Savor each moment

[majestyjo]

More Language Of Letting Go

Savor each moment

Enjoy each moment as it comes.

It’s so easy to relish that final moment, when the project is finished and the work is turned in. It’s easy to trick ourselves into thinking that peak moments in life are the only ones that count.

In Benjamin Hoff’s The Tao of Pooh, Pooh talks about the anticipation of eating his honey. The moment when the honey touches your lips is good, Pooh says. But there’s the moment right before, that moment of anticipation, that might be just as good if not better.

Go for your dreams. Go for those peak moments of performance and pleasure,too. The day you get your ten-year medallion for sobriety is a good day. Achieving that success in your career– that special award– is a wonderful moment, indeed. And those peak moments in love are indescribably delicious to experience and reminisce about.

While many people talk about being in that peak zone of pleasure all the time, most of us know that peak moments are only a very small fraction of our lives. If we only enjoy those peak moments, or those moments just before, we’ll forget to notice the importance of a lot of our lives.

Go for peak moments. But open up your heart and let the sheer raw beauty of all the moments in. When you stop looking and waiting for those peak experiences, you might find out how sweet and delicious each single moment really is.

Savor each moment of your life.

God, help me let go of anything that’s sabotaging my joy. Help me release the belief that I can only find happiness, pleasure, and joy when I’m on top of a peak.

[caressa222]

Like this, I can find joy on the peaks or in the valleys. For most of my life I sabotaged myself, in the good times as well as the not so good times. I have freedom of choice.

Any day sober is a good day. As I grew in the program they became more frequent. I use to tell myself I was sober and fill my face with food to stuff my feelings. I got to recognize these old patterns and applied the program to them, what ever they may bed. I had to turn over my love of the game Bejeweled 3, because I developed an obsessive/compulsive attitude toward playing it. My God took that away from me. If I feel it coming back, I turn it over to my God again. It is nice to know that once I make a decision, I can make another one after it.

[majestyjo]

Like the reference to the honey, it is so true. So often it is the chase or the anticipation that we crave and look forward to rather than the substance itself.

When I volunteered in the Young Offender section of the local jail, it was the chase, and it didn't matter you got caught.  You thought of all the times you did and didn't get caught.