"I SILENCE OLD NEGATIVE MESSAGES AND REPLACE THEM WITH HEALTHY THOUGHTS"
"My beliefs affect my life. When my energy is expended on negative thoughts, I get the same old negative results. I have a very decided part in achieving the changes that I desire. I must silence the negative beliefs that have no bearing on my life today.
If old thoughts of anxiety or shame enter my thinking, I can silence them with soothing voices of my healthy adult self. Self-talk can be a useful tool for me. For positive changes to occur, it is not enough to wish that my life were different. If I don't keep on thinking in accord with the progress I have made, I do not get good results.
Today, I will concentrate upon the very good things I would like to see taking place in my life. I will not allow old mental habits to erode the changes I desire."
Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Rokelle Lerner
I can still have the old stinking thinking sometimes, waking up feeling that I've been sentenced to another day of life, things are bad and they're gonna get worse, 43 years of failure, nothing ever anywhere will work out for me, I need to fulfil all of my grandiose fantasies now, etc. Thanks to the programme, I have tools to deal with that stuff.
Steve, "every day is a holiday and every meal is a feast". Gratitude = happiness. Once we can be grateful for what we have, we can then focus on being grateful, in advance, for what we wish to achieve.
Thanks Dean, good stuff. Sometimes I can forget about gratitude and jump into the self-pity pit pretty easily, still.
Among the things for which I have big gratitude is that that thanks to AA, I haven't woken up with a hangover, shaking hands, retching, in terror of what I did the night before and to whom I had to apologise, in a while, not to mention that I'm alive. I can start from there...just over two years ago I can remember thinking that there was no way out of that!
Yep, need to think a bit more about being grateful for what I have!
I guess that's true, to some degree, as long as we act according to proper principles not just on our impulses.
There is a book out there by Emmet Fox called "power through constructive thinking, which outlines "the principles of life building through constructive thought". Here's the premise in a nutshell: "All power lies within creative thought. Thought is the key to life; for as a man thinketh so he does". How True..........
If I feel negativity creeping into my thought process I have the power of persuasion to help correct me. The thoughts we encounter are not always our own; they can, however, bring joy or sadness to our life depending on how we interpret them. That's why it's important to develop a good defense mechanism to guard against those annoying thought patterns that overwhelm us from time to time. A good support network of closely guarded people and a positive mindset will provide much needed assistance in times peril and persecution.
A positive thought process and a firm foundation can provide long term benefits against the negativity and wiles associated with this world. Positive actions do produce greater results as long as we align our thinking and actions together in perfect harmony. This will produce a more tranquil and purposed filled sobriety one day at a time -God willing.
~God bless~
"You're destiny is really in your own hands, because it is impossible to think one thing and produce another".
~Emmet Fox~
-- Edited by Mr_David on Friday 4th of March 2011 05:16:55 PM
-- Edited by Mr_David on Friday 4th of March 2011 05:20:00 PM
