The Recovery Guy Blog
Robert shares varied concepts and approaches to understanding behavior that diverts us from our healthy desire to become well. We delve into social and medical aspects.
Blog #136 Fear vs Faith Part II
Without faith, we would never become who we are designed to become. Faith is fuel to the power that we will need to breakthrough our negative lifestyle into a life of victory and personal accomplishment. One of the things that I have found in my personal journey, is my personal faith serves to encourage others.
Blog #135 Step 8: Making Amends is Part of Healing
hose of us who find ourselves in the program of Al-Anon have often lived with either a distorted, self-righteous view of ourselves—that all the pain suffered was the result of someone else’s choices or behaviors, or the opposite—that some of us have an unwarranted sense of responsibility for our role in the difficulties and pain in our family. Neither is an entirely accurate view of reality. If we were honest with ourselves, even if we had the purest of intentions, sometimes our reactions to alcoholism hurt those in our lives.
Daily Affirmation
It is hard to have a positive assertion or a personal affirmation when we are inundated with so much negativity.
The Four Dimensions
As a Person of Recovery and a former obese person 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.
The Four Dimensions
Once I then add the spiritual as an essential influence to my view of me things begin to become even more distorted. Since the spiritual is intangible and therefore can’t see it, the likelihood of that perspective overriding the other three is near impossible.
Meditation is like Breath
As vital as meditation is it is, unfortunately, involuntary. there is no involuntary characteristic to it. there is no spiritual or otherwise fire alarm that automatically kicks in when we need it. meditation only occurs when I decide to meditate.
Building a Positive Self-Image
When I value my skills and talents, respect my own intelligence then I can act on my beliefs and feelings. The key is to feel better about me.
Follow the Path
Therefore, we must set ourselves on a proven path and follow this path as religiously as we drank alcohol and or used drugs. Without this degree of diligence, we will revert to the destructive path that the least resistance brings to us.
Lonely No More
Do you remember when you first came into personal recovery. Do you remember feeling alone, having a feeling of depression, destitute, companionless, solitaire, as if you were standing apart? If you felt this way as so many of us did, then you just described the classic definition of the word lonely