Pancake Marathon:

Halting is all I can say today is my action within the action before the action, that I must carry the message properly; to have principles before personalities. It is my career these days that I find the able because I have that God into my life that I have allowed myself to be free from the pain that I allowed myself to be caged by; it is just pain that help me to get to a solution: so I know all things have value. it is up to me to give it meaning, not to judge it unworthy as essentially what would be simply known as to judge; it is at moments of just keeping my peace of mind, to allow it to happen in its own time and to give others a chance to get to that point as well: or maybe that is what humility is all about and be able to properly carry the message.

acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude is the path to seeing that God doesn't make junk and that then helps us to see that Feelings are not facts; all that then we can see that How Important Is It when we are to hold to the point of Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. That when we hold to this wisdom we will see that we have the able to Hugs not Drugs to be able to push, seeing that it is us that has to get to the point of being able to halt; so that we can just love and think, so we act and stop just reacting: to simply trust again.

Acronyms

WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
HALT: if you're _ Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve
THINK: is it...? Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind
TRUST: Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions

Slogans

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
God doesn't make junk
Feelings are not facts
How Important Is It
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less
Hugs not Drugs

Principles

To lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our
to let self-seeking slip away
to know New Freedom and call it serenity

Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives

Slogans (underlined ) blog page Acronyms (bold) blog page Principles (italic): A.A. files

Meeting topic

How to properly care the message
the willingness to find yourself again
how to keep your peace of mind by not stealing anybody else's, or then you gave your peace of mind away

word of the month

Honesty/Integrity/Concern/readiness

step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 12/to give where credit is due I got all of these readings from "recovery HQ" _ but I put them in a Living life on life's terms and to Better care of the message and you can actually find all of them in Daily Readings and Inspirations

Spiritual principle a day: The Discernment Dimmer Switch

Page 131

"Discernment comes from hard experience: trusting people we shouldn't, being hurt, and coming back anyway."

Living Clean, Chapter 5, "Friendship"

Addicts seem especially prone to being all-or-nothing people. We either know or have been the kind of people who flip between manipulation and brutal honesty, who exercise eight days a week or not at all, or who have love/hate relationships with everything and everybody. One member described their approach to relationships this way: "Either I'm all in or you're dead to me." Suspicion, cynicism, and self-reliance were survival skills.

It doesn't take much cleantime for us to realize this dark and fearful view of the world won't serve our recovery well. Hope for a better life creeps up on us, crowding out our previously dark outlook. Some of us even adopt an uncharacteristically sunny disposition as the renowned "pink cloud" colors our entire approach to life for a time. Not to knock this glorious phase of early recovery or those lucky enough to experience it, but blind optimism carries its own risks. We can trust NA with saving our lives without entrusting every member with all of our secrets. It's important to modulate our openness, discerning the difference between sharing at group level, confiding in a friend, and baring our soul in a Fifth Step. Of course, some of our best lessons come from our mistakes.

This is where discernment comes in. Discernment introduces us to the brake pedal so that we don't have to lurch between extremes. Tapping the brakes on our thinking and behavior allows us to practice good judgment instead of impulsiveness. Discernment turns a toggle switch into a dial. Instead of binary choices like trust or don't trust, we discern the useful territory between poles. We discern not just right from wrong, but also right from almost right.

Discernment helps us make better choices and learn from experience. We'll still get things wrong, but we take the time to discern a better approach and try again.

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Do I have toggle switches for some of my emotions or behaviors that should be converted to dials? How can a discernment dimmer switch tone down some of my excesses?

Keep It Simple: Anyone who follows a middle course is called a sage.--- Maimonides

Much of the wisdom of our program is about how to live in the middle. We learn how to pause and think before we act. We ask, "What is the best way to handle this?" We look for the smooth part of the road. Our actions tell us who we are. We listen to our actions, and we think about them. This listening and thinking takes time. This slows us down. It's good for us. It gives us time to talk with our Higher Power. After all, we want our actions to come from the new values our Higher Power has given us. Thus, over time we act and feel wiser. The wisdom of the program becomes part of who we are.
Prayer for the Day: I pray that I I don't get caught up in the rush of the day. Higher Power, teach me to stop and think, to seek Your wisdom.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll set aside time to think, meditate, and be alone. I will listen to what's inside me.

NA Just For Today: Are We Having Fun Yet?

"In time, we can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of recovery." Basic Text, pp. 53-54
Imagine what would happen if a newcomer walked into one of our meetings and was met by a group of grim-faced people gripping the arms of their chairs with white knuckles. That newcomer would probably bolt, perhaps muttering, "I thought I could get off drugs and be happy."
Thankfully, our newcomers are usually met by a group of friendly, smiling folks who are obviously fairly content with the lives they've found in Narcotics Anonymous. What an enormous amount of hope this provides! A newcomer, whose life has been deadly serious, is strongly attracted by an atmosphere of laughter and relaxation. Coming from a place where everything is taken seriously, where disaster always waits around the next corner, it's a welcome relief to enter a room and find people who generally don't take themselves too seriously, who are ready for something wonderful.
We learn to lighten up in recovery. We laugh at the absurdity of our addiction. Our meetings-those rooms filled with the lively, happy sounds of percolating coffee, clattering chairs, and laughing addicts-are the gathering places where we first welcome our newcomers and let them know that, yes, we're having fun now.
Just for today: I can laugh at myself. I can take a joke. I will lighten up and have some fun today.

Daily Reflections: "HOLD BACK NOTHING"

The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you you share your first accurate self-survey. . . . Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS p. 61-62,
A tiny kernel of locked-in feelings began to unfold when I first attended A.A. meetings and self knowledge then became a learning task for me. This new self-understanding brought about a change in my responses to life's situations. I realized I had the right to make choices in my life, and the inner dictatorship of habits slowly lost its grip.
I believe that if I seek God I can find a better way to live and I ask Him daily to assist me in living a sober life.

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