Our Thoughts

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January 10

You are reading from the book Today's Gift.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment. --David D. Burns

Good thoughts are like bright colors in a painting. Negative thoughts are dark and dreary and drab. Each day we paint pictures of our own lives with our thoughts. If we step back and look at the canvas, we will see whether the picture is alive with bright colors or dreary and lifeless like a dark cloud. Our thoughts have the power to bring joy or sadness our way, depending on what we expect or look for in our surroundings. The choice of how we want our lives to be is ours. Since we paint a new picture each day, we are always free to change things when they don't please us. What better time than the present?

Is there something in my life I'd like to change today?

This reminds me that it was my thinking that got me into trouble in the first place.  Quite often thought was followed by action.  I was grateful when I heard in the rooms of recovery, "Just because you have a thought, you don't have t act on it."  Even better, "Just because you have a feeling, you don't have to act on it.  No more act/react. I could work the slogan Hesitate and Meditate.  In other words think before you speak.  But then in recovery, I had to change those thoughts into healthy ones.

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THIS GOES WITH THE THOUGHT IN THE COLUMN, A DAY CAN START ANY TIME.

WE HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE. WE CAN MAKE A DECISION IF OUR DAY IS CLOUDY AND GRAY OR FULL OF SUNSHINE.

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Have a great weekend.