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Post by BW on Sept 1, 2011 14:04:22 GMT -5
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Because our body chemistry is so damaged by our disease of addiction, it is important to pay attention to our body's nourishment needs. Are you eating regular balanced meals? It's often more important then we realize and we should never allow ourselves to be hungry or nutrient starved.
Give me the foresight to feed my body the nourishment that my disease robbed it of in the past.
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Post by BW on Sept 1, 2011 14:10:11 GMT -5
I've noticed that my neighbor has losat a lot of weight. Just today i saw her outside with her dog. I had a feeling something was wrong. I went out and greeted her and she was so confused and out of sorts. I asked her permission to call her daughter. then I got her some juice and protein. Almost immediately the confusion began to clear.
Her son is a special needs man. She takes such excellant care of him yet forgets her own needs. I have found that same thing to be true of my own expereince on this journey of recovery. I can hide behind service and giving to others. However there is a qualifier mentioned in the Big book of alcoholics Anonymous.. It tells us we have to have it iin order to give it away. That also means I have to take care of myself in order to be there for others.
That includes physical needs as well as spiritual or emotional.
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Post by BW on Sept 2, 2011 8:36:15 GMT -5
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At this time many people will get on our nerves. This is normal during early recovery. How we see others is often a mirror of our feelings--thus we are not so much upset by the actions of others as we are upset with ourselves.
Help me see that my feelings are often displaced and projected into anothers behavior when it may really come from within me.
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Post by BW on Sept 4, 2011 12:42:22 GMT -5
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We mustn't make a decision about staying sober with insufficient data. To collect data on what staying sober is like, we have to stay that way 12 months or more. Therefore, we should not make a final decision about this new life until we have a year of clean time.
May I know that experience and contact with sober people is the only way to collect data on sobriety.
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Post by BW on Sept 5, 2011 14:26:44 GMT -5
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'Let Go and Let Go' is a simple phrase that helps us realize that we are not in charge of the world. Our need to control and manage all things in our life will soon be replaced as we allow our Spiritual Source to operate.
Let this phrase gently lead me to practice Step three each time I hear it in a meeting or see it written on the walls of our meetings
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Post by BW on Sept 6, 2011 13:19:53 GMT -5
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Your Divine Source will always answer your prayers. Sometimes the answer is 'no' but we say, 'My Creator didn't give me what I wanted so my Creator doesn't listen to me.''The Divine listens, maybe you don't.
As I learn more about Divine will, help me not to interpret internal conflict as a God who doesn't care.
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Post by BW on Sept 7, 2011 10:44:23 GMT -5
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Whether serious and conservative or eager and flighty, newcomers often feel no necessity for embracing recovery. REMEMBER, millions have gone before you. You don't have to embrace the 12 steps but embrace something that works for recovery.
I embrace a program of recovery, not my self will, but a program I trust with clean and people that I can see!
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Post by BW on Sept 8, 2011 10:35:33 GMT -5
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We can't always choose where or what we are in life, but we can choose how to view it. Adversity can be seen as an opportunity to work our spiritual program of life. And always when one door is closed to us, another one opens.
Give me the courage to face every adversity with the spiritual tools I am given in this program.
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Post by BW on Sept 9, 2011 16:34:37 GMT -5
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Do you have a phone list of clean and sober people in the program? If yes, call one person right now and share a clean and sober morning greeting. If not, take this book and begin a sober list in the back. Collect names and numbers at the meeting you go to today.
People say, 'Call me anytime.' Let me know that as long as I am clean and sober, they mean it!
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Post by BW on Sept 10, 2011 11:03:26 GMT -5
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Another part of learning good hourly habits is to take time for physical exercise. This is part of the balance of our new lives. We need activity for the well-being of the body and for self-discipline. We can walk, swim, jog, take up sports, aerobics, dance, or even yoga--just as long as we are consistent and somehow active.
Give me the self-discipline to maintain some type of physical activity in my clean and sober life-style.
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Post by BW on Sept 11, 2011 12:58:59 GMT -5
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Many times we go to meetings to listen to what happens to people who don't go to meetings. When they ask for a topic at today's meeting, suggest 'What Happens to People Who Don't go to Meetings.'
One meeting a day can not possibly take as much time as my former bars, parties, connections, and the energy I put into using and drinking, so help me see that any complaints about the 'frequency' is unfounded.
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Post by BW on Sept 12, 2011 11:50:35 GMT -5
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Complete involvement in this new way of life will keep you from falling through the cracks. If you stay in the middle of us, you won't fall off the edge.
As I follow those before me, newcomers will follow behind me and I will always be in the middle of the path of progress.
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Post by BW on Sept 13, 2011 11:58:34 GMT -5
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There is the law of this physical earth which always leads to death and decay. It can be no other way in a material world. There is also the law of Spirit which leads to life and grace. Our addiction obeys the law of this earth plane, our recovery obeys the law of the Spirit.
Please, Divine Source, as I understand You, guide me to the law of Spirit and recovery.
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Post by caressa on Sept 13, 2011 15:54:33 GMT -5
This reminded me of a Jamie Sams quote: "Spiritual law transcends earthly laws."
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Post by BW on Sept 14, 2011 12:22:07 GMT -5
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Letting go of the past and the present is to admit powerlessness. This means that the outcome is not in your hands.
All I can do is the best I can do. I know that the results are in the hands of my Higher Power.
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Post by BW on Sept 15, 2011 11:40:50 GMT -5
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Our disease is NOT the drug, it is a system malfunction in the person. This malfunction is in the brain (neurochemistry), in the mind (irrationality), and in the spirit (immorality). Only by healing all three do we have any hopes of recovering.
May I understand that I am not fighting the chemicals that made me sick, I am fighting the malfunctions that make me want to use them.
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Post by BW on Sept 16, 2011 12:37:12 GMT -5
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'Let Go and Let God' is a simple phrase that helps us realize that we are not in charge of the world. Our need to control and manage all things in our life will soon be replaced as we allow Our Spiritual Source to operate.
Let this phrase gently lead me to practice Step three each time I hear it in a meeting or see it written on the walls of our meetings.
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Post by BW on Sept 17, 2011 9:26:06 GMT -5
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Vengeance sometimes seems the only way to get back at those who've hurt us. But we've found the best vengeance is living well, practicing our principles, and letting our Higher Power take care of the offenders.
May I recognize and internalize that vengeance is an attribute of addiction, not recovery.
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Post by BW on Sept 18, 2011 9:50:28 GMT -5
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Many times we go to meetings to listen to what happens to people who don't go to meetings. When they ask for a topic at today's meeting, suggest 'What Happens to People Who Don't go to Meetings.'
One meeting a day can not possibly take as much time as my former bars, parties, connections, and the energy I put into using and drinking. Help me see that any complaints about the 'frequency' is unfounded.
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Post by BW on Sept 20, 2011 11:27:06 GMT -5
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The professionals in our new life may appraise our situation better than us. They are not romantically linked to our love affair with drugs. Therefore, their evaluation may be more nearly correct.
May I have the ability to listen to those trying to help me; they honestly may be more objective than myself.
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