Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Today's Gift
Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” --Louise L. Hay
Letting Go of Self-Criticism
Look how far we've come!
It's good to focus on the task ahead, on what remains to be done. It's important to stop and feel pleased about what we've accomplished too.
Yes, it may seem that the change has been slow. At times, change is grueling. Yes, we've taken steps backward. But we're right where we're supposed to be. We're right where we need to be.
And we have come so far.
Sometimes by leaps, sometimes with tiny steps, sometimes kicking and screaming all the while, sometimes with sleeves rolled up and white knuckles, we've learned. Grown. Changed.
Look how far we've come.
Today, I will appreciate my progress. I will let myself feel good about what has been accomplished.
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
Change occurs when one becomes what they are, not when they try to become what they are not. --Ruth P. Freedman
Learning self-acceptance, and then loving the selves we are, present perhaps our two biggest hurdles to the attainment of emotional and spiritual health. Fortunately, they are not insurmountable hurdles. The program offers ready assistance.
People everywhere are making great strides in self-love and self-acceptance. We are learning self-love. And we are changing. The support we can give others, and the support we receive, multiplies many times the healthy energy created--healthy energy that touches us all.
Emotional and spiritual health are gifts promised by the program, when we work it. We must move beyond our perfectionism and relish our humanness. And the Steps are the way. We must learn humility and develop faith, and the Steps are the way. Learning to love all our parts, the qualities we like and the traits that discouragingly hang on, offers a new freedom. A freedom that invites change. A freedom that safeguards the emotional and spiritual well-being that we strive for.
Action for the Day: Confidence will come with my healthy self-acceptance.
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
Thoughtful Reflection
Calm, thoughtful reflection upon personal relations can deepen our
insight. We can go far beyond those things which were superficially
wrong with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which
sometimes were responsible for the whole pattern of our lives.
Thoroughness, we have found, will pay—and pay handsomely.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eight) p. 80
Thought to Ponder
I need to uncover in order to recover.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Face Everything And Recover
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Positive spirit
by Ralph Marston
Don’t waste your energy on anger. Focus that energy into effective action.
Don’t weigh yourself down with resentment. Activate your enthusiasm with meaningful work.
The way you feel doesn’t have to compromise your activities. Instead, make it so that your actions improve and uplift the way you feel.
Imagine how your breathing, posture, and actions would be if you felt better than you’ve ever felt. Then mimic all you’ve imagined, and see how great you feel.
You never have to be held hostage by negativity. You can liberate your positive spirit with positive action.
What you do makes all the difference in how you feel. Feel good now by doing good, useful, energetic things now.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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