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Post by caressa on Nov 8, 2010 12:25:37 GMT -5
As the slogan says, "This too shall pass." That also means the good feelings and experiences as well as the not so good.
I need the program just as much in today as I did when I was new to recovery. It is a one day at a time program.
This reading also reminds me that my disease if four-fold and I need to work the Steps on all levels. I need to apply them to the mental, emotional and spiritual parts of my disease and just not heal the physical.
Sometimes my physical pain can be bad enough that I have difficulty thinking through it. I need to guard that my emotional pain isn't manifesting itself physically and visa versa. If I focus on my physical pain it can shut me off from the sunlight of the spirit.
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Post by BW on Nov 9, 2010 0:19:15 GMT -5
Pain reminds me I am alive...and yes it does sometimes get in the way and block me from the spirit but it can also get me to my knees to go directly to the source of healing and strength.
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Post by caressa on Nov 9, 2010 16:40:33 GMT -5
So true, as they say, "God answers knee-mail." Not able to get there very often these days physically. The last time I remember getting there, I felt a peace from the top of my head to the tip of my toes and I felt like the hand of God had touched me.
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Post by SunnyGirl on Nov 14, 2010 14:56:17 GMT -5
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under
heaven.... A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn,
and a time to dance. - - Bible
No, pain doesn't last forever! No matter how tough my life
might feel today, I am sure it won't stay that way forever.
I know my Higher Power is right there with me and He will
get me through what ever I am facing.
Through the years my recovery friends have gotten me past
some real rough patches in my life. I felt real pain and suffering
watching my daughter abuse her body with drugs, but it was
God and 12-steps that picked me up and kept me on the journey.
When my son was in a coma, it was prayer and knowing that
God was there with me, that got me through the unbearable
pain and fear that I might lose him.
Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll
react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from
the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your
healing process. Hit your knee's, God is just a prayer away!
Have a great day, SG
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Post by caressa on Nov 14, 2010 22:58:33 GMT -5
As a result of suffering from chronic pain, which never goes away, just makes itself known in different areas and in different ways, it is important for me to surrender it to my Higher Power each day and learn to do the do things that help me to live with it. When I have a problem thinking through it, my posts come out a bit garbled and I have to go back and modify sometimes, others I just let them be. It is where I am at in the moment. Stress is the biggest contributing factor along with the weather. Can't change the weather. I can make healthy choices concerning it. I didn't do that Saturday, I went out to watch the parade and got cold in my legs. In times of stress, I need to work my program and turn things over to my HP. As I have posted before, "My doctor says 'I have never met anyone who is more in touch with her body as you are. A healthy mind makes for a healthy body.'
When I shut down and shut off, and insist on doing no matter what, then I have more pain.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 9, 2019 13:49:06 GMT -5
Have a meditation card that says, Growing old gracfully. Pretty soon I will hve to start acting as if
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.