Friday, January 3, 2020
Today's Gift
Self-care is how you take your power back. – Lalah Delia
Nurturing Self Care
...there isn't a guidebook for setting boundaries. Each of us has our own guide inside ourselves. If we continue to work at it, our boundaries will develop. They will get healthy and sensitive. Our selves will tell us what we need to know, and we'll love ourselves enough to listen.
What do we need to do to take care of ourselves?
Listen to that voice inside. What makes you angry? What have you had enough of? What don't you trust? What doesn't feel right? What can't you stand? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you want? Need? What don't you want and need? What do you like? What would feel good?
In life, we learn that self care leads us on the path to the Universe's will and plan for our life. Self-care never leads away from our highest good; it leads toward it.
Learn to nurture that voice inside. We can trust ourselves. We can take care of ourselves. We are wiser than we think. Our guide is within, ever present. Listen to, trust, and nurture that guide.
Today, I will affirm that I am a gift to the Universe and myself. I will remember that nurturing self care delivers that gift in its highest form.
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
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. —Dorothy Bryant
Sometimes we feel buried in sand, blocked, clogged, unable to move. Then we must remember that we are not alone. Help is at hand, if only we will ask for it. If we invoke our higher power, our source of spiritual strength can help us to believe that there is gold somewhere in all this sand, and that the sand itself is useful.
No one and no thing is good all the time. Let us remember that if we expect nothing but gold, we are distorting life, getting in our own way. We don't want to falsify the texture of our lives; the homespun quality helps us to appreciate the gold when it appears.
Action for the Day: I will find some gold among the sand, today.
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
Simple and Personal
In spite of the great increase in the size and the span of
this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal.
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when
one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing
experience, strength, and hope.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreword to the Third Edition) p. xxii
Thought to Ponder
Times change, alcoholism doesn't.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O P E = Hold On, Possibilities Exist
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
by Ralph Marston
Intention transforms empty time into a fulfilling life. Supply yourself with intention, and you’ll provide your world with achievement.
You are highly capable, yet mere capability doesn’t put food on the table. Intention activates your capability, with results that seem miraculous.
Know with clarity what you are choosing to do. Harness all your energy, focus it, apply it, with intention.
Shield yourself from meaningless distractions, with intention. Put your time, your attention, your skills to worthwhile use, with intention.
Set an ambitious intention, and discover how very much you can accomplish. Live the day with intention, and give yourself cause to be thankful for the way you’ve made use of your time.
Live with the power of intention. Decide what you’re going to do, and let that intention continue transforming time into achievement.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Intention transforms empty time into a fulfilling life. Supply yourself with intention, and you’ll provide your world with achievement.
You are highly capable, yet mere capability doesn’t put food on the table. Intention activates your capability, with results that seem miraculous.
Know with clarity what you are choosing to do. Harness all your energy, focus it, apply it, with intention.
Shield yourself from meaningless distractions, with intention. Put your time, your attention, your skills to worthwhile use, with intention.
Set an ambitious intention, and discover how very much you can accomplish. Live the day with intention, and give yourself cause to be thankful for the way you’ve made use of your time.
Live with the power of intention. Decide what you’re going to do, and let that intention continue transforming time into achievement.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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