Thoughts To Help You On Your Recovery Path

[MajestyJo]

These may be posted in other sections of the site. Putting them all together and posting them as they are good things to remember during the holidays.

The Twelve Steps and Traditions, which originated with AA, is applicable to all areas of our life.

I do have a disease, an allergy. I don't metabolize alcohol and drugs the way normal people do. I have a obsessive/compulsive disorder.

www.anxietybc.com/resources/ocd.php

http://www.addictionsandrecovery.org...-a-disease.htm

blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2...brain-disease/

All of my life, I looked out side of myself for some person, place or thing to make me feel better. I had to find that happiness and love from within myself.

Many people can't see addiction as a disease. It is a mental obsession and a physical allergy, and we don't metabolize things as others do. We can't do it ourselves, people can't figure out why you just can't stop and say "No!"

I was at dis-ease within myself, and I looked out of myself for many years. What I had to do was go within and find my true self and connect with the God of my understanding.
Step Three asks us to listen for the quiet and in the stillness hear the direction our Higher Power has for us today. When we pray, we need to find that quiet to hear the answers. When my mind is busy, all I can hear is my own chatter and endless obsessing about what I want and what I think I need. I need to get out of my own way so the voice of reason can shine through.

Conscious contact can be as simple as doing the do things you need to do in today.

Meditating with God and Creation is a sure way for me to be balanced, grounded and connected to the God of my understanding.