Snips

The idea of giving ourselves what we want and need can be confusing, especially if we have spent many years not knowing that it's okay to take care of ourselves. Taking our energy and focus off others and their responsibilities and placing that energy on to our responsibilities and ourselves is a behavior that can be acquired. We learn it by daily practice.
What do I need to do to take care of myself today, or for this moment? What do I need and want to do? What would demonstrate love and self-responsibility? Am I caught up in the belief that others are responsible for making me happy, responsible for me? Then the first thing I need to do is correct my belief system. I am responsible for myself.
Have I been working too hard? Maybe what I need to do is take some time off
and do something fun.
There is no recipe, no formula, no guidebook for self care. We each have a guide, and that guide is within us. We need to ask the question: What do I need to do to take loving, responsible care of myself? Then, we need to listen to the answer. Self-care is not that difficult. The most challenging part is trusting the answer, and having the courage to follow through once we hear it.
Today, I will focus on taking care of myself. I will trust myself and my Higher Power to guide me in this process.
Melody Beattie ©

We have come into the world to bear witness to the glory of God that indwells us. Should we not, then, make decisions that fulfill our destiny, rather than those that diminish it? Every decision for good, every decision that withholds judgment and rises above difficulty celebrates God within. What will you decide today to honor your own divinity?
Mary Manin Morrissey


AA Thought of the Day / "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic." / AA, p. 122

Life can bring us to the edge of who we think we are: our sense of self, our capacity to love, our personal ambition and vision and what it all means to us. And from this view from the edge, we will find that we are far greater. From this place at the edge, we enter the unknown personal frontier of the broken-open heart. This experience of life holds a great gift, found only by those with courage to enter their own heart with eyes wide open.
Julie Interrante

"The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now."
Marshall Goldsmith

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
Denis Waitley

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
Ram Dass

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer