Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Today's Gift
Change occurs when one becomes what they are, not when they try to become what they are not. --Ruth P. Freedman
Learning self-acceptance, and then loving the selves we are, present perhaps our two biggest hurdles to the attainment of emotional and spiritual health. Fortunately, they are not insurmountable hurdles. The Universe offers ready assistance.
People everywhere are making great strides in self-love and self-acceptance. We are learning self-love. And we are changing. The support we can give each other, and the support we receive, multiplies many times the healthy energy created--healthy energy that touches us all.
Emotional and spiritual health are gifts offered by the Universe, when we accept it. We must move beyond our perfectionism and relish our humanness. We must learn humility and develop faith. Learning to love all our parts, the qualities we like and the traits that discouragingly hang on, offers a new freedom. A freedom that invites change. A freedom that safeguards the emotional and spiritual well-being that we strive for.
Confidence will come with my healthy self-acceptance.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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
For many of us, the issue is not whether we can trust another person again; it's whether we can trust our own judgment again.
"The last mistake I made almost cost me my sanity," said one recovering woman who married a sex addict. "I can't afford to make another mistake like that."
Many of us have trusted people, who went on to deceive, abuse, manipulate, or otherwise exploit us because we trusted them. We may have found these people charming, kind, and decent. There may have been a small voice that said, "No - something's wrong." Or we may have been comfortable with trusting that person and shocked when we found our instincts were wrong.
The issue may then reverberate through our life for years. Our trust in others may have been shaken, but our trust in ourselves may have been shattered worse.
How could something feel so right, flow so well, and be such a total mistake? We may wonder. How can I ever trust my selection process again, when it showed itself to be so faulty?
We may never have the answers. I believe I needed to make certain "mistakes" to learn critical lessons I'm not certain I would have otherwise learned. We cannot let our past interfere with our ability to trust ourselves. We cannot afford to function with fear.
If we are always making the wrong decision in business or in love, we may need to learn why we insist on defeating ourselves.
But most of us do improve. We learn. We grow from our mistakes. Slowly, in increments, our relationships improve. Our business choices improve. Our decisions about how to handle situations with friends or children improve. We benefit from our mistakes. We benefit from our past. And if we have made mistakes, we needed to make them in order to learn along the way.
Action for the Day: Today, I will let go of my fears about trusting myself because I have made mistakes in the past. I understand that these fears only serve to impair my judgment today. I will give my past, even my mistakes, validity by accepting and being grateful for it all. I will strive to see what I've gained from my mistakes. I will try to look at all my good decisions too. I will keep a watchful eye for improvement, for overall progress, in my life.
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
The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear—primarily fear
that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something
we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of
continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless
we could find a means of reducing these demands.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 76
Thought to Ponder
All I have feared to lose I have gained and all I feared to gain I have lost.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Forgetting Everything's All Right
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Learn from your results, especially the ones you didn’t intend to have. There is no such thing as failure when you try. There are only results. If the results are not to your liking, you’ve learned what not to do.
Learn from others. The experiences of other people can teach you much about your own life. And, you also learn by teaching others.
Learn from going places you’ve never gone, meeting people you’ve never known, living new experiences, reading new ideas. Learn from taking on challenges, and pushing yourself beyond your boundaries. Learn by changing your perspective, by considering others’ opinions. Learn from beauty, from love, from caring.
Learn at every opportunity. What you learn is always yours. Learn more and become more.
Learn from your results, especially the ones you didn’t intend to have. There is no such thing as failure when you try. There are only results. If the results are not to your liking, you’ve learned what not to do.
Learn from others. The experiences of other people can teach you much about your own life. And, you also learn by teaching others.
Learn from going places you’ve never gone, meeting people you’ve never known, living new experiences, reading new ideas. Learn from taking on challenges, and pushing yourself beyond your boundaries. Learn by changing your perspective, by considering others’ opinions. Learn from beauty, from love, from caring.
Learn at every opportunity. What you learn is always yours. Learn more and become more.
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