Language of Letting Go - Nov. 25 - Awareness
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Language of Letting Go - Nov. 25 - Awareness
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
Awareness
When we first become aware of a problem, a situation, or a feeling, we may react with anxiety or fear. There is no need to fear awareness. No need.
Awareness is the first step toward positive change and growth. It's the first step toward solving the problem, or getting the need met, the first step toward the future. It's how we focus on the next lesson.
Awareness is how life, the Universe, and our Higher Power get our attention and prepare us for change. The process of becoming changed begins with awareness. Awareness, acceptance, and change - that's the cycle. We can accept the temporary discomfort from awareness because that's how we're moved to a better place. We can accept the temporary discomfort because we can trust God, and ourselves.
Today, I will be grateful for any awareness I encounter. I will display gratitude, peace, and dignity when life gets my attention. I will remember that it's okay to accept the temporary discomfort from awareness because I can trust that it's my Higher Power moving me forward.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
Awareness
When we first become aware of a problem, a situation, or a feeling, we may react with anxiety or fear. There is no need to fear awareness. No need.
Awareness is the first step toward positive change and growth. It's the first step toward solving the problem, or getting the need met, the first step toward the future. It's how we focus on the next lesson.
Awareness is how life, the Universe, and our Higher Power get our attention and prepare us for change. The process of becoming changed begins with awareness. Awareness, acceptance, and change - that's the cycle. We can accept the temporary discomfort from awareness because that's how we're moved to a better place. We can accept the temporary discomfort because we can trust God, and ourselves.
Today, I will be grateful for any awareness I encounter. I will display gratitude, peace, and dignity when life gets my attention. I will remember that it's okay to accept the temporary discomfort from awareness because I can trust that it's my Higher Power moving me forward.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
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Much like the 3 C's (Didn't Cause it, can't control it and can't cure it) I believe in the three A'S...awareness, acceptance and action.
I must first be aware of my problem, at this point I don't need a solution, just awareness of what it is and what it does to me. Then, when I remember that I cannot change others or their behaviour, I come to acceptance. Like it or not, it is what it is. And that's when I can take healthy action for myself, moving past the pain and obstacles doing what I need to do to stay healthy and well.
It all begins with awareness, facing what we may not want to face knowing that denial is no longer a place we can hide.
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I must first be aware of my problem, at this point I don't need a solution, just awareness of what it is and what it does to me. Then, when I remember that I cannot change others or their behaviour, I come to acceptance. Like it or not, it is what it is. And that's when I can take healthy action for myself, moving past the pain and obstacles doing what I need to do to stay healthy and well.
It all begins with awareness, facing what we may not want to face knowing that denial is no longer a place we can hide.
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I am aware now that my daughter really has a chronic pain problem, not sure yet how to deal with it, or exactly in what capacity I can help her...I didn't take her situation serious because she has had ongoing crisis' in her life, I thought this was just another temporay problem...I've been for the most part able to let go of my son's drinking problem, so now I need to do the same with my daughter and trust God with the situation...
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