I need to accept my emotional, spiritual and physical condition. Feelings are good, I got to a meeting last night and listened to many sharing their truth. Spiritual always based on the truth of now starting with my feelings which impact on how I think from moment to moment. Physical condition not so good, aggravated slipped discs and trapped nerve in back. Can feel right in my head, take account of not being so mobile for today. Can do, cannot do, wisdom to know the difference. Contingent on my spiritual condition, dealing with the truth of my situation I am free to make the best choices. When I am unsure, I ask myself what advice I would give another with similar opportunities today. Then I check my suggestions with others dependent on the issues and options. Letting go of knowing the right answer and checking with people who know, asking for help and advice I am more likely to accept what I may do today… DonInLondon 2005-2010 Planet earth part of nature, providence, as life is not as we might wish it so. We do have choices today, personal and as a society over many aspects of human doings. Powerless over alcohol, people places and things feels like letting go the need to try control the impossible. Yet even the sober in this world are still driven to believe they have control. Mostly it is an illusion of their choosing. Acceptance of life as it is, truth, love and wisdom seem to flow more positively, rather than trying to hold back the tide of denial we humans need … Video Rating: 0 / 5
A right relationship with the Universe and knowing we all have a right to be here. Included, intertwined and always connected in the moment of now. For me it is not about control or having power over people, places and things or judging anything as right or wrong, good or bad. Living in the moment helps me see how I fit into the big picture and make the best choices open to me today. Freedom to choose life on life’s terms… Our path and journey in life is influenced by where we are, location, the opportunities open to us in this moment in time. No longer stuck by old thinking, old ways of behaving and letting go secrets which can keep me stuck. Open, honest and willing, I look outwards to opportunity, just for today asking for help rather than working it on my own and limited to one perception… Always the journey, the destination less obvious today… DonInLondon 2005-2010 A higher power of our own understanding; beyond thinking and feeling as we come to understand he she or it. Good conscience, courage and faith are elements of living we develop in recovery as the days of self-harm and harm to others slows and ends. A regular pattern of living in the day, being immersed in the moment of now becomes more than a feeling. In the day we feel reality, a spiritual “now”. Our own perception of a higher power can be very difficult. I have seen that I can be completely immune to the concept of powers greater than me; life gives us opportunity to ask ourselves what a higher …
DonInLondon Spiritual living and the fourth dimension, “time” is about utilising previous life experience to find out why the past contributes to positive or negative events today. No longer living in the past we are rocketed into the present moment. It can be “rude awakening,” and always a “spiritual awakening” if we are grounded in truth, love and wisdom… September: daily reflections, all about step & tradition nine. “Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” And of course: “the promises.” In my experience the promises can be resentments under construction if we hand over personal responsibilities to our higher power. September 2008 ~ 2010 Step nine is about clearing the wreckage of the past, what our old attitudes and behaviour did to ourselves and others and making the amends we can. Back then, when I as an active alcoholic I hurt myself and others. Step nine recognising old ways, making amends and committing to new ways of living… the promises Recovery is not about waiting for some magic, it is about putting in action to change our attitudes and behaviour. We need learn our feelings anew in recovery long enough to know what they are. Having found out what our feelings are, we then need take action or stinking thinking can make as mad as hell all over again today… -/- AA Daily Reflections ~ “Willingness to grow… If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. [As Bill Sees It ... Video Rating: 0 / 5
Spiritual is outward reality, truth, love, cherished and included in an infinite universe, timeless and now..Driven to extremes of any attitude or behaviour, EGO [EGO Edging God or & Good Out] ~ Don Dokken [Poison] “Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix” -/- When we are fixing, tripping, skimming the surface, superficial and indifferent, consumed in an inner world rich in nothing but ourselves… In my Ivory Tower, drink served its purpose to protect me from reality, not knowing truth, isolated and entrapped in my own deep chaos ~ Sammy Davis Jr “Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity” -/- Each day sober more is revealed, about living, inclusion, choices and love.. Who am I, where was I? Who are you, where are we? ~ Marguerite Duras “Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day” -/- Lost and forgotten.. We do not know until it is too late, ignorance, then denial and hooked ~ Finley Peter Dunne “Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts” -/- Once we know the facts, we make choices, find help, let go self obsession, live free to good choices.. For those of us who are alcoholics, we are the problem and the solution, knowing is the key which opens the door to sobriety ~ Matt Groening ~ “Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems” Knowing what we can do and cannot do safely offers opportunity to … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Tuesday, September 14
Benefitting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Everett’s Massage Envy accepts reservations starting Aug. 14 for the “Massage for the Cure.” On Sept. 14, Massage Envy locations nationwide offer one-hour massages, with donated to fight breast cancer. Read more on Everett Herald
Controversy reigns around camp for hard core homeless
A storm of outrage erupted in mid August when Prague city council gave the green light for a camp to be created for the capital’s homeless. Human rights groups said it was a throwback to a darker era, non-profit groups argued the step would simply not work. This week’s Talking Point looks at the arguments stirred up about the homeless camp. Read more on Radio Prague
Tony Blair Drank Like Crazy While Prime Minister [Memoirs]
# memoirs England is merrier than usual today, as ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair ‘s memoir finally hits bookstores! So, is he sorry about Iraq? Did he ever “like-like” the Queen? Many questions remain. Blair makes one thing clear, though: He loved getting drunk. More » Read more on Gawker
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