Short Break for me...I am an alcoholic and get caught up in my own self-destructive thinking. I was depressed all yesterday and am having board withdrawals. I don't want to quit something I started like I have done so much of in the past.
I like this quote....
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
If I bring yesterdays *yuck* into my moments of today, I am stealing from myself, and my usefulness to HP. Stealing was definitely a big character defect of mine - but I CAN and DO ask HP to remove this from me and replace it with faith in Him.
-- Edited by justadrunk on Friday 4th of April 2014 08:29:48 AM
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Thanks for everything. Peace and Love on your journey.
What would happen if you could fully inhabit the present moment? What if your thoughts could focus on what is actually happening right now? What if you could observe your actions/reactions instead of being rerouted by them to some familiar perspective that may lock you in place?
Too often our minds are either focused on past dramas and stories, or traveling somewhere into the future. The past can color our present like a veil, which obscures the light. The future may hold the dream of something better or reflect a world of worry, depending on where your thoughts like to play. If you can be fully aware of what you are feeling, observe it as if you were watching a play, and accept that awareness, then even painful feelings like fear can dissolve. Fear cannot coexist with being in the now. As you feel the fear and observe that you are feeling it, that helps removes the charge. That emotion, which was acting as a warning signal, gradually loses its hold and dominance. This creates new room within you, which can now be filled with an ease and peace that are deeply real.
Instead of the mind-chatter that identifies you with a prickly past, or projects you into a questionable future, you can connect with your true essence, which lives beyond time and circumstances. In the end, the now is all we really have. Fill yours with acceptance, self-compassion and love. You will be amazed at how your inner resources grow stronger and how, just beneath the surface, peace and joy are waiting to remind you that this is the truth of who you are.
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Thanks for everything. Peace and Love on your journey.
Just MY thing....I think the steps took care of the yesterdays and all the bull shit.......I don't have a hell of a lot of fear re tomorrows...(faith)
Which just leaves today...and living moment to moment...:) and doing what we gotta do..one thing at a time...and just being the best we can be...Unless someone F....s it up...lol
how do we really know they 'f' it up - maybe it is the growth opportunity we desperately needed all along ;)
In my household - I can no longer thank my husband for being such a wonderful growth opportunity - he's come along to the point in his program of knowing that I'm actually frustrated with him and not in acceptance and pretty much secretly think he's an ass.
Of course - we both know now, that there is no need to fret over each others 'lack of acceptance' anymore. We don't have to steal each others practice at acceptance like we once did (fix it - rescue) or opportunities to grow closer to the light of the spirit. We let each other work out our own 'stuff' and it's much easier this way. We grow up a little and while we might grow apart temporarily, we eventually grow closer as we grow closer to HP.
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Thanks for everything. Peace and Love on your journey.
Acceptance is also thee operative word in the definition of love that I've been given. "Love is the complete and total acceptance of every human being for exactly who they are".
