Robert is the Recovery Guy. Getting clean and sober on April 25, 1986 has given me the insight and practical skill set to not only stay sober, but to also re-invent myself to the person I always wanted to become. Showing others how to do this is my life goal.
Just like we would take a daily vitamin or we eat healthy daily or we make sure that we get enough sleep daily. Daily affirmation helps give us the positive momentum to be successful on a daily basis. Daily success is not necessarily based on the outcome what we’re talking about here is having a regular positive assertion of who we are as a person.
The purpose of the mask is to conceal. It is not so much as to conceal who we are as it is how we feel about who we believe we are.
One might say, If I knew what a synapse was I might be excited about it. I am glad you asked. “Synapses are the gaps between neurons. These gaps allow neurotransmitters to travel from one neuron to another.
Over the years I have learned more about power words and why they are essential in my personal motivation for life. When we consider the word power it is defined as “ability to act or produce an effect.”
It is not that I invite or necessarily look forward to the dark swirl in my life. What I do know is that negative things happen in the cycle of one’s life. As much as I don’t invite it I recognize it as being a necessary component in living. So often I learn my greatest lessons when something occurs that I either don’t agree with or an event that would cause me pain.
Living, interacting and being accountable to these 5 relationships everyday helps give me the direction I need and want. They also serve to give me the personal fulfillment of things I want done for me, but more importantly what I can do for others.
Where are you at in your Search for the Lost Chord? Are you like the happy wanderer that feels if you find it, you find it? Or are you like so many of us that if you don’t find it you will disappear into further darkness or death?
As I went further down this path of being true, I realized, despite who I had become, being true to who I was and who I could be was my new true. The reality was I was never anything even though it felt that way.
I understood how neglecting my body can cause such great present and even future damage. The emotional dimension is often based on who I see in the mirror. If who I am seeing is an unhealthy person it is very likely I will have a negative emotional response.
Before you and I came to recovery, it was not often or regular that we had reason to celebrate. Even when we did, it was usually short lived. After that, the reality of the direction our addiction was taking us brought us back to earth.
When we walk in this light and freedom we become convinced that going back is never an option.
This approach is, what I call, The Exchange Theory of Recovery. In this Great Exchange, what we are doing is understanding the need to remove negative past thoughts, experiences or people by exchanging them with something/someone more in line with the positive path we are choosing.