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JFT November 28 Being ourselves
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"To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."Basic Text, p. 35=Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about humiliation, but humility is a new idea. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. But thats not what humility is at all....
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JFT November 27 Seeking God's help
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"At times during our recovery, the decision to ask for God's help is our greatest source of strength and courage."Basic Text, p. 26=When we take the Third Step, we decide to allow a loving Higher Power to guide us and care for us in our daily lives. We make the decision to allow this guidance...
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Emotional Relapse
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My god. I never realized how powerful emotions are. Just reaching out these boards. I have about 11 months clean. Life has been through hell past year. Just wondering if anyone was awake to sorta vent to. Sponsor is asleep. Didn't want to really talk on the phone. I rather text.
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Thanksgiving
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Today I'm thankful for another day Clean, 26 days Clean this month, 10 months 26 days Clean this year, and by the Grace of God through the Power of NA I'll have 35 years tomorrow the 27th. NA didn't lie, I never have to use again if I don't want to. It's a choice I didn't have before finding NA.
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JFT November 26 Responsibility
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"A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take the time to appreciate both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow." IP No.8, Just For Today Responsibility, responsibility--the responsibilities of life are everywhere. We're "supposed t...
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JFT November 25 Meditation
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"Quieting the mind through meditation brings an inner peace that brings us into contact with the God within us." Basic Text, p. 45 = As our recovery progresses, we often reflect on what brought us to Narcotics Anonymous in the first place and are able to appreciate how much the q...
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JFT November 24 Gratefully recovering
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"We entertained the thought that staying clean was not paying off, and the old thinking stirred up self-pity, resentment, and anger." Basic Text, p. 98 = There are days when some of us wallow in self-pity. It's easy to do. We may have expectations about how our lives should be in...
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JFT November 23 God's will
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"The relief of 'letting go and letting God' helps us develop a life that is worth living."Basic Text, p. 26=In our addiction, we were afraid of what might happen if we didn't control everything around us. Many of us made up elaborate lies to protect our use of drugs. Some of us manipulat...
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JFT November 22 Foundation first
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"As we begin to function in society, our creative freedom helps us sort our priorities and do the basic things first."Basic Text, p. 83=No sooner do we get clean than some of us begin putting other priorities ahead of our recovery. Careers, families, relationships--all these are p...
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just got 8 weeks up again - after a relapse, gonna pick my key-ring up at the end of this week....
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Just joined the NA* site....checking in with yall, coming through some very stormy weather', good to be here....chat with Ya soon Mik ( Ireland )
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...'back on th'planet ' again!!......... recovery from surgery
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. ...been 'away' a few months,,,thankfully in a good way. .....being a 'good' addict, and having finished the steps., I decided to dive headlong into step 11 material and did 3 1/2 months of work exchange at a meditation, retreat center in NY state. Quite an experience I'd have to say. Half the time I w...
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JFT November 16 Alone no more
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"We gradually and carefully pull ourselves out of the isolation and loneliness of addiction and into the mainstream of life."Basic Text, p. 37=Many of us spent much of our using time alone, avoiding other people--especially people who were not using--at all costs. After years of isol...
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What to be Grateful for.....
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So I was feeling gloomy over having made a bad move or two in a big fishing contest (of all things), and decided I better work on a gratitude list. Any suggestions??
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JFT November 15 Letting go
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"Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live."Basic Text, p. 26=How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. When we a...
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JFT November 14 Not just surviving
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"When we were using, our lives became an exercise in survival. Now we are doing much more living than surviving."Basic Text, p. 52="I'd be better off dead!" A familiar refrain to a practicing addict, and with good reason. All we had to look forward to was more of the same mis...
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JFT November 13 Not perfect
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"We are not going to be perfect. If we were perfect, we would not be human."Basic Text, p. 31=All of us had expectations about life in recovery. Some of us thought recovery would suddenly make us employable or able to do anything in the world we wanted to do. Or maybe we imagined perfect ea...
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JFT November 12 Our own story
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"When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Som...
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JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance
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"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our...
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....when to STEP IN??........
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. ...mannn,, I just heard that my half brother is running out of control. Drinking hard,, apparently suicidal. .....I'm not close with my dad's family,,but amazingly, my past Gfriend ended up moving into the same building ~3 years ago, so there's been some light contact with him through that sit...
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Hong Kong
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I'm going to Hong Kong later this month and wondered if anyone has been to NA meetings there. Are they in English? Are there any you would recommend? Thanks
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JFT November 10 Fear or faith?
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"No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us."Basic Text, p. 14=For many of us, fear was a constant factor in our lives before we came to Narcotics Anonymous. We used because we were afraid to feel emotional or physical pain. Our fear of people and situations gave us a conve...
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JFT November 9 The best laid plans
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"It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but theres a nervous edge to our lau...
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JFT November 8 Freed from insanity
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"Do I believe it would be insane to walk up to someone and say, May I please have a heart attack or a fatal accident?"Basic Text, p. 24=We've heard it said that unless we're in love, we can't remember what love feels like. The same could be said of insanity: Once we're freed of it, we may forge...
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Cautionary tale, Anime warning
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when i was around 11 or possibly 12 the episode of dragonball z where bulma and vegeta begin their relationship was broadcast in my country. i immediately sunk in a deep deep depression. the first time i had been betrayed by a woman. not just any woman. the woman of my dreams. dont say a anime girl cant hur...
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JFT November 7 Feeling God's will
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I sincerely believed that a Higher Power could restore my sanity and that I would stop trying to figure out what God's will was, just accept things for what they were, and be grateful. =The longer we stay clean, the less surely we know what our Higher Powers will for us is--and the less it matters. Kn...
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JFT November 6 Understanding humility
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"Humility is a result of getting honest with ourselves."Basic Text, p. 36=Humility was an idea so foreign to most of us that we ignored it as long as we could. When we first saw the word humbly ahead in Step Seven, we may have figured it meant we had quite a bit of humiliation in store. Pe...
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JFT November 5 God's guidance
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"Our Higher power is accessible to us at all times. We receive guidance when we ask for knowledge of God's will for us. Basic Text p. 92 It's not always easy to make the right decision. This is especially true for addicts learning to live by spiritual principles for the first time. In addiction,...
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JFT November 4 Exchanging love
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"...we give love because it was given so freely to us. New frontiers are open to us as we learn how to love. Love can be the flow of life energy from one person to another." Basic Text, p. 105 = Love given, and love received, is the essence of life itself. It is the universal common denomina...
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JFT November 3 No matter what
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"We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start?" Basic Text, p. 85 = Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now that we're in recovery it's all wonderful. We feel that...
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JFT November 2 Living with unresolved problems
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"It makes a difference to have friends who care if we hurt." Basic Text, p. 54 = For most of our problems, the solution is simple. We call our sponsor, pray, work the steps, or go to a meeting. But what about those situations where the burden is ongoing and there's no end in sight? Most of us...
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