Focus wheel - name the issue or feeling

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Old 03-17-2019, 07:37 AM
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Focus wheel - name the issue or feeling

Meditating this morning, something that needed to be recognized and named came up.

The power of "name that" allows space to explore meanings and synonyms. My Al-Anon sponsor and home group taught me to allow awareness of these things, make use of dictionaries and take time sitting with individual words. Sometimes taking the Serenity Prayer and saying one word several times on each inhale/exhale through several breaths would start transforming how I felt and open my mind-heart connection in new ways.

Learning more recently about focus wheels, I draw a circle and outside the circle I put the negative topic. Inside the circle I write the opposite -- positive -- word that is healthy for me to focus on.

I'm enjoying practicing this.
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Old 03-17-2019, 07:44 AM
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My focus today, after creating a positive quote to answer the negative I had become aware of:

"There will be expected good surprises and a sense of gain."

In this exercise I honor and allow all my feelings, then get to practice shifting gears mentally.

I'm grateful for this space to voice these things. It's a huge part of these things becoming quick, easy changes.



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Old 03-17-2019, 07:48 AM
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Mango,

Sounds like a good place.

I am well today mainly because,of this place.

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Old 03-17-2019, 08:08 AM
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Meditating this morning, something that needed to be recognized and named came up.

The power of "name that" allows space to explore meanings and synonyms. My Al-Anon sponsor and home group taught me to allow awareness of these things, make use of dictionaries and take time sitting with individual words. Sometimes taking the Serenity Prayer and saying one word several times on each inhale/exhale through several breaths would start transforming how I felt and open my mind-heart connection in new ways.

Learning more recently about focus wheels, I draw a circle and outside the circle I put the negative topic. Inside the circle I write the opposite -- positive -- word that is healthy for me to focus on.

I'm enjoying practicing this.
Thanks for sharing.
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Old 08-17-2019, 09:44 AM
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Inside my focus wheel today:

Curiosity, joy, happiness, relaxation, success.
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Old 08-17-2019, 10:11 AM
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Inside my focus wheel: authenticity and spirituality 🤗
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Old 08-19-2019, 07:39 AM
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As usual Mango, I love this! I truly believe you create new pathways in your brain when you practice things like this. Thank you for sharing friend!
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Old 08-26-2019, 08:37 AM
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"This is a program about emotional sobriety, maintaining and, at times, developing a sense of who you are while allowing people to be themselves."
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Old 08-29-2019, 01:37 PM
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"There will be expected good surprises and a sense of gain."


This is my mantra today.
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Feeling: disturbed

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