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JFT August 27 Choosing life
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"Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary." Basic Text, p. 15 = Active addiction is a smoldering death-wish. Each of us courted death every time we used. Our lifestyles, too, put us at risk. The life of an addict is sold cheaply with every day and every dose. In...
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JFT August 26 Tenth Step inventory
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"We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Step Ten = A daily Tenth Step keeps us on a sound spiritual footing. While each member asks different questions, some questions have been found to be helpful to almost everyone. Two key Tenth Step q...
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JFT August 25 The Ninth Step--reclaiming life
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"We are achieving freedom from the wreckage of our past."Basic Text, p. 42=When we start the Ninth Step, we've reached an exciting stage in our recovery. The damage done in our lives is what led many of us to seek help in the first place. Now, we have a chance to clean up that wreckage, ame...
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JFT August 24 Seeking God's will
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"We learn to be careful of praying for specific things." Basic Text, p. 46 = In our active addiction, we usually did not pray for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry it out. On the contrary, most of our prayers were for God to get us out of the mess we had made for ourselves. ...
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JFT August 23 Decision-making
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"Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse. Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking." Basic Text, p. 90 = Life is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences. When we were using, our decisions were usually driven by our disease, resulting in self-...
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JFT August 22 Contribution
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"We recognize our spiritual growth when we are able to reach out and help others." Basic Text, p. 58 = To make a difference in the world, to contribute something special, is perhaps the highest aspiration of the human heart. Each one of us, no matter what our personal makeup, has a unique...
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JFT August 21 Friendships
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"Our friendships become deep, and we experience the warmth and caring which results from addicts sharing recovery and a new life." IP No. 19, Self-Acceptance = Most of us come to Narcotics Anonymous with few genuine friends. And most of us arrive without the slightest understandin...
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JFT August 20 Facing death
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Often we have to face some type of crisis during our recovery, such as the death of a loved one... Basic Text, p. 98 = Every life has a beginning and an end. However, when someone we love a great deal reaches the end of their life, we may have a very hard time accepting their sudden, final absence. Our gr...
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JFT August 19 First things first
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"We apply effort to our most obvious problems and let go of the rest. We do the job at hand and, as we progress, new opportunities for improvement present themselves." Basic Text, p. 54 = It's been said that recovery is simple--all we've got to change is everything! That can seem a pret...
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JFT August 17 Tell the truth
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"A symptom of our disease is alienation, and honest sharing will free us to recover." Basic Text, p. 80 = Truth connects us to life while fear, isolation, and dishonesty alienate us from it. As using addicts, we hid as much of the truth about ourselves from as much of the world as we possib...
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JFT August 15 Up or down
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"This is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day...This growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer." Basic Text, pp. 35-36 = Our spiritual condition is never static; if it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its...
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JFT August 18 "How long do I have to go?"
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The way to remain a productive, responsible member of society is to put our recovery first. Basic Text, p. 102 = The meetings have been great! Each night we've attended, we've gathered with other addicts to share experience, strength, and hope. And each day, we've used what weve learned in the me...
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Its that time of year!
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Looking for English speaking addicts to lead a meeting via SKYPE @ 7:30pm Tues (Pacific time)
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My name is Ben from Pasadena, CA. I secretary a meeting on Tuesday nights @ 7:30pm-9:00pm. I'm having a hard time finding leaders (who qualify for 10-15 minutes at the beginning of the meeting) and I had a great idea...why don't I find leaders from around the country via Skype? I can easily put someone o...
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JFT August 13 Difficult people
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By giving unconditional love...we become more loving, and by sharing spiritual growth we become more spiritual." Basic Text, p.103 