Thursday, May 16, 2019

The Work-In: Daily Motivation 5-16-2019

Thursday, May 16, 2019
Today's Gift

The journey isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about loving who you are right now. ~ Suzanne Heyn

Self Love

"I woke up this morning and I had a hard time for a while," said one person. "Then I realized it was because I wasn't liking myself very much." People often say: I just don't like myself. When will I start liking myself?

The answer is: start now. We can learn to be gentle, loving, and nurturing with ourselves. Of all the recovery behaviors we're striving to attain, loving ourselves may be the most difficult, and the most important. If we are habitually harsh and critical toward ourselves, learning to be gentle with ourselves may require dedicated effort.

But what a valuable venture!

By not liking ourselves, we may be perpetuating the discounting, neglect, or abuse we received in childhood from the important people in our life. We didn't like what happened then, but find ourselves copying those who mistreated us by treating ourselves poorly.

We can stop the pattern. We can begin giving ourselves the loving, respectful treatment we deserve.

Instead of criticizing ourselves, we can tell ourselves we performed well enough.

We can wake up in the morning and tell ourselves we deserve a good day.

We can make a commitment to take good care of ourselves throughout the day.

We can recognize that were deserving of love. We can do loving things for ourselves.

We can love other people and let them love us.

People, who truly love themselves do not become destructively self-centered. They do not abuse others. They do not stop growing and changing. People who love themselves well, learn to love others well too. They continually grow into healthier people, learning that their love was appropriately placed.

Today, I will love myself. If I get caught in the old pattern of not liking myself, I will find a way to get out.

From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©

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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

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ~Gerald Brenan

As teenagers most of us were very self-conscious and concerned about how we looked to others. That was a normal stage in development. But, for many of us, our addictions began at that age, or the addictions of others affected us. Our emotional development stopped. We didn't develop an inner reference point, a relationship with our Higher Power that influenced us and helped us weigh other people's opinions.

In recovery, we resumed our emotional and spiritual development where it had stopped. It is liberating to know that how we feel about something is important. We can follow our interests and pursue our commitments. We need not be ruled by others' feelings. With our regular pattern of taking our inventory, praying, and meditating, we are developing a relationship with ourselves which builds character and maturity.

Action for the Day: Today,
I will give importance to how I feel, what I believe, and what is interesting to me.


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

Meditation
Meditation is something which can always be further developed.
It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such
instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an
individual adventure, something which each one of us works out
in his own way. But its object is always the same: to improve our
conscious contact with our Higher Power, with Their grace, wisdom, and love.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 101

Thought to Ponder
Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer.

AA-related 'Alconym'
K I S S = K
eeping It Simple, Spiritually


From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html

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Daily Motivation

Excerpt of The Daily Motivator

Appreciate your life
by Ralph Marston

Right now you have life, awareness, intelligence, time and space in which to act. You have the ability to connect with others, opportunities to observe, to learn, to care, to make a difference.

You can think and plan, act and create. You can sense and feel and make good, smart choices.

All these powerful resources and capabilities are so familiar, it’s easy to take them for granted. You’ll benefit, however, from regularly reminding yourself of them, and of all the good things you have.

When you consciously appreciate what you have, you naturally make better use of it all. Gratitude strengthens your connection to the abundance in your world.

There are very real advantages to being who you are, to having what you have. Remind yourself of those advantages, and open yourself to new possibilities.

Truly appreciate your life, along with everything it encompasses. And do good, valuable, fulfilling things with it all.

From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/

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