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May 25

“Good” and “bad” feelings

“A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow.”

Most of us seem to unconsciously judge what happens in our lives each day as good or bad, success or failure. We tend to feel happy about the “good” and angry, frustrated, or guilty about the “bad.” Good and bad feelings, though, often have little to do with what’s truly good or bad for us. We may learn more from our failures than our successes, especially if failure has come from taking a risk.

Attaching value judgments to our emotional reactions ties us to our old ways of thinking. We can change the way we think about the incidents of everyday life, viewing them as opportunities for growth, not as good or bad. We can search for lessons rather than assigning value. When we do this, we learn something from each day. Our daily Tenth Step is an excellent tool for evaluating the day’s events and learning from both success and failure.


Just for today: I am offered an opportunity to apply the principles of recovery so that I will learn and grow. When I learn from life’s events, I succeed.



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Africa Life

Wow I am only living this at the moment. I am just becoming aware of my feelings and am trying not to allow them to take over my appreciation of my experience. I feel the need to mature emotionally and still feel a little funky but I try not to react because I dont trust my feelings. I feel like I am at the emotional age of 15 (which is about the time I started using) and have to catch up another 15 years in a hurry.

All in all I have to forgive myself for who I am and still acknowledge that I have feelings but not all these feelings are valid.

I have a feeling that I am in the dark on this one.

I think that I will post a thread and see what comes back to me.

Thanks for letting me share.