Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Healthy thinking
Knowledge of “the answers” never made anyone relapse. It was failing to practice “the answers” known. — Anonymous
The quality of our lives will always depend on the way we think. When anxiety, stress, and tension begin to threaten our hard-won peace of mind, we must not blame our retreat from serenity on outside forces. We can get back in line with comfortable living when we remind ourselves that we have been thinking wrong about something.
It may be complacency: “I’ve got all the right answers.” Perhaps we’ve been thinking selfishly or suffering twinges of jealousy and envy. Are we viewing others with anger or resentment, being fearful of falling short of goals? We learn in recovery to examine our thinking.
Positive thinking is my guarantee that serenity will continue to make me willing to accept myself as the author of my own attitudes, not a victim of outside forces.
Hazelden Foundation
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