Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Today's Gift
My singing is very therapeutic. For three hours I have no troubles--I know how it's all going to come out. —Beverly Sills
Have we each found an activity that takes us outside of ourselves? An activity that gives us a place to focus our attention? Being self-centered and focused on ourselves accompanies the illness we're struggling to recover from. The decision to quit preoccupying on ourselves, our own struggles with life, is not easy to maintain. But when we have an activity that excites us, on which we periodically concentrate our attention, we are strengthened. And the more we get outside of ourselves, the more aware we become that "all is well."
It seems our struggles are intensified these days. So often we face difficult situations at work and with social media, alone. The preoccupation with our problems exaggerates them. And the vicious cycle entraps us. However, we don't have to stay trapped. We can pursue a hobby. We can take a class, join a health club. We can dare to follow whatever our desire - to try something new. We need to experience freedom from the inner turmoil in order to know that we deserve even more freedom.
Emotional health is just around the corner. I will turn my attention to the world outside myself.
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
Open your mind and your heart to be still. --Shawn Phillips
In this time of international conflict and mistrust it is easy to despair. At times we may even feel hopeless as we hear about wars and weapons. But there is hope! Change can grow from within each of us.
The world is like a tree--if the tree is diseased and the leaves brown and brittle, the gardener does not treat the branches, but tends to the roots. Our world is made up of nations, in which there are states containing communities of neighborhoods where individual people live. We are the roots of our world tree. As attitudes change; as we accept and love ourselves honestly and learn, in turn, to accept and love others regardless of our differences, slowly, the branches that extend from us and cover the world will grow strong. The peace we can make within ourselves can be reflected everywhere.
Action for the Day: I will find the peace within myself today.
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
Facts
Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman,
and child, is the fundamental idea of Goodness and a Higher Power. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations
of that power in human lives, are facts as old as humans themselves.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, "We Agnostics," p. 55
Thought to Ponder
Take a walk with your Higher Power. They will meet you at the Steps.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I L L I N G = When I Live Life, I Need Goodness
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Peaceful power
by Ralph Marston
Your world cannot be at peace until you yourself are at peace. Calm your worries and fears. Let go of your anger and resentment. Look at each difficulty as an opportunity to strengthen your ability to remain peaceful.
When your mind and your spirit are at peace, your thoughts and actions are free to be strong, focused and effective. You cannot force others to be truly peaceful. You cannot shame them into it. Yet by your example you can draw them into the power of your own peacefulness.
Peace will not come to you until there is peace that comes from you. Living in peace does not mean giving in or giving up. Rather, it means having the confidence to let go of your anxieties and insecurities, so you can focus on your positive possibilities.
Decide to live this moment, this day, this life in peace. And though the world around you may swirl with turmoil, you’ll be moving positively forward with others sure to follow.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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