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Post by Lin on Feb 3, 2014 7:23:58 GMT -5
There have been so many times I felt so alone in my frustration, my anger, my confusion, etc that I really thought I had nowhere to turn. But in recovery I have learned, I can always turn to my Higher Power. It's amazing how much better it can make me feel to know I always have that option. I can just talk to Him...I can recite formal prayers such as the Serenity Prayer or prayers from my faith...Or I can just find a way to spiritually connect. Reading a spiritual poem and reflecting on it, walking in nature, working in the garden, playing with babies or pets...all are ways I can find peace and comfort a know it's going to be OK. Sometimes the only prayer I need is GOD HELP ME.
If I am having lots of mixed up feelings and confusion and can't even pinpoint a topic to read in my books, I often read all of the pages on Higher Power. For me that seems to calm my thoughts and my mind.
I can always remember..there is "nothing going to happen to me today that You and I together can't handle."
How do you turn to your higher power?
LIN
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Post by justoneme on Mar 18, 2014 13:59:43 GMT -5
I'm going to go to a meeting tonight.. at least I hope. I really need to buy the Hope For Today book. I haven't been feeling well. and I think this book will help me. I use to have one but I threw it away. Actually I think I had 2 of them
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Post by BW on Mar 31, 2014 12:55:36 GMT -5
How do you turn to your higher power?[/quote] I don't turn...I kneel
Seriously tho...Having gone to spiritual mentors to learn how to pray and meditate I learned to live gratefully and prayerfully. Each breath can be a prayer.. even my steering wheel can be a prayer wheel. I was gifted to have gone to a women's retreat where the facilitator taught us to do meditative prayer walks. Each step was a prayer. This was very difficult for me at first to slow my racing mind as well as my gait and step...but once I did that it was so totally awesome and rejuvenating for my spirit and my emotions were so much more calm and serene. The only difficulty i have now it attempting to describe in words the effect and feelings.
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Post by majestyjo on Oct 16, 2014 17:16:51 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing this Lin, it reminds me of when I was quitting smoking. I was talking to my spiritual adviser, and told him that I had been talking to someone who had told me that they would still love me even if I put on 20-30 lbs. if I quit smoking. I said, "That may be so, but I wouldn't love myself." I told him, I had no choice, "I marched across the room, took out the pack of cigarettes I had in the china cabinet drawer and took out a cigarette and even though it tasted terrible, I smoked it." He said, "You did have another choice." With just a wee bit of chagrin, I said, "Oh yeah, "I could have turned have turned it over." I had quit smoking for a week. I had naturally assumed that I would use food to substitute for the cigarettes instead of using the spiritual program that we have been given.
In the long run, I went to NA, because we had no Nicotine Anonymous, and lost 3 lbs. instead of gaining weight. I later gained weight off and on over the years, but generally because of medication the doctor put me on, not because I didn't have a cigarette to pick up. The cigarette was the biggest stuffer of all the substances that I used, in fact, in today, I can still want to reach for one, but it would kill me faster than any other substance. So just for today, I choose not to use.
Thanks for letting me share.
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