Hmmm…just for today I choose to be clean.
Just for this moment I choose peace over chaos…
Just in this moment I choose to be totally present, to “feel” my body- to step out of my head and all the thoughts that make me crazy and suffering drama, fear, and suffering…
Just for this one moment I take a deep breath and feel my body relax and the tenseness leave as I release the air….
And now another moment…I am faced with again the choice to breath in the moment, and to engage in the moment…
And again, I choose to step out of the chatter of my mind and listen to my breath, and feel it move through my nostrils….
Moment by moment I make it through another day, day by day I make it through another week, week by week I make it through another month, and then a year and then two…. this is one part of recovery…. this is the begining of recovery to live without picking up…
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Just beautiful, thank you! I work my program by going to my higher power and asking Him to redirect my negative thinking to something He’d have me replace it with. It is said the battles in our lives are lost or won in the mind. It’s true for me. Thoughts become attitides, attitudes become emotions and emotions can become actions. My thoughts are where the seed of something negative begins. I refuse to live my life one more day in darkness, bitterness and fear, never mind pain. Difficult and painful things still happen but my way of looking at them have changed. Calamity to serenity for you always, Sandy
Such a blessing! Thank you! If we take one moment at a time as well as a positive thought for each negative one, it works. For me that’s working it. Serenity, Sandy
Think about it… REALLY,…Just think… It’s ONLY a bottle of vodka……UNTIL you pick it up!!!!!!!!!!!
Yo Coach….
In my experience I found that making these small choices to stay sober/clean or to change a thinking or behaving pattern of the moment, or hour or day, whatever I could manage, was actually practice that made me better at that particular thing.
I found I began to develop “recovery habits” which made recovery and sobriety easier and easier.
Like the AA promise that “We will intuitively know how to handle problems that used to baffle us”. How does this promise unfold? My answer to that is by us re-training ourselves at different ways to think and live. Just like a golf swing or karate move (wax-on, wax-off), we just become better and better through practice whether we realize or not.
The benefit in the short term is that we are stopping the bleeding of the chaos we create by addict thinking/behaving.
Great post!
Ciao.
Chaz