3/30/16 "Forgiven" ~12 Step Soul Food for the Spirit

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March 30
My Higher Power is guiding me with my positive attitude today.
Negatives are something I no longer choose to live with.
I feel positive strength pour through me
as I release all negative thoughts.
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Forgiven

There I sat,
all tattered and torn.
All that I did,
was constantly morn.
All of my pain,
I blamed on another,
My husband, my children,
my father, my mother.
Yet I know today,
that I am to blame,
for deep in my heart,
I carried such shame.
Now that I know,
that I am forgiven,
every new day,
is life worth the living.
Forgiving ones self,
Is a must to be done,
Then we'll have a life,
That's second to none.

Rebecca Ann Bowlin
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Just For Today
March 30                                              God - Centeredness

"Gradually as we become more God-centered than self-centered,
our despair turns to hope." Basic Text p. 92

What a glorious thing to have hope! Before coming to Narcotics
Anonymous, many of us lived lives of utter hopelessness. We believed 
we were destined to die from our disease.

Many members speak of being on a "pink cloud" their first months in 
the program. We've stopped using, made some friends, and life looks
promising. Things are going great. Then reality sets in. Life is still life—
we still lose jobs, our partners still leave us, friends still die, we still
get
sick. Abstinence is no guarantee that life will always go our way.

When the reality of life on its own terms sets in, we turn to our Higher
Power and remember that life happens the way life happens. But no
matter what occurs in our recovery we need not despair, for there is
always hope. That hope lies in our relationship with our Higher Power.

This relationship, as expressed by the thought in our text, develops
over time: "Gradually we become more God-centered". As we rely more
and more on the strength of our Higher Power, life's struggles don't 
have to drag us into the sea of despair. As we focus more on God, we 
focus less on ourselves.

Just for today: I will rely on my Higher Power. I will accept that,
regardless of what happens, my Higher Power will provide me with 
the resources to live with it. pg. 92

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Love and Tolerance

Love and tolerance of others is our code.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

I have found that I have to forgive others in all situations to maintain
any real spiritual progress.  The vital importance of forgiving may not 
be obvious to me at first sight, but my studies tell me that every great
spiritual teacher has insisted strongly upon it.

I must forgive injuries, not just in words, or as a matter of form, but in
my heart.  I do this not for the other persons' sake, but for my own
sake.  Resentment, anger, or a desire to see someone punished, are 
things that rot my soul.  Such things fasten my troubles to me with 
chains.  They tie me to other problems that have nothing to do with my 
original problem.

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Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ March 30th

A.A. Thought for the Day

Before I met A.A., I was very unloving.  From the
time I went away to school, I paid very little
attention to my mother and father, I was on my
own and didn't even bother to keep in touch with
them.  After I got married, I was very
unappreciative of my spouse.  Many a time I would
go out all by myself to have a good time.  I paid too
little attention to our children and didn't try to
understand them or show them affection.  My few
friends were only drinking companions, not real
friends.  Have I gotten over loving nobody but my
self?

Meditation for the Day

Be calm, be true, and be quiet.  Do not get emotionally
upset by anything that happens around you.  Feel a
deep, inner security in the goodness and purpose
in the universe.  Be true to your highest ideals.  Do
not let yourself slip back into the old ways of reacting.
Stick to your spiritual guns.  Be calm always.  Do not
talk back or defend yourself too much against
accusation, whether false or true.  Accept criticism
as well as you accept praise.  Only God can judge the
real you.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may not be upset by the judgment of
others.  I pray that I may let God be the judge of the
real me.

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Hazelden Foundation.  No portion of this publication may
be reproduced in any manner without the written
permission of Hazelden.

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Today's Thought
MARCH 30

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.
Melody Beattie ©

Experiment

Experiment. Try something new. Try stepping out.

We have been held back too long. We have held ourselves back 
too long.

As children, many of us were deprived of the right to experiment. 
Many of us are depriving ourselves of the right to experiment and 
learn as adults.

