed by imagination, you can successfully transcend those limitations.
You can imagine a whole lifetime’s worth of fulfilling, beneficial scenarios. Then, you can imagine practical, workable ways to bring what you imagine to life.
What do you desire most for your life, your community, your family, your world? Dare to imagine it in rich detail, and let the power of your imagination push you to make it happen.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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