Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Today's Gift
Positive Energy
Its so easy to look around and notice what's wrong.
It takes practice to see what's right.
Many of us have lived around negativity for years. We've become skilled at labeling what's wrong with other people, our life, our work, our day, our relationships, our conduct, our recovery, and ourselves.
We want to be realistic, and our goal is to identify and accept reality. However, this is often not our intent when we practice negativity. The purpose of negativity is usually annihilation.
Negative thinking empowers the problem. It takes us out of harmony. Negative energy sabotages and destroys. It has a powerful life of its own.
So does positive energy. Each day, we can ask what's right, what's good - about other people, our life, our work, our day, our relationships, ourselves, our conduct, our recovery.
Positive energy heals, conducts love, and transforms. Choose positive energy.
A Basic Solution
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional
natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be
of real help to other people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more
important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 52
Thought to Ponder
If I always do what I've always done, I'll always get what I've always gotten.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Altered Attitudes
Thankful to live
Where is the yesterday that worried us so? —Joan Walsh Anglund
In the fairy tale The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree, the oak tree felt sorry for the dayfly. The dayfly only lives for one day, and the tree was already 365 years old. But the dayfly was so enjoying his one-day that the tree's sympathy puzzled him. The dayfly said to the tree, "You may have thousands of my days, but I have thousands of moments to be pleased and happy in."
And so the dayfly continued to dance in the sun and smell the clover and honeysuckle. His day ended as happily as he spent it, and he settled down on a blade of grass.
If all of us could approach our day the way the dayfly does, as though this were our only day, we would spend less time worrying about yesterday and tomorrow.
How can I show my gratitude for the gift of this day?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
Its so easy to look around and notice what's wrong.
It takes practice to see what's right.
Many of us have lived around negativity for years. We've become skilled at labeling what's wrong with other people, our life, our work, our day, our relationships, our conduct, our recovery, and ourselves.
We want to be realistic, and our goal is to identify and accept reality. However, this is often not our intent when we practice negativity. The purpose of negativity is usually annihilation.
Negative thinking empowers the problem. It takes us out of harmony. Negative energy sabotages and destroys. It has a powerful life of its own.
So does positive energy. Each day, we can ask what's right, what's good - about other people, our life, our work, our day, our relationships, ourselves, our conduct, our recovery.
Positive energy heals, conducts love, and transforms. Choose positive energy.
Action for the Day: Today, I will ask my Higher Power to help me let go of negativity. To transform my beliefs and thinking, at the core, from negative to positive. Put me in harmony with the good.
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
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional
natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be
of real help to other people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more
important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 52
Thought to Ponder
If I always do what I've always done, I'll always get what I've always gotten.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Altered Attitudes
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Teach yourself to love the effort. Train yourself to delight in the challenge.
Asking will get you a few things. Action will get you much more.
Discipline yourself to keep on going when the past results have let you down. Remind yourself how much better life is when you’re fully engaged in being of use.
Caution yourself against cutting too many corners. Enjoy yourself as you work to do a good job with whatever must be done.
Seek the satisfaction of knowing you’re making a difference. Experience the sense of fulfillment that grows with every step you take along the way.
Live each day as an opportunity to give the best you have. And live the kind of life you can truly be thankful to live.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Teach yourself to love the effort. Train yourself to delight in the challenge.
Asking will get you a few things. Action will get you much more.
Discipline yourself to keep on going when the past results have let you down. Remind yourself how much better life is when you’re fully engaged in being of use.
Caution yourself against cutting too many corners. Enjoy yourself as you work to do a good job with whatever must be done.
Seek the satisfaction of knowing you’re making a difference. Experience the sense of fulfillment that grows with every step you take along the way.
Live each day as an opportunity to give the best you have. And live the kind of life you can truly be thankful to live.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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