The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
Todays's c2c speaks of those moments when we become aware of how fast and chaotic our thinking has become, filled with memories and resentments and guilt, and projections about the future.
When we recognise this chaotic thinking and take the time to reach out and talk about it, it tends to all fall back into perspective and become managable.
The reading reminds us to put spiritual space between ourselves and our "problems" after acknowledging them and that recognising our powerlessness over our problems is the first step towards managing them.
"When we bring things out into the light, they lose their power over us" In All Our affairs
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Seems to be a lesson I need to keep learning, that a problem shared is a problem halved and that by talking about things they lose their power and become more managable. Recently I've been reminded on a couple of occasions how vastly improved my outlook can become purely by talking it out with someone rather than keeping everything circling around inside where it just gets louder and crazier and more powerful!
Thank HP for program friends and this reminder to discuss the crazy mind-chaos with them before it becomes unbearable
-- Edited by MissM on Saturday 1st of October 2016 05:00:24 AM
Thanks for sharing your thought Ms.M. This is an important concept of the alanon progam and one I have embraced from early on. My life was unmanageable ( as the First Step suggests) not because I had unmanageable, huge problems to deal with, but because my thoughts would go around my mind in circular motion never stopping-- always reminding me that disaster was around the corner and that I could not handle it. I kept all these thoughts deep within and never shared them with anyone. The pain of them brought me to alanon and it is here I read that page and knew I was not alone.
On my way to work each day I would recited the serenity prayer and the slogans over and over in my mind and wonder of wonders, I arrived at work refreshed and ready to solve the problems of the day. I would call my sponsor as well. This became my daily routine and then i noticed that the thoughts were becoming less and less until one day they had disappeared. How great was that!!
Keeping the focus on myself, using alanon tools, reading the literature and sharing , are all fantastic recovery tools that I call on each day. One day at a time my life improved.
(((Good Morning))) and thanks for sharing. One of the coping mechanisms I was taught was to repress and deny. That doesn't fit for talking about things. It's only because of alanon and you beautiful people that have been down this path and are lighting the way for others that I am learning to talk about it. I also repeat the serenity prayer like mad when I feel myself slipping into stupid thinking. Thanks Betty for sharing that they do diminish with practice. I suppose as a noobie, I want recovery yesterday and have been impatient about the process. One day at a time Bern lol. Thanks again. Enjoy your day ladies.
Thanks Missm for the daily and your service,I love that saying ,to bring our situation/problems into the light then it loses its power,wow what great insight ,I knew when ever I'd share anything it did lose its power,good we have the daily and reassurance of how it works in our lives......hugs lu