Now is the time to experiment. It is an important part of recovery. 
Let yourself try things. Let yourself try something new. Yes, you 
will make mistakes. But from those mistakes, you can learn what 
your values are.

Some things we just won't like. That's good. Then we'll know a 
little more about who we are and what we don't like.

Some things we will like, they will work with our values. They 
will work with who we are, and we will discover something 
important and life enriching.

There is a quiet time in recovery, a time to stand still and heal, 
a time to give ourselves a cooling off time. This is a time of 
introspection and healing. It is an important time. We deal 
with our issues.

There also comes a time when it is equally important to 
experiment, to begin to test the water.

Recovery does not equal abstention from life. Recovery means 
learning to live and learning to live fully. Recovery means 
exploration, investigation, and experimentation.

Recovery means being done with the rigid, shame-based rules 
from the past, and formulating healthy values based on self-love, 
love for others, and living in harmony with this world.

Experiment. Try something new. Maybe you won't like it. Maybe 
you'll make a mistake. But maybe you will like it, and maybe 
you'll discover something you love.

Today, I will give myself permission to experiment in life. I will 
stop rigidly holding myself back, and I will jump in when jumping 
in feels right. God, help me let go of my need to deprive myself 
of being alive.

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It’s Not About the Horse

by Wyatt Webb • Tucson, AZ

The following is excerpted with permission from the new book, It's Not About the Horse, published by Hay House, Inc., available at all bookstores, by phone: 800-654-5126, or via the Internet at www.hayhouse.com

If you want to deal with your demons, it’s appropriate to make a pit stop at a place as hot as hell—Tucson, Arizona in the summertime. It’s 100-plus degrees, with dark, ominous clouds erasing the Santa Catalina mountaintops in the distance. It’s the monsoon season, which means big storms. But for the five women and two men sitting on hay bales in front of Wyatt Webb, it appears that there are bigger storms brewing.

"My name is Wyatt," he says to the seven people in front of him. "Welcome to the Equine Experience."

A sweet, musty smell of horse lingers in the air, and for no reason at all, a 1,300 pound chestnut gelding named Monsoon rears and tears off in a farting, sweating gallop. This is his way of welcoming people. Monsoon’s massive body, thick mane and tail fly through the air and he releases a high-pitched scream that rips into your eardrums and rattles your insides.

Wyatt is just as much in awe of this beautiful animal as everybody else is. He tells the group, "That’s sheer joy–an emotion that’s somewhat foreign to most of us humans on a daily basis."

By the looks on their faces, these people are ready for an experience of joy. They don’t appear to have felt it for some time. They miss the feeling and that’s why they’re here.

Wyatt starts the session by telling these folks that he’s not here to change anybody’s life. "I don’t have the power to do so," he says. "I don’t have your answers. I’m not here to argue with or discredit traditional therapeutic modalities. I’m not accusing anybody of doing a shitty job or saying that traditional psychotherapy isn’t helpful. But I certainly hope that we can add to whatever already exists in the therapy world as you know it."

Wyatt then shares what Logan, the counselor who helped save his life, his mind and his very soul 22 years ago told him: If you’re to achieve the peace, joy, and spiritual fulfillment that you want so badly, it depends upon one thing and one thing only–your willingness to simply do something different.

Wyatt has been a practicing therapist for a number of years, but his tools don’t involve a leather couch and his helpers don’t arrive in suits or high heels. "You’re going to clean some hooves," he tells the group, "and you’re going to groom the horse.

"How you relate to this animal will tell us what you’ve learned over the course of your lifetime concerning how you relate to all living things. Your basic training has come from learning how to treat people." He pauses and adds, "Remember one thing: It’s not about the horse. I can teach you a few basic skills that will keep you safe in any barn in the world, but what we’re here to look at is what you’ve learned over the course of your lifetime that either works for or against you in your relationships."

