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Quetzal


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Seek balance.

Balance emotions with reason.

Combine detachment with doing our part.

Balance giving with receiving.

Alternate work with play, business with personal activities.

Balance tending to our spiritual needs with tending to our other needs.

Juggle responsibilities to others with responsibilities to ourselves.

Balance caring about others with caring about ourselves.

Whenever possible, let's be good to others, but be good to ourselves too.

Some of us have to make up for lost time.

Today, I will strive for balance.

From The Language of Letting Go

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WOW!! I can't believe this is the first thing I see my first time on this forum. I have been sober since September 30, 2007. I am in early sobriety treatment. I have been confused, and a little overwhelmed buy everything going on. I am changing old patterns of my life. Balance is the thing I need. I usually try to do everything and, end up frustrated when it gets screwed up. I ignore my needs, try to help other people to much, try to keep everyone happy, I work to much, and then get mad that I do. I have been feeling guilty with some of the decisions I have had to make, and selfish. I have had a need to understand what I have to do. Balance is the explanation. Working towards balance in my life is exactly what I need. Thank you for posting this, you have helped me understand, and experience a major change in my life.

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Welcome to MIP, Robairto! You have an added 24hrs on me & will be celebrating your 18mths on Monday :) Congratualtions to you. I can relate to your post so much & thank Carol for hers. I too am having a big difficulty in finding balance today. Fulfilling on the things I need to do. I have struggled with an assignment for the last 2wks & manage to keep myself very busy doing everything else but! I'd like to be more sensible & I wrote a little prayer to the God of my understanding last night to help me. I know God helps those who help themselves & I still don't know how to entirely help myself. I guess this one thing for me is laziness & I haven't asked for it to be removed yet! I will try that next, after sharing it here with you. Yes, balance. Not my forte either & I need to take more time out to calm down & let things do their own unfolding. I can be very good at complicating things & I don't want to work my way up to fever pitch where all of a sudden a drink seems attractive. Just for Today.. I do not want to drink. Thanks for inspiring & helping me share about this today, Rob. Again, welcome to MIP. Keep coming back & sharing your ES&H with us. I'm looking forward to hearing you, Danielle x

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Welcome Roberto! Its great to see you posting! 18 months is an awesome achievement for both you and sobrietyspell!!!! Way to go! The beauty of this program is others share where they are at sometimes and we can get advise or answers to those things that baffle us! Or at least it opens our eyes on things that trouble us. Saw a good "reading regarding this and will have to go find it.....

I have a feeling I should paint what I am supposed to paint. So I sit. And there my hand moves and I made a picture.
--Norval Morriseau

The writer sits, head in hands, amid a mound of crumpled paper wads. The deadline is tomorrow and not even the first paragraph is written. The writer has been working nonstop since the early morning hours. Frustration pushes the writer up from the chair and out on a long walk in the woods to the stream. After an hour of plunging through lush woods, a rest by the stream listening to the sounds of the rippling water is refreshing. Back at the typewriter, the fingers move, the words flow, the job is done.

Sometimes we need to quiet ourselves to let our inner resources flow through our outer noise. We are always doing what we are supposed to do. Even when things don't seem to come together just right, there is a purpose; even if only to let us know we need to do something else for a while.

How much simpler our lives can be if we only have the faith to accept what happens as a guidepost along a path that is naturally correct.

Am I frustrated with something I should step away from?




-- Edited by lani at 16:04, 2008-03-28

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*Some of us have to make up for lost time*

No pressure lol *Procrastination is the thief of time*

I feel better. A sense of peace & studious quiet has come over me at last. I don't know why & I wish I could click my fingers & make it happen sometimes but somehow it seems like it had to happen this way, for me, for today & 1Day it may improve.. 1Day@aTime if I let it & trust in the process. Sometimes I try too hard instead of just doing. I don't like pressure or panic. It drives me insane. Thanks for the peace your posts have helped me to find today, Danielle x

*Please grant me the Serenity
to Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
& the Wisdom to know the difference*


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LOL....
I just love SEEING the word "Balance" pop up here frequently, as it makes me take a good laugh at myself. Progress, not perfection, right?
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