Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Today's Gift
Taking Care of Ourselves Emotionally
What does it mean to take care of myself emotionally? I recognize when I'm feeling angry, and I accept that feeling without shame or blame.
I recognize when I'm feeling hurt, and I accept those feelings without attempting to punish the source of my pain. I recognize and feel fear when that emotion presents itself.
I allow myself to feel happiness, joy, and love when those emotions are available. Taking care of myself means I've made a decision that it's okay to feel.
Taking care of my emotions means I allow myself to stay with the feeling until it's time to release it and go on to the next one.
I recognize that sometimes my feelings can help point me toward reality, but sometimes my feelings are deceptive. They are important, but I do not have to let them control me. I can feel, and think too.
I talk to people about my feelings when that's appropriate and safe.
I reach out for help or guidance if I get stuck in a particular emotion.
I'm open to the lessons my emotions may be trying to teach me. After I feel, accept, and release the feeling, I ask myself what it is I want or need to do to take care of myself.
Taking care of myself emotionally means I value, treasure, explore, and cherish the emotional part of myself.
Today, I will take care of myself emotionally. I will be open to, and accepting of, the emotional part of myself and other people. I will strive for balance by combining emotions with reason, but I will not allow intellect to push the emotional part of myself away.
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
********************************Twenty-Four Hours a DayKeep It Simple
Patience with ourselves may be the first step toward patience with others. In getting to know ourselves, we don't find what we have expected. If we did, we would only be proving what we already knew. Sometimes growth comes in surprising ways. It may be in acceptance and learning to love what is unsettled or unclear within. Some of us men want to rush through our learning and push our growth too fast. Others of us want to have a strong sense of confidence in our relationships with others but always feel vulnerable. Some wonder why their fears suddenly rise without warning. Another longs to know why certain things happened to him in his youth. Our growth is not our invention. When answers come, they are gifts, and we do not control them.
In part, self-acceptance is to say, "Yes, I am a person with this question, this unsettled feeling. Being alive is to be actively engaged in knowing and loving my questions even when I find no answer."
Action for the Day: Higher Power, grant me the peace that comes with loving the unfinished part of 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
They were on thin ice. Again it was the old, insidious insanity—that first drink.
But what about his responsibilities—their family and the people who would die
because they would not know how to get well, ah—yes, those other alcoholics?
There must be many such in this town. They would phone a clergyman.
Their sanity returned and they thanked their Higher Power.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) pp. 154 - 155
Thought to Ponder
We are either working on recovery or we're working on a relapse.
AA-related 'Alconym'
G I F T = Goodness Is Forever There
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Welcome the feelings***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
When you can accept and even welcome your feelings, they lose their power over you. Do you feel lousy today? Instead of making that something to fight against, let it be. Accept that you feel lousy, and suddenly it’s not so bad. That negative feeling begins to fall away from you when you loosen your grip on it.
Your feelings help you to perceive, understand and interact with the world. They are yours to experience, to learn from and to enjoy. Accept them all. Welcome them all. Fighting against them or resenting them does not make them go away. In fact it gives them more power.
Welcome your feelings. Experience them and then let them flow on along. Each one is a positive confirmation that you’re fully alive. Each one can help you to understand yourself. Let them fill your life. Don’t let them dominate it.
Each day you’ll move forward past a whole lot of different feelings. See them as milestones along the way, not there to slow you down, but to keep you moving positively ahead.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
When you can accept and even welcome your feelings, they lose their power over you. Do you feel lousy today? Instead of making that something to fight against, let it be. Accept that you feel lousy, and suddenly it’s not so bad. That negative feeling begins to fall away from you when you loosen your grip on it.
Your feelings help you to perceive, understand and interact with the world. They are yours to experience, to learn from and to enjoy. Accept them all. Welcome them all. Fighting against them or resenting them does not make them go away. In fact it gives them more power.
Welcome your feelings. Experience them and then let them flow on along. Each one is a positive confirmation that you’re fully alive. Each one can help you to understand yourself. Let them fill your life. Don’t let them dominate it.
Each day you’ll move forward past a whole lot of different feelings. See them as milestones along the way, not there to slow you down, but to keep you moving positively ahead.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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