Topic for the week Stay In Today

[caressa]

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

S I T = Stay In Today.

It is much easier to stay in today when I realize that I don't quit forever and ever and that all I have to do is stay sober for 24 hours. My day can start any time and this is especially true, when I have such a disruptive sleep pattern.

During those long hours of no sleep, I have often had to surrender, ask for help and surrender my day. With fibromyalgia, polymyalgia, and osteo it was difficult to find acceptance. Yet when I acknowledge the problem, ask for help, I can deal with things knowing they are subject to change. Take an inventory as to what brought me to that particular space, change the things a can, and turn over the rest.

Remember hearing my sponsor say, "All you have is one day's feelings, one day's thoughts, one day's trials and tribulations, one day's sadness and joys, one day's emotions and traumas, etc.

When I take my Higher Power on my daily journey, I can get through anything. It is much easier if I allow Him to lead me and direct my day. I can take charge of my life, make healthy choices, and stay clean and sober one day at a time, when I realize the power isn't me. That when I surrender, I am empowered to do what I need to do for myself.

Looking at more than today can be very overwhelming and if you bring in the baggage from the past and the worry of tomorrow, it becomes a burden instead of enjoyment.

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Every time I get a negative feeling, I just need to breathe and let it go.

I think recovery allowed me to surrender things to my Higher Power. Through him I am empowered to do what I need to do, one day at a time.

I can speak up and be heard in today. I don't want to fight, yet I do deserve respect and the right to my personal space.

They say never go to bed angry. You don't need the stress and worry, and you don't need to pick it up when you get up in the morning.

I don't know how many 24 hours I have left, I just get up each morning grateful for another day. Each day is a blessing.

"Through him I am empowered to do what I need to do, one day at a time."

Osho speak of being in a state of "No Mind" and when we get there, that is where God is. We have no internal chatter, no distractions, no thoughts to take us out of where we are at, I call it the state of just being. Most times, that is just being with my God. Just being alone with me, which was never an option in the past. It was okay to be me.

[Lin]

to me stay in today is a helpful hint to keep me from dwelling on the past or obsessing abotu the future.

Both can get me in trouble.

LIN

[caressa]

Thanks for sharing Lin. This is a one day at a time program and when I remember to stay in today, I need to focus on me and my recovery. It isn`t about the past or what is going to happen in tomorrow, it is how I live in today that gives me a promise for a better tomorrow.

I can`t live in today and put my work in the program in the past into the present. I need to continue to work the steps and practice the principles in all my affairs in today.

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Hopefully everyone got through Christmas one day at a time. I pray that you continue to live that way and not find the need for alcoholic liquid libation to bring in the New Year.

It is one day at a time. Just for today, I chose not to use people, places, and things.

When I stay in today, I can deal with it and not get overwhelmed. When I stay in today, I can experience each moment as it comes along, be it the good, bad, and the ugly. Change those ugly thoughts into something healthy, like a New Year`s Resolution.



Stay in the moment, look for the things you are grateful for, especially those that have happened in recovery. Any day sober is a good day, soundness of mind comes with emotional sobriety.

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Stay in today, it is tonight that is New Year's Eve.

Remember to be grateful for your sobriety (soundness of mind) and you won't put yourself at risk and jeoprodize yourself by taking a step over the line.

We can do what I can't do alone. When I can't get out to meetings, I come here looking for food for my spirit, to keep me emotionally balanced, and mentally on track. The stinking thinking can take me back to drinking.

The same can be said for resentments, be they past or present.

I remember when I use to drink because I couldn't stand to be around them sober. Many times, that was because I didn't like me. I had to learn to love and respect myself. Without me, I have nothing. If I pick up in today, I am lost. A cigarette would kill me faster than anything. It isn't safe for me to be around a lot of people who are smoking. I got taken for a snob because I had to distance myself at meetings. All I wanted to do was make healthy choices for me. My balcony is my smoking room when friends and family visit me, even that affects my lungs. It is also my fault that I have C.O.P.D. and I am so grateful that I made the decision to quit 14 years ago. I may have 21 years sober, but looking back, I never had true sobriety until I quit smoking. Cigarettes covered up a multitude of feelings and things that I buried, stayed covered up and didn't surface.

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Appreciate the possibilities

In the smallest detail of life there is much for which to be thankful. In all of life itself there is no limit to the possibilities for appreciation.

In each day, in each moment, life's blessings continuously pour forth. In the quiet times, in the grand and magnificent experiences, there is always richness upon richness in the living of life.

Certainly there are disappointments and pains that come along on a regular basis. Yet when you stand back and look at the big picture, those difficult moments, as intense as they are, only make up a tiny fraction of the overall possibilities.


On the whole, life is exceedingly worth any trouble, any setback, any difficulty. For always there are countless possibilities of goodness stretching out in every direction.

The simple appreciation of the positive possibilities in any moment will begin to bring the best of those possibilities to life. Merely recalling how good life can be will serve to make it truly better.

Life asks much of you, and yet it gives far, far more than it asks. Appreciate the countless possibilities, and you can indeed make the best of them real.

From my site JoAnne`s Recovery Road

All I am asked to do is be the best me I can be in today. Many days I fall short, but all I am asked to do is try. I can't compare my pain and trauma to that of others. I need to address my issues that made me use pills, alcohol, relationships, and food to stuff my feelings. When I got clean, I had to come clean and bring the darkness into the Light.

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