September 16 - Emotional Balance

[margo]

"Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out."
Basic Text p.45

Though each of us defines "emotional balance" a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless of what may be happening around us. To some, it might mean an understanding of our emotions that allows us to respond, not react, to our feelings. It can mean that we experience our feelings as intensely as we can while also moderating their excessive expression.
Emotional balance comes with practice in prayer and meditation. We get quiet and share our thoughts and hopes and concerns with the God of our understanding. Then we listen for guidance, awaiting the power to act on that direction.

Eventually, our skills in maintaining near-balance get better, and the wild up-and-down emotional swings we used to experience begin to settle. We develop an ability to let others feel their feelings; we have no need to judge them. And we fully embrace our own personal range of emotions.

Just for today: Through regular prayer and meditation, I will discover what emotional balance means to me.
pg. 270

Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous©

[lonlion]

Thanks Margo, I am an have been working towards the emotional balance for a while, with success. It's one of my biggest challenges, but I do see progress.
I have learned not to react asap, but calm my self and pray for it to pass or be put in proper perspective.
One of my wonderful nurses in treatment centre told me to stop making a duck into a moose. She encouraged me to go out and buy a little plastic duck, and everytime my mind would turn something into a moose, to look at the duck, and remind myself its just a duck.
Sounds simplistic and perhaps a little lame to some, but hey, it has worked and continues to work for me.
Thanks