The Work-In: Daily Motivation 4-1-2021

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Today's Gift 

Never apologize for trusting your intuition – your brain can play tricks, your heart can blind, but your gut is always right. -Anonymous

Intuition enhances the knowledge we have gained and the expertise we have developed. Described by Buckminster Fuller—a highly innovative and creative architect, author, and visionary—as “cosmic fishing,” this natural faculty of mind has great survival value. We might imagine our intuition as a divining rod that helps locate underground streams, so we know where to dig. Or we might visualize it as a simple lifting of the veil, a flash of lightning, or dipping our finger to touch the cosmic ocean of information.

Intuition allows us to tune into the voices of unseen inner guides or whispers heard in the middle of the night, despite the normal bubbling of thoughts in the jumble of our mind. Just like we are learning to be more fluent with our feelings, intuition asks us to recognize and decipher our body’s vivid messages—verbal, visual, or kinesthetic (body-felt awareness). Then we will appreciate that those everyday hunches, which seem to descend like an offering from outside, are really a direct line to our connection with all that is. We flash on what normally might be missed in the daily hustle and bustle of our lives to gain insight on what could be.

I welcome the magic of intuitive knowledge in things both large and small.

From the book Cornerstones, Daily Meditations for the Journey into Manhood and Recovery ©

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

We all carry it within us; supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed. But it is hidden deep, which is what makes life a problem. --Huston Smith

How does a one lose touch with their strength, their wisdom, their joy? Perhaps it is in the nature of humanity. Our most profound qualities are hidden deep. They never go away, but we cannot always find them. There may be nothing wrong with ourselves as a person when we lose touch. It doesn't have to mean that we are "bad people" for getting depressed or for feeling inadequate. Who doesn't have that problem? It is the nature of life that we sometimes feel this way. The Universe helps us unearth the resources hidden within us.

When we cannot find those reassuring feelings of strength and wisdom and joy, we may think they are gone forever. We even doubt we ever had them or could have them again. But they are still there. They cannot be destroyed. And when we regain contact we know they have been with us all along.

Action for the Day: I will have faith that the innermost places in me can never be destroyed.

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

Humility and Grace
The whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility. It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our
other shortcomings just as we did when we admitted that we were powerless
over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity. If that degree of humility could enable us to find the grace
by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope
of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 76

Thought to Ponder
The will of my Higher Power will never take me where the grace of my Higher Power will not protect me.

AA-related 'Alconym'
G R O W T H = God Reveals Other Ways To Heal.

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

Intuition

by Ralph Marston

Your perception probably goes much deeper than you realize. Have you ever had the experience of “knowing” in precise detail that something was going to happen, and then sure enough it happened exactly as you saw it in advance? Or have you ever suddenly thought about someone whom you haven’t seen in a while, and a few minutes later they call you?

Though they may seem strange or supernatural, such perceptions are not really so mystical. They are simply a deeper level of perception. When you think about it, there are many things you can accurately see in advance. For example, when you plant seeds in your garden you know in advance that you’ll soon have flowers there. Intuition merely integrates your substantial knowledge and experience of cause and effect, and supplies you with perceptions that are beyond the obvious.

We often discount intuition, failing to heed it or encourage it, out of a mistaken belief that we couldn’t logically know such things as it tells us. Yet intuition can be just as natural, reasonable, and valid as the more direct kinds of perceptions. And it can be very useful.

Pay attention to your intuition. It will help you to see beyond the superficial. Respect what it has to show you and you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the world around you.

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