Thursday, June 6, 2019
Today's Gift
Words and magic were, in the beginning, one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. —Sigmund Freud
We shape our experiences with the words we use to describe them. Word images create expectations and we naturally move toward them. When a person says, "I can't!" they are commanding their unconscious self to be helpless. When they have a picture in their mind of moving toward their goal, they may say, "It's hard, but I'm going to give it my best effort." If, every time they make a mistake, they mutter berating statements to their self like, "You idiot! You can't do anything right," they are teaching their self to be inadequate.
It's our responsibility in tho ourselves to use respectful, honest, health-giving words. We can no longer use defeating, shaming, or derogatory words. Our language has a hypnotic effect on us and the people around us. So let's look at our resources today and name them. Let's meet our difficulties with our strength, our patience, and the backing of our Higher Power.
Today, I will call forth images and use words to show I respect myself and others.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
Lifting our self-esteem is not a particularly easy task for most of us. It's probable that again and again our confidence wavered before we sought help from the program. It's also probable that our confidence still wanes on occasion. The old fears don't disappear without effort.
But each day we can do some one thing that will help us to feel better about ourselves. All it takes is one small act or decision, each day. The program can give us the strength we need each day to move forward one step.
Action for the Day: Today, I will do one thing I've been putting off. A whole collection of "one days" will lay the groundwork for the person I'm building within.
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, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women
who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main
purpose of this book. For them, we hope these pages will prove so
convincing that no further authentication will be necessary.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreword to First Edition,) p.xiii
Thought to Ponder
When all else fails, the directions are in the Big Book.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Face Everything And Recover
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Your thoughts are what frighten you. Choose to change them, and the fear is gone.
Your thoughts are what cause you to be frustrated, angry, disappointed, impatient and uncomfortable. And your thoughts can also take you far away from all those things.
For your thoughts can transform anger into forgiveness, disappointment into determination, discomfort into inspiration, and fear into love. The choice is always yours.
The world is what it is. Yet your thoughts determine how you situate yourself into the world.
By controlling your thoughts you control the kind of world in which you live. At the times when you realize it, and at the times when you don’t, you are always controlling your thoughts.
Deep inside you is a beautiful, unique person who seeks true joy and fulfillment. Let your thoughts resonate with the genuine person you are, and that joy does surely come.
Your thoughts are what frighten you. Choose to change them, and the fear is gone.
Your thoughts are what cause you to be frustrated, angry, disappointed, impatient and uncomfortable. And your thoughts can also take you far away from all those things.
For your thoughts can transform anger into forgiveness, disappointment into determination, discomfort into inspiration, and fear into love. The choice is always yours.
The world is what it is. Yet your thoughts determine how you situate yourself into the world.
By controlling your thoughts you control the kind of world in which you live. At the times when you realize it, and at the times when you don’t, you are always controlling your thoughts.
Deep inside you is a beautiful, unique person who seeks true joy and fulfillment. Let your thoughts resonate with the genuine person you are, and that joy does surely come.
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