Easier in The Long Run

[Ann]

It may be a difficult challenge to find a way to let go of your anxieties. Yet it is far easier than allowing those anxieties to continue poisoning your spirit as they multiply upon themselves.

You may have trouble letting go of your need to continually judge others. Doing so, however, will be easier than having to deal with the growing burdens that those judgments impose upon your own life.

It can certainly be difficult to tune out all of life's distractions in order to focus your energy on what truly matters. Yet it is much easier than living with the emptiness of a life without direction.

What may not initially seem the easiest path can often turn out to be so. The sooner and more sincerely you deal with life's challenges, the easier you make things for yourself in the long run.

There is always a temptation to take the easiest way out at the moment. By not giving in to that temptation, you set yourself up to enjoy an easier, more fulfilling way forward as time goes on.

Look down the road and make your choices based on what is best in terms of the big picture of your life. By so doing, you can build a life that continues to get better.

-- Ralph Marston

[nutz]

alrighty...alrighty ....i'll do the simple excercizes.
Take 15 min each daY.

This is Y

what often happens is that either our mind talk or our feelings
can in themselve become another event. We may interpret
the original event with negative mind talk, but in addition usually
ALSO interpret both our mindtalk and the resulting with further
negative mindtalk and feeling. Thus we may react to an event,
but also react to our reaction. For example, we may feel angery
about a situation, but then tell ourselves that we
"shouldn't feel angery" and then feel ashame.

Thus sometimes our mind talk feeds on itself, creating a series
of events, interpretation.....mmmm (delusional).
When such a chain reaction occurs, when we level one criticism
after another at ourselves, we experience the kind of dejection
or depression from which it is difficult to extract ourselve.

In addition...
We assumed many of our beliefs when we were children.
They wreak havoc in our lives when we are 20,30, or until
we die......unless we stop the process of telling ourselves negative
things that are essentially untrue.

thanks Ann

[Ann]

Well said, Nutz, all three of those examples can come into play and cause us anxiety.

Yesterday I spent much of the day trying to find a solution to a situation that has presented itself to me. I spent time, worked on this, thought I had an answer then realized it wasn't going to work...and instead of continuing, I allowed myself to get wrapped up in the problem rather than persevering with the solution. I was very off balance last night, had lost all sense of direction in what I should do and woke up with a migraine today.

Rather than continue working on this, I prayed on it and took a nap for about two hours. When I awoke, I set the "negative self-talk" aside and made room for new ideas to flow, and within one hour I found a solution that tickles me pink.

My point is that when I clear my mind of anxieties, and face my problem head on with clarity and positive thinking, the solution reveals itself to me. Old habits die hard, but the more I practice this, the easier it becomes.

Hugs,

[nutz]

Ann,
the stuff you've writing are great tools
and they makesense to me or are clearer to me.
It's like the piece of puzzle are coming together.

I know i'm on the right track,
beucase I can't focus on what I'm reading or doing.
It's like my old habits, thinking..or my disease knows this
is good for me. My brain gose into denial mode of the truth
or salutions.

So I draw from my own experince of recovery.
My brain did the samething when I first started reading
the AA,NA 12&12...etc. I had to read it over and over
again just to be able to reflect or grasp the meaning of
the material i was reading.

The excercize in a book I'm reading is actually simple,
but good lord...my pen wieghts about 2 tons at the moment.

[indigo]

Thanks Ann I love your posts.

[Ann]

Thank you Nutz and Indigo. I learn a lot myself by posting these readings, and having some dialogue helps me sort out how what has been written applies to me. It's funny what we can learn about ourselves by just typing and letting the thoughts flow.

Hugs to both of you,