He stops for a second and then continues. "Keep in mind that you’ve been conditioned to be externally focused in all of your relationships. This is one of the true impediments to our being able to learn anything about ourselves. Let me ask you this: How much time do you spend during the day wondering what others are thinking and feeling, and concocting stories about why they’re behaving as they do? See, as long as I’m focused on you in such a manner, it will be impossible for me to connect with you because I’m not present with myself.

"So, what I suggest you do is pay attention to what you’re thinking and pay attention to what you’re feeling. Know that these two things dictate the way you live your life. By focusing your attention internally as opposed to externally, you’ll be able to be present enough to connect with any other living thing, which will also cause you to take responsibility for your life and how you live it.

"I won’t judge you, but I will observe. I pledge to tell you the truth, to be kind, but sometimes to be blunt. Together, let’s examine the stories you’re making up to see how many of them are based in reality. Personally, prior to the age of 36, almost every story I had was based in a lie."

He makes it clear that the person dealing with the horse is the one who tells the story. And
most of the stories he sees have one thing in common: Pain. Most of this pain is rooted in self-doubt and fear. For instance, one man in the group says, "I can’t remember when I didn’t hurt. I think it’s the world that messes us up."

Wyatt turns to the group and says, "We’ve been imprinted. We’re born being called ‘bundles of joy.’ Well, that’s true. Babies generally are full of joy—they’re born happy and remain so unless they’re hungry or experiencing some discomfort. Once that’s alleviated, they’re right back in the joy state. They’re at one with everything when they arrive on the planet. They run on pure emotion.

"They don’t know what it means to doubt themselves or to be afraid until about five days into the trip, when they begin to soak up the energy of the adults," Wyatt says. "Then they feel the inconsistency. At this point in time, welcome to a world full of scary people.

"Every culture I’ve ever been subjected to appears to be frightened," he explains. "I’ve been working as a psychotherapist for 20 years. If I could boil down every problem that ever walked through any office that I’ve occupied– and this includes when I’ve been alone in the office– every human being suffers from two things in varying degrees of intensity, two things that are taught to us. They’re called self-doubt and fear.

"There’s the fear of physical harm and of emotional harm. There’s the fear of not being good enough. There’s the constant fear of being discovered. Anyone who really wants to grow, expand and know who they are has to travel uncharted territories all the time. So that kind of person has
to live in a world of I don’t know, which is scary, but it’s the only place where you learn anything. What you always find on the opposite side of fear and self-doubt is joy. Joy is our birthright– we’re born with it. But it gets taken away from us and we have to go back and reclaim it."

Wyatt shakes his head and tells a story about what he learned from Monsoon about a year
ago. "I was riding, and I was changing gaits– transitioning from the walk to the trot to the canter. The walk to the trot– no problem. But even after ten years of riding, the power of the canter still scares me. I tried to push Monsoon into a canter twice, and both times I miscued him. My fear had me off balance– literally and figuratively. I eased back to the trot and I got frustrated.

"I was about to move into a canter for the third time, and again I felt that I was off balance. This time, I was determined to win. I said, ‘The hell with it,’ and cued him anyway. Monsoon shifted his massive frame. I was so off that most of my weight shifted forward, which in the horse
world is called throwing the horse on the forehand. This was his cue to stop. And he did. I flew over his head about 20 feet onto the ground. If I hadn’t had a helmet on, it would have killed me. I hit the ground with a bang!

"In that humiliating, spirit-crushing, bone-aching, ah-ha! moment, a light bulb went off in my head. I thought to myself, I finally get it. Anytime I’m in a relationship with any living thing and I have the need to win, the possibility for connection and closeness is over. All I ever wanted was that closeness and connection. In fact, I think we’re all homesick for it."

He goes on to explain that he’s never had that same issue with Monsoon again. "I’ve had that problem with a few people," Wyatt laughs, "but I’ve been able to reign it in because when I find myself trying to win, it’s time to stop. Because somebody has to lose. This whole culture is set up this way. We’ve got to win, which means we’re going to lose. It means that we cannot even hope to connect with each other."

For Wyatt, it’s all about connection, and the first step to healing is connecting with a horse. The issues that show up when we move to connect include mental, physical and emotional abuse– not limited to marriages on the rocks, parent-child relationships gone bad, and much worse concerns including rape and abandonment.

The group is brought into a large arena and each person is told to choose one of the six large, inquisitive horses waiting for them. Next to each animal is a small bucket with tools to clean the horses’ hooves and various other grooming utensils associated with preparing a horse for saddling. Wyatt tells everyone to approach his or her horse and greet the animal at its shoulder.

He takes one young man aside and suggests that he stop rubbing the horse for dear life.

"Try to leave a little fur on the horse, because the sun is gonna come out and I don’t want him to get burned," he says quietly to the young man. "You also don’t need to sweet-talk him."

"I’m trying to get him to like me, so he’ll cooperate," says the man.

"So," Wyatt asks, "is this one of your learned behaviors? Is your motto: If I’m nice to you, then you must be nice to me back?"

"I guess I always try extra hard to get people to like me," says the young man. "I figure if I’m the nicest person in the whole room, people will have to be nice to me back."

"Let me suggest to you the fallacy behind that one," he explains. "You’re not really being nice to anyone. You’re being manipulative. You’re only acting nice in the hopes of preventing people from rejecting you. True kindness comes with no charge. Later on, the universe just pays you back."

The mini-dramas being played out on this sandy desert floor can easily become much more serious, though. For example, Katie, a young lawyer whose parents abandoned her and sent her to live in various foster homes is afraid of her horse because she’s scared to death of being rejected again.

"If you walk through your fear that something must be wrong with you, then what you always find on the other side is that there’s nothing wrong with you. And there’s nothing to be afraid of," he tells her.

"What happens then?" the woman asks, sobbing.

"When you get to that other side, there’s only one thing waiting– joy."

Wyatt Webb survived 15 years in the music industry as an entertainer. Realizing he was killing himself due to drug and alcohol addiction, Wyatt sought help. He began what is now a 20 year career as a therapist. He is the founder of the Equine Experience at Miraval Life in Balance™, one of the world’s top resorts, located in Tucson, AZ. Contact him through Hay House, www.hayhouse.com

 


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Day At A Time*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Belonging

You test yourself with memory prompts
write your day in a book
You leave signs of your passing where you can
to secure a piece of illusive timespace
however fleeting, however scant

As if attempting to mark space or time
will guarantee the belonging is authentic

Be real to yourself
and you will belong there
Be real with others
and you will belong with them
They will belong with you

The memory is the bonding, you see:
An assemblage of touch, glances, unstated understandings
The mental, spiritual, heartfelt bonds
formed for belonging
Those that remain in preserves/reserves
are not of the physical dimension

The belonging searches to live
with intense expression inside
in real time, in real space
where it counts
it lives in the soul

Listen to the belonging of you
to yourself
to the people of unconditional love
they belong to you

Listen and be long in the duration
in the taking in
of the gift of its security...
be...
long...
there..

Love
Stella
© 2001 Stella Raymonde Savoie Johnson
stellar...@soulopen.com

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*First Things First*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Love truth, but pardon error.   -- Voltaire

Often, we don't like to admit it when we are wrong, even though simple logic
tells us no one can be right all the time. And much of what we often argue
about as right or wrong has nothing to do with right and wrong. Is it right
or wrong to wear a red dress rather than a blue one? Or to take the bus
rather than the train to work?

Life is too short to always try to be right, or to put everything into the
category of right or wrong. We save ourselves a lot of grief and pain when
we are able to admit we made a mistake, and avoid using the labels "right"
and "wrong" when they just don't apply to the situation. We find great
freedom in letting most things just be what they are, without a judgment
from us. And we learn to love ourselves and those around us the same way.

Today help me to admit when I am wrong, and not gloat when I am right. May I
not see everything in terms of right or wrong. May I avoid being
self-righteous.

from the book: Body, Mind, and Spirit by Anonymous

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Easy Does It*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The Now

Imagine you are a sycamore seed
the wind has blown you far away
you land on barren soil.
For years you try to grow but you can't

suddenly rain comes aplenty,
the soil gets all that is necessary for a fruitful life.
The shrub grows and grows.
it is no longer small and insignificant
but large and very beautiful.
It dwarfs all that once dwarfed it.

Liken your life to this shrub,
with out god and your faith
you are just a stunted shrub.
God is the sun and God is the rain.
so that you can go forward and grow.
If you rise above all that used to surround and dwarf you
it can not be a bad thing. it is just you, being really you.

Some people have the sun and the rain but they fail to
put out the roots deep enough to blossom.
Do not fear of what you cannot control
have faith in the now.
It is all we have.
And let not the fear of fear hurt you.

To arrive somewhere means you must have journeyed.
So find who you are ,then you will know,
what you were really meant to be.
Howard
howi...@netscapeonline.co.uk

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Live And Let Live*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Your Destiny

When all is said and done
Your at your end of your road
Whose path will you follow
What changes will you make to carry your load
Are you afraid to make another mistake
You have to have faith
To get along
God will bless you
With a new song
Don't say you are blind
Don't say you can't see
For the road you travel
Is your destiny
Stop
Drop
To your knees
And pray
Ask yourself what you want to say
You are welcomed here any day
Give it to God
Leave the results in His hand
He is the one who will always understand
Your motives are yours alone
Your love shall always
Be at your home

Daniel M Corkery
9/14/2000
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep The Focus On You*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Usula K. LeGuin

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Let God and Let Go*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit
makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut.
It's munching on what isn't.
Barry Neil Kaufman

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If we are to experience the greater oneness with the Spirit inwardly,
then we must remain open to support our connection outwardly as well.
We must be willing to do unto others what God,
though the Spirit, would do through us as the expression.
John Morton (From: The Blessings Already Are)

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To Believe*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Meeting makers make it.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Look For The Beauty*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Those who make meetings regularly stay clean.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Today Is A Gift*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Many meetings ~ Many chances
Few meetings ~ Few chances
No meetings ~ No chances

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep Stepping*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Those people who don't make meetings aren't around
to see what happens to people who don't make meetings.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Stay In The Light*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

There is a difference between being at a  meeting
and being in a meeting

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Promise, Many Gifts*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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Created in 1997 , "12 Step Soul Food for the Spirit" is intended to give readers , inspiring and thoughtful messages. To help fulfill our primary purpose which is to carry the message to the alcoholic/addict who still suffers. A spiritual adventure, a journey inwards this has a vision of opening and touching, each and everyone, with the Loving Power and Presence of the Spirit within." We invite you to share the writings by forwarding today's message to others. Share "12 Step Soul Food for the Spirit" with friends and loved ones: Please keep passing this along to online recovery friends  "We can only keep what we have by giving it away." 

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By the grace of God and through your efforts of passing on this email, we are reaching many recovering people in different areas of the world. If you are receiving this, from a country outside of the USA please send me an email and tell me where you are receiving this. So far we reaching over 17,000 recovering people in 66 countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada , Columbia, Costa Rica, China , Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Guatemala, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mali West Africa, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia , Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa , Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, U.S.A., Venezuela, Wales, West Indies, Zimbabwe.

Even if your country is listed please email me, and let me know where you are from

When we hug we pray,
Stay in the Light, 
In loving service,
Scott H. from N.Y. ~ cleandate 10/27/88
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       ==  ==      "we are each of us angels 
  <^\()/\()/^>       with but one wing,  
      \/  \/  \/       and can only fly by 
       /  \/  \        embracing each other"
       `""``""`

Scott’s Daily Blog
http://intherooms.com/younmenhp

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