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Post by majestyjo on Jan 1, 2016 11:14:22 GMT -5
Just for today, I will celebrate the first day of a new year. I didn't think I would live to reach 50. Didn't find recovery until I was 49. Here I am at 73, still clean and sober. I am going to celebrate by watching the Rose Bowl Parade.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 1, 2016 20:49:11 GMT -5
An attitude of gratitude really goes a long way!!! I struggled to get sober from age 23-27. I finally got sober at age 27 and now 31 years later I am still sober at age 58 years old. Nobody is more amazed then me!!!  I celebrated the day by going grocery shopping and hitting a meeting. We took down all the Christmas lights and is back to reality-------Bunnypie |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 2, 2016 19:22:20 GMT -5
Just for today, I will accept my disease of addiction and alcoholism (dis-ease), my disability, and my defects of character. I will turn them all over to the God of my understanding and ask for help in today. I love the Serenity Prayer, it is good to stop and say it, listen to the words, and trust the process.
Acceptance is the key, when I am defiant then I block myself from my God's Care and Good Orderly Direction and Divine Orderly Good.
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 2, 2016 21:44:13 GMT -5
Oh Jo!---Acceptance is the key but where do I find the door?  ? Bunnypie |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 2, 2016 21:53:37 GMT -5
You ask your Higher Power, He/She will show you the way. I also found, that there are windows, especially into new insight.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 2, 2016 21:57:20 GMT -5
YES! if you can't find a door a window will work too!!! Thanks for the idea..... |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 3, 2016 22:55:55 GMT -5
Just for today, I will try to remember it is one day at a time and not project into the future. It is so important to stay grounded and live in today and not worry, stress and project into tomorrow. I need to celebrate today and remember to be grateful. It is just for today, this days issues, challenges, feelings, etc and this too shall pass.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 4, 2016 2:04:56 GMT -5
Here is a cleaned up version of advice I have heard around the tables: "You put one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow and you "move your bowels all over today" It is a real graphic and visual way of looking at the idea of Live for today!!! Bunnypie |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 4, 2016 22:42:47 GMT -5
I was told that if you put one foot in yesterday and one foot into tomorrow, you pi$$ all over today. When you stay in today, live in the moment, the burden(s) aren't so heavy.
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 4, 2016 22:55:02 GMT -5
Just for today, I will ask for clarification and the inner knowing I need in today. The Native American Medicine Wheel, begins in the east and my experience has been that it is shown by the colour yellow. The sun is rising, a new beginning (each day), and stands for clarity and illumination. I learned this in the Recovery House I went to in 1991. An Elder was brought in to show us the meaning of the medicine wheel and it had a big impact on my life. www.nativewomenscentre.com/files/Traditional_Teachings_Booklet.pdf |
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 5, 2016 1:03:08 GMT -5
I have been told that happiness is an inside job! So YES! what you are saying is true that is all starts inside.......
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 5, 2016 1:12:03 GMT -5
I was first introduced to that saying in Al-Anon. I was told it wasn't my husband's job to make me happy. I got an instant resentment. This was from a very long-long-timer. She had gray hair when I met her 24 years ago and she is still going to meetings. I am not sure if she has just under or just over 40 years. She said, "Happiness comes from within, I am responsible for my own happiness."
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 5, 2016 1:21:11 GMT -5
 www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-symbolism-owl.htmlIn Jamie Sams' book Animal Medicine, the Owl is depicted as Deception, which is really an opposite of clarity and knowing. The Owl is often depicted as Wisdom. I think of it as our inner knowing being aware that we are often deceiving ourselves, and as it says in the Serenity Prayer, and the wisdom to know the difference. |
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 5, 2016 1:31:06 GMT -5
WOW! thanks for mentioning that! I was told years ago that when you are experiencing something and the hairs on your arms stand up and you get a shiver that is your spirit inside saying YES and acknowledging that what you are seeing/hearing/experiencing is the truth......
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 5, 2016 15:51:18 GMT -5
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 5, 2016 19:15:16 GMT -5
I have a white flag that I made out of a piece of plastic picture frame & white wash cloth. I will sit in a chair and wave that white flag and say "I surrender" and it does help to physcially do that!!! Let Go or Be Dragged!!!!!
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 6, 2016 3:38:19 GMT -5
Just for today, I will remember that it is through my God's Grace that I am clean and sober in today. My name, JoAnne, means "God's Gracious Gift." He gifted me this program and I try to pass that gift on to others. Just for today, I will remember that I have to pass it on in order to keep it. I share because I care.  |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 6, 2016 15:19:10 GMT -5
Just for today, I will show love and caring to others, especial the "A" in my life. I will give that same love and care to myself. How can I have compassion for someone, if I can't find it for myself?  |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 7, 2016 13:34:51 GMT -5
Just for today, I will practice patience and tolerance. My water is off and all of a sudden, my son was willing to come and clean my apartment, so who knows when I will get another offer.  Walked downtown and to the library and my hip gave out. I thought the exercise would be good to stretch it out, but having problems with the pain. I tend to push myself, but have to stop and think, am I really suppose to be doing this?  |
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Post by bunnypie on Jan 8, 2016 10:04:36 GMT -5
Hey Jo---You never realize how much you need water or electricity until you don't have them!!! Good Luck! hope everything gets taken care of!!!---Bunnypie
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.