Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Today's Gift
There is a positive aspect to boundary setting. We learn to listen to ourselves and identify what hurt us and what we don't like. But we also learn to identify what feels good.
When we are willing to take some risks and begin actively doing so, we will enhance the quality of our life.
What do we like? What feels good? What brings us pleasure? Whose company do we enjoy? What helps us to feel good in the morning? What's a real treat in our life? What are the small, daily activities that make us feel nurtured and cared for?
What appeals to our emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical self? What actually feels good to us?
We have deprived ourselves too long. There is no need to do that anymore, no need. If it feels good, and the consequences are self-loving and not self-defeating, do it!
Today, I will do for myself those little things that make life more pleasurable. I will not deny myself healthy treats.
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 Day
Keep It Simple
What does it mean to be alive? Does it mean merely breathing, eating, and moving around, or is there more to it? Being alive can mean different things to different people. To some, it's sewing a baby quilt for a new life about to be born. To others, it's singing, or walking, or running. Still others find it in the exhilaration of skiing, or the tropical splendor they find when scuba diving.
Each of us has our own favorite activity that lets us feel our creativity and vitality, that lets us feel a part of the larger world. Two gifts these activities leave us with are joy and energy. Joy is one of the most creative forces we can call on, and energy gives us the power to do it well.
Action for the Day: I will do a creative activity that gives my life 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
They has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic
they pass into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking
is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in
practically every case long before it is suspected. The fact is that most
alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) pp. 23 - 24
Thought to Ponder
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.
AA-related 'Alconym'
D E A D = Drinking Ends All Dreams
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Take good care of yourself***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
It’s wonderful that you’re so good to others. Always remember to be just as good to yourself as well.
Compromising your own well being does not benefit anyone else. It is when you are satisfied with yourself, confident in yourself, that you can benefit those around you.
When you wish to give, you first must have something of value to offer. If you seek to be of service to anyone else you must take good care of yourself.
Get your work done, indulge some small but important desires. Then you’re able to give your full attention and genuine care to those you love, and to many others.
Yes, it is a challenge to take care of yourself and to balance that with your care for others. It is not a challenge to be ignored or avoided.
If you want your life to matter to others it must matter to you. Take good care of yourself, and give life the best you have to offer.
It’s wonderful that you’re so good to others. Always remember to be just as good to yourself as well.
Compromising your own well being does not benefit anyone else. It is when you are satisfied with yourself, confident in yourself, that you can benefit those around you.
When you wish to give, you first must have something of value to offer. If you seek to be of service to anyone else you must take good care of yourself.
Get your work done, indulge some small but important desires. Then you’re able to give your full attention and genuine care to those you love, and to many others.
Yes, it is a challenge to take care of yourself and to balance that with your care for others. It is not a challenge to be ignored or avoided.
If you want your life to matter to others it must matter to you. Take good care of yourself, and give life the best you have to offer.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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