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Luckyv2 10-04-2005 10:09 AM

Meditation Of The Day/Day By Day Readings
 
October 4
Trying to Escape

In an attempt to get of the box we found ourselves in, many of us tried to geographic escape. We moved from place to place. Invariably, we found ourselves in pretty much the same, if not a worse, situation.

We knew we had real emotional and material problems, but we weren't aware that using chemicals was actually causing much of our distress. The chemicals inducced a state of mind that led to behavior patterns that wouldn't have occurred had we not been "out of our minds". Have I stopped trying to escape?
Higher Power, help me to know that it's not my location that makes
the difference in my life, it's what I'm working with inside.

Today, instead of seeking escape, I will try to improve my situation by:

tink360 10-04-2005 01:55 PM

It makes total sense. My fathers in the military and in every move i made i always thought it was my time for a new beggining and in the end i always did end up worse than before. and you know what i found funny was that some people even made it game of who could get the new girl to relapse again and i used to take advantage of it. wow the power of realization...I almost made the same mistake here...thanks vic for the thread


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