Emotions 10/5/03

[DolphinBlue]

Sometimes I think I'm the luckiest person in the world. There's nothing better than having work you really care about. Sometimes I think my greatest problem is lack of confidence. I'm scared, and I think that's healthy.
-Jane Fonda

We each vacillate between feeling confident on some days, lucky on others, and yet frequently scared on others. It's very human to vacillate. We need not be anxious because our emotions refuse to stand still.

Changing emotions are part of the process of normal living. And changing emotions reflect an involvement with the moment. Situations do touch us, as they should. And our responses will reveal our emotional involvement, as they should. We can cherish the variety of our emotions. They enrich us. But they may also create problems, if they go unchecked.

We need to maintain a balance. Confidence, certainly desirable, can become overconfidence and thus complacency. Confidence needs humility to temper it. Fear makes us cautious, and that's good; but too much can immobilize us. Being in charge of our emotions makes them work for us.

Emotions can energize me and keep me involved with the moment. They can also control me. It's my decision to be in charge.

From the book: "Each Day a New Beginning - Daily Meditations for Women"

[Paulie]

We need to maintain a balance. Confidence, certainly desirable, can become overconfidence and thus complacency. Confidence needs humility to temper it. Fear makes us cautious, and that's good; but too much can immobilize us. Being in charge of our emotions makes them work for us.

That is so true. I have gotten over confident with my program and become complacent in the past. What happened was I became miserable in my own skin, just like when I was using. But this time I did not use drugs to numb that miseralbe feeling, I actually had to feel it and being uncomfortable and miserable in your own skin clean is undescribable. .

My SO says I wear my emotions on my sleeve, I take that as a compliment today. I wear them on my sleeve, but I try not to over react to them...that is huge for me. Most of the time, I am not perfect, my emotions do not control me, an awesome gift of recovery.

[Juls]

My emotions have been something that has plagued me at times, but now, whether it's due to recovery, (most likely) or something else, I am able to handle them alot better, and I don't get so emtional over things, although I am excitable. LOL

Juls