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Post by BW on Apr 30, 2011 14:29:34 GMT -5
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When you look ahead, you may get discouraged. What will you do without your drug of choice and all the rituals that accompany its use? Yet, living in tomorrow is not only non-productive, you can't do it except in your head. Live in your body; live in today. What must you do in this 24 hours to handle matters and take care of your fragile emotions?
Creator of all that is, reveal to me what is necessary for this 24 hours. Help me focus on now, what is real, and not a future that only exists in my head.
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Post by BW on May 1, 2011 14:49:01 GMT -5
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The question is not if you will recover, but how.
Although giving up drugs and alcohol shatters my illusions about who I was, I use the duration to shape myself into a better being through the 12 Steps.
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Post by BW on May 3, 2011 4:48:40 GMT -5
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'For a time we are living inside a scream where there seems to be no exit, only echoes. The small cares that seemed so important yesterday seem like nothing, and our daily concerns become petty and irrelevant. When we finally reclaim ourselves, as we ultimately do, we are changed.'-- Kent Nerburn, Simple Truths
I am swept into a reality where I see what is truly important, my recovery, and I carry that knowledge back to my daily life.
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Post by caressa on May 3, 2011 8:21:04 GMT -5
Have found that those screams are best let out (in healthy ways) instead of keeping them internalized. They come in many forms. When vocalized and acknowledged, they can be released. When I do that, I can see what is in front of me to be done that I could see before because I was caught up my stuff that I had allowed to overwhelm me. So many times, when I am in it, I can't see it. That is when it is good to talk to my sponsor or come on line and start sharing and it generally comes out and I can put some order to my thoughts.
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Post by caressa on May 5, 2011 13:34:16 GMT -5
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You will be receiving many gifts from people in the programs: gifts of help, time, energy, possibly money, talents, and knowledge. You will never be able to pay them all back. You are not obligated to pay them back. You are obligated to be of service to others and give to them what is being so freely given to you today.
I appreciate the generosity of others and my only obligation comes in the future, to offer what gifts I can to someone else in recovery.
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Post by caressa on May 5, 2011 13:34:49 GMT -5
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There will be many times when nothing anyone does (even sponsor, counselor and yourself), seems right. But these 'nothing is ever right' times will pass like a cloud overhead. Do not make decisions until the cloud passes, so that you make them in the full light of your good senses.
Let me understand that the 'nothing is going right' times will soon drift away like clouds overhead.
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Post by caressa on May 5, 2011 13:35:26 GMT -5
Hope your computer is going right soon.
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Post by caressa on May 6, 2011 16:38:35 GMT -5
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Regaining the natural habit of sleeping takes time. If you are tired right now from lack of sleep, it is normal. As long as you don't 'take' anything for it, you will be OK. Rest, pray, and know that it won't always be so difficult.
Give me a quiet spirit to meet the times when I don't have all the sleep I think I need.
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Post by caressa on May 7, 2011 15:44:36 GMT -5
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Withdrawal is a condition that can last many months and produces chaos: chaotic emotions, chaotic thoughts, chaotic family situations, chaotic desires. But we take one step at a time, one hour at a time and the chaos eventually calms.
I know everything changes and the chaos will pass in these changes as long as I don't use mind-affecting chemicals.
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Post by caressa on May 8, 2011 16:09:15 GMT -5
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We often feel tremendous remorse for transgressions of the past. Today, at this hour, we can stay clean, stay sober, stay drug free. This is the beginning. Later in our program, we will work steps to neutralize our transgressions. But at this hour, we must heal our bodies first.
God, as I understand You, keep me clean and sober, now.
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Post by caressa on May 9, 2011 15:15:04 GMT -5
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This is a 'We' program, not a 'Me' program. We do this together. Look at our steps. They all say 'We admitted' or 'We came to believe.' Doing it together makes us stronger and less likely to fool ourselves with dysfunctional ways of thinking.
Let me know that I am no longer alone and need never be alone again.
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Post by caressa on May 10, 2011 16:48:33 GMT -5
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Sometimes you might feel spiritually dead or emotionally empty. No matter how dead or empty you sometimes feel, believe us when we say if you keep coming back, you will feel alive and full once again!
Whether or not I believe in a Higher Power, I will practice believing by praying anyway--the worst it can do is teach me discipline, the best it can do is work!
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Post by caressa on May 11, 2011 17:53:12 GMT -5
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There is a certain universality to the truths taught in our 12 step programs. They are nothing new. These principles are derived from eons of experience and spirituality. What is new is our personal understanding that living these principles gives us a reprieve from our addiction.
Thank you God, as I understand You, for my daily reprieve from addiction based on my sincere attempt to practice these principles.
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Post by BW on May 12, 2011 13:32:29 GMT -5
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You will probably misjudge and misunderstand many people and their motives for a time. The muddled thinking of early recovery has a way of making us take things the wrong way. Remember your vulnerability and that withdrawal distorts thinking. Don't be hard on yourself or those around you. Do nothing permanent for eight months to a year. This way your regrets will be minimized.
God, as I understand You, hold my tongue from uttering words and restrain my steps from moving in directions that I may one day regret.
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Post by BW on May 13, 2011 11:01:12 GMT -5
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Heavy were the storms and fierce the tides that brought us to this point in recovery. Storms also lie ahead, but after each storm, follows the dawn of calm. The old washes away and the time is right for a clean life.
May I surrender to the Light, God as I understand You, and learn to protect myself during storms.
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Post by BW on May 14, 2011 12:52:33 GMT -5
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We may be hearing a lot about acceptance right now, if not, we soon will. Acceptance does not mean we have to 'put up with all this ****.' Acceptance means facing of reality. 'This is how it is and I will do the best I can.'
Help me take an objective view of my current situation and not be resigned to some 'fate.' I will be an active part of this process of recovery.
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Post by BW on May 15, 2011 14:12:06 GMT -5
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The best decision you have ever made is to opt for the health that sobriety and clean time will give you. If the decision was someone else's then your decision to accept it was the best one ever made. You will gain a new perspective on life and for this you need to thank yourself.
As I thank myself, I also thank any others, including a Higher Power, as I understand Him / Her, for giving me another hour without mind-affecting chemicals.
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Post by BW on May 16, 2011 16:32:03 GMT -5
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By now, most of us start asking 'Am I really an addict? Or is this just a bad mistake?' The pain of separation is setting in. 'How can I cope without drugs? Will I become stupid, boring and dull?' We must realize that these thoughts are our addictions talking to us, luring us.
Higher Power, help me shut my ears to my addictions.
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Post by BW on May 17, 2011 12:47:17 GMT -5
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We are told we have free will. Yet as that fix, pill, drink, smoke, or snort beckons, pleads for us to partake, we often feel there is no free will in addiction. When that 'force' pleads with us, we must pray for God's will, not ours, and we must make a contact with a clean and sober person in recovery.
Please God, as I understand You, help me find a person in the fellowship to talk to, now.
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Post by caressa on May 18, 2011 14:17:13 GMT -5
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Often times we have fears that someone from the past might find us, evil is after us, or that our friends really hate us. At these times we must turn to our Higher Power, surrender our fears and our fate. In that surrender, we cease struggling, cease fear.
The Divine helps me ask for help when I need it.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.