Fear is at the core of codependency. It can motivate us to control situations or neglect ourselves.
Many of us have been afraid for so long that we don't label our feelings fear. We're used to feeling upset and anxious. It feels normal. Peace and serenity may be uncomfortable.
At one time, fear may have been appropriate and useful. We may have relied on fear to protect ourselves, much the way soldiers in a war rely on fear to help them survive. But now we're living life differently.
It's time to thank our old fears for helping us survive, then wave good bye to them. Welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety. We don't need that much fear anymore. We can listen to our healthy fears, and let go of the rest.
We can create a feeling of safety for ourselves, now. We are safe, now. We've made a commitment to take care of ourselves. We can trust and love ourselves.
God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. Replace it with a need to be at peace. Help me listen to my healthy fears and relinquish the rest.
Melody Beattie ©
Practicing being in service takes the focus off ourselves and looks for how we might help others. When we feel grateful, we naturally want to share ourselves and our good fortune. Then we find that being in service only increases our gratitude and joy.
Mary Manin Morrissey
AA Thought for the Day / It will become more and more evident as we go forward
that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from the pains of growing up. / 12 & 12, p. 92
You are capable of many wonderful things that you do not even know about. Decide to start discovering some of them. Outside the walls of your imagined limitations, there is a whole world waiting to be experienced. Allow yourself to venture into it.
There is so very much you can do when you stop being so consumed with what you can't do. There are so many opportunities and possibilities to explore when you stop worrying about your shortcomings and disappointments. Let go of the small, limiting thoughts that revolve only around your ego. Make room for the big, expansive thoughts that enable you to experience life's magnificent abundance.
There is so very much you can do, so very much you can be, so very much you can give. Choose to open yourself to the wealth of possibilities. Step outside the walls of your old assumptions. And take life to a whole new level.
Ralph Marston
"Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life itself: unshakable security, clear judgment, and deep personal relationships."
Eknath Easwaran
We must become artists in living. To live by inspiration means to sense the divine touch in everything; to enter into the spirit of things; to enter into the joy of living.
Ernest Holmes
I searched endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen
Love knows no place it cannot go and no person it cannot bring rest.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
We must release the old to make room for the new.
Alan Cohen
Living From the Heart
Always on my Desk
Glimpes of the Peak
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"Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life itself: unshakable security, clear judgment, and deep personal relationships."
Eknath Easwaran
Not only will meditation make your mind clear, but the time spent in mediation, contemplation, gives my day a jump start. I read a passage by Ernest Holmes that encouraged a reader to sit, mediate and realize that we/I are the Center of Divine Attraction. Then I received a numerology reading gift from a very dear friend, and the person said to meditate, exercise, and eat healthy. This happened within a span of a few days. I was already doing some meditation, but decided to up the scale. My attention level increased, and since I was already doing affirmations, I kept right on. Then I read a column by David Ault, a Science of Mind practitioner where he said,
"To actually affirm and proclaim that I am the center, the very core of divine attraction summoned up all sorts of remarkable images. the most exciting was that of a bulls-eye in the center of a target.
"Here I am" I joyously proclaimed, a walking bulls-eye, declaring that I am the center of Divine Attraction! C'mon God, hit me with the good!"
Talk about a mental picture, and so true, since I have been doing affirmations and meditations, the days have flown, been fun, and I have done things unprecedented. Life is joyous, even while running hurdles, and I do not think I will ever stop my morning habit of meditating and posting to my blog. I often wondered why Ron or Jeff would do the daily postings, and now I know. They developed a habit of sharing, loving, and giving and what a GREAT habit to have. It is a very positive uplifting energizing way to start a new day that is blessed with opportunities and abundance. Thus I echo David's ending remark,
"Here I am" I joyously proclaim, a walking bulls-eye, declaring that I am the center of Divine Attraction! C'mon God, hit me with the good!"
in love ~ jimmy
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