Monday, April 8, 2019
Today's Gift
Any time you sense you are getting overrun by outside influences and losing your feelings, put your attention inside your body. Relax. . ., let your breath sink low. . ., breathe in your abdomen. . . . --Anne Kent Rush
When we are feeling as though all our energy is scattered throughout our bodies, we need to practice centering, or focusing this energy into one place. Our center may change from day to day, and each of us feels it differently.
When we're walking, we may feel power coming from our hips and spreading through the body, heart, and mind. When we're in a meditative mood, we may feel warm energy at the back of the head. At other times, we might feel a real centering place in the middle of the chest, right where our heart and arms and breathing come together. There is no one way to be at peace. Centering is a way for each of us to find and picture to ourselves our focused energy. When we can do this, we increase our power to bring about those things we want from life, those things we really do deserve.
Action for the Day: I will pay better attention to where I focus my energy on.
Self-pity
No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that
bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in
all directions. I had met my match. I had been overwhelmed.
Alcohol was my master.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 8
Thought to Ponder
Self-pity is followed by isolation is followed by a drink.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P L O M = Poor Little Old Me
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Simple pleasures
Self Care
I don't precisely know what you need to do to take care of yourself. But I know you can figure it out. —Beyond Codependency
Rest when you're tired.
Take a drink of cold water when you're thirsty.
Call a friend when you're lonely.
Ask the Universe to help when you feel overwhelmed.
Many of us have learned how to deprive and neglect ourselves. Many of us have learned to push ourselves hard, when the problem is that were already pushed too hard.
Many of us are afraid the work wont get done if we rest when were tired. The work will get done; it will be done better than work that emerges from tiredness of soul and spirit. Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
They are well timed, efficient, and Divinely led.
Today, I will practice loving self-care.
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
When we are feeling as though all our energy is scattered throughout our bodies, we need to practice centering, or focusing this energy into one place. Our center may change from day to day, and each of us feels it differently.
When we're walking, we may feel power coming from our hips and spreading through the body, heart, and mind. When we're in a meditative mood, we may feel warm energy at the back of the head. At other times, we might feel a real centering place in the middle of the chest, right where our heart and arms and breathing come together. There is no one way to be at peace. Centering is a way for each of us to find and picture to ourselves our focused energy. When we can do this, we increase our power to bring about those things we want from life, those things we really do deserve.
Action for the Day: I will pay better attention to where I focus my energy on.
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
No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that
bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in
all directions. I had met my match. I had been overwhelmed.
Alcohol was my master.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) p. 8
Thought to Ponder
Self-pity is followed by isolation is followed by a drink.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P L O M = Poor Little Old Me
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Simple pleasures
by Ralph Marston
When you place too many conditions on your enjoyment of life, there is no enjoyment. You can end up working so much to get the conditions just right, that there’s no time left to really enjoy yourself.
Let go of the need to have everything just so. Simply and fully enjoy being where you are.
In every moment there is beauty. Rather than striving to make that beauty into what you think it should be, just enjoy it as it is.
Happiness is not something you must prove. Find enjoyment in simply letting it flow.
Instead of working to do happy, be happy. See that the possibilities for joy are far greater than anything you could ever contrive.
There is plenty of joy to be lived in this moment. Let the uniqueness of the moment help you discover new ways of tasting life’s real pleasures.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
When you place too many conditions on your enjoyment of life, there is no enjoyment. You can end up working so much to get the conditions just right, that there’s no time left to really enjoy yourself.
Let go of the need to have everything just so. Simply and fully enjoy being where you are.
In every moment there is beauty. Rather than striving to make that beauty into what you think it should be, just enjoy it as it is.
Happiness is not something you must prove. Find enjoyment in simply letting it flow.
Instead of working to do happy, be happy. See that the possibilities for joy are far greater than anything you could ever contrive.
There is plenty of joy to be lived in this moment. Let the uniqueness of the moment help you discover new ways of tasting life’s real pleasures.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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