JFT May 31 - Keep It Simple
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JFT May 31 - Keep It Simple
May 31
Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us who’ve dodged it for so long. When we stopped using drugs, many of us came face to face with a world that was confusing, even terrifying. Looking at life and all its details, all at once, may be overwhelming. We think that maybe we can’t handle life after all and that it’s useless to try. These thoughts feed themselves, and pretty soon we’re paralyzed by the imagined complexity of life.
Happily, we don’t have to fix everything at once. Solving a single problem seems possible, so we take them one at a time. We take care of each moment as it comes, and then take care of the next moment as it comes. We learn to stay clean just for today, and we approach our problems the same way. When we live life in each moment, it’s not such a terrifying prospect. One breath at a time, we can stay clean and learn to live.
Just for today: I will keep it simple by living in this moment only. Today, I will tackle only today’s problems; I will leave tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow.
Copyright © 1991-2008 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Keep it simple
“We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment. When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.”
Basic Text, p. 96
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Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us who’ve dodged it for so long. When we stopped using drugs, many of us came face to face with a world that was confusing, even terrifying. Looking at life and all its details, all at once, may be overwhelming. We think that maybe we can’t handle life after all and that it’s useless to try. These thoughts feed themselves, and pretty soon we’re paralyzed by the imagined complexity of life.
Happily, we don’t have to fix everything at once. Solving a single problem seems possible, so we take them one at a time. We take care of each moment as it comes, and then take care of the next moment as it comes. We learn to stay clean just for today, and we approach our problems the same way. When we live life in each moment, it’s not such a terrifying prospect. One breath at a time, we can stay clean and learn to live.
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Just for today: I will keep it simple by living in this moment only. Today, I will tackle only today’s problems; I will leave tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow.
Copyright © 1991-2008 by Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Identifying fear in my life is important because when I fear I run and this running away from things has caused countless problems in my life.
I couldnt even identify fear in my life prior to using and would have denied it if someone had told me how reactive I was to fear.
Now I realise that there is peace to living in the moment and try to practice this as much as possible because it creates the comfort I crave.
It helps not being scared of work because that character defect can create mountains out of molehills so quickly that nothing gets acheived ever except some very good excuse making.
I now have a healthy fear of being a flake - no thanks thats not for me. Things to aspire towards. Its all a part of becoming the best possible version of myself I can be but before that happens I have to know myself and that is where the steps are helping me.
Thanks for letting me share.
I couldnt even identify fear in my life prior to using and would have denied it if someone had told me how reactive I was to fear.
Now I realise that there is peace to living in the moment and try to practice this as much as possible because it creates the comfort I crave.
It helps not being scared of work because that character defect can create mountains out of molehills so quickly that nothing gets acheived ever except some very good excuse making.
I now have a healthy fear of being a flake - no thanks thats not for me. Things to aspire towards. Its all a part of becoming the best possible version of myself I can be but before that happens I have to know myself and that is where the steps are helping me.
Thanks for letting me share.
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