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Post by BW on Sept 10, 2010 10:30:46 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 caressa on Sept 10, 2010 16:05:59 GMT -5
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Post by BW on Sept 12, 2010 11:06:21 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, 2010 11:04:13 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, 2010 13:50:48 GMT -5
Have a book that says, "Spiritual Law transcends Earthly laws." I didn't always take it as divine orderly good, I thought of it, as I can do what I want to do as long as I align my will with God's. The thought was good but the intent and motive was not always good behind the thought.
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Post by BW on Sept 14, 2010 13:14:41 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 SunnyGirl on Sept 14, 2010 17:00:05 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing......
When I let go I have to remember....
I Can't, God Can, I Think I'll Let Him!
Hugs, SG
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Post by BW on Sept 15, 2010 11:50:35 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, 2010 9:09:06 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, 2010 12:31:53 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, 2010 11:59:16 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 caressa on Sept 18, 2010 15:50:20 GMT -5
Remember a time when I had a 'fear' of missing a meeting. For me to miss a meeting, meant setting up myself for relapse. I try to get to my one meeting a week. I met a lady who goes to an Al-Anon Thursday morning meeting. I am going to see if I can arrange my schedule to go to it. I can't go this week because of foot doctor appointment, but it is something for the future. Arranged to go into the jail a week from Monday with a fellow Al-Anon member. As I said to a guy today, "I probably talk more 'program' than most people do who go to meetings. F2f is good. I have had to get my recovery where and when I can.
In early recovery, I needed that f2f meeting every day. In the beginning, I did two meetings a day because I wasn't working and I needed something to fill up my day that was healthy. We are over achievers. Some go back to school and others to work and they put all their addictive energy into it and don't give themselves time to heal from their drug of choice and it becomes their new addiction.
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Post by BW on Sept 19, 2010 12:46:34 GMT -5
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Learning to be tolerant of others, a difficult task at best, does not mean that we have to agree with them! Tolerance disagrees agreeably, we think. If someone disagrees with us right now, we can agree to disagree.
Right now I ask for the serenity to agree to disagree because my discomfort for prolonged times could lead me to pick up that first fix, pill, or drink!
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Post by BW on Sept 20, 2010 16:03:14 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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Post by BW on Sept 21, 2010 9:23:59 GMT -5
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If you were the helper and not the helpee, how would you like the person you were working with to behave? Are you acting in a manner consistent with what you believe is right?
Help me act in the same manner I would have others act with me under the same circumstances.
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Post by BW on Sept 23, 2010 13:10:03 GMT -5
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Even though you are a unique human being, you are not so unique that your recovery is any different then thousands before you. If you think we don't understand, then your disease is playing tricks on you because it doesn't want you getting well with us.
I name three reasons why I am just like every other chemical dependent seeking recovery.
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Post by BW on Sept 24, 2010 8:50:01 GMT -5
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There is a fundamental unity that underlies the fellowship of our programs. It is this unity that can comfort us and help us hold on when we want a fix, pill, drink, smoke, or snort more than we want this new unfamiliar life.
God, as I understand You, show me how to take comfort from the unity of fellowship when drugs call me back.
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Post by caressa on Sept 24, 2010 14:45:23 GMT -5
It never ceases to amaze me how reading and things that are put on our path can give us comfort and be just what we need at the moment. Before I left for the eye doctor's today, I got a phone call then while waiting for the bus, I ran into someone from NA and got a hug. Doesn't get any better than that.
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Post by BW on Sept 26, 2010 10:12:35 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 27, 2010 9:51:48 GMT -5
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There is a fundamental unity that underlies the fellowship of our programs. It is this unity that can comfort us and help us hold on when we want a fix, pill, drink, smoke, or snort more than we want this new unfamiliar life.
God, as I understand You, show me how to take comfort from the unity of fellowship when drugs call me back.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.