Today my choices and actions will be motivated by a desire to enjoy life, rather than by a need to avoid the anxiety of living.
Anon.
I’m amazed as to how much my anxiety levels have reduced since I stopped drinking. It’s sheer bliss compared to the daily state of high anxiety I assumed was a ‘normal’ part of my life.
Bloody awesome.
Boozebrain
You have to be mistrustful of any language when it’s too much on one side or the other. You can’t just endlessly wait; you finally also have to do. And then in the doing, our higher power either opens or closes doors; things either happen or they don’t. You must be ready to go back to prayer. And if you act before prayerful surrender, the action will be filled with self, manipulation and frenzy.
Contemplation and action are equally important in the balanced life. I don’t know which comes first; they are two steps in the one essential dance.
Richard Rohr
Here’s to prayerful surrender. May I never forget it.
Boozebrain.
Thought for today: If fears begin to cloud my day, I will focus on the facts rather than on the fiction.Anon.
Yes, how the monkey mind loves to swing from unfounded thoughts to the absurd and ridiculous and back again. How many years did I get lost in fiction of my own doing.
So good to be free of all that shit. Here’s to ongoing clarity.
Boozebrain
I believe what the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are truly saying is:
We suffer to get well.
We surrender to win.
We die to live.
We give it away to keep it.
Richard Rohr
Couldn’t agree more.
Booyah
Boozebrain
It is not your circumstances that need alter, so much as yourself. After you have changed, conditions will naturally change. Twenty – Four Hours a Day, June 14.
Well bugger me, if that ain’t the truth. Just took me years to figure that out.
Yihaa
Boozebrain
The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. As Bill Sees It, p.115.
Says it all really.
Boozebrain
‘When you stop trying to figure it out, to psychologise it, to justify it, to rationalise it, to legitimate why you are right and they are wrong, or whatever it might be, then you come to a place of surrender and accept it is what it is. That’s when you can grow.’
Richard Rohr.
‘Accept it is what it is.’ I’m trying – every day. Sometimes it’s easy to accept and sometimes it’s not.
I’ve been feeling anxious for nearly a week now. All work related and today didn’t help. A very average day and still beating myself up about it.
In terms of my anxiety, I will have to monitor it because if it remains at this level thats not gonna be good for me or anyone. Just have to keep working at it for now. There’s no other way.
Boozebrain.
Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can begin. As Bill Sees It, p.44
Here’s to realistic humility.
Boozebrain
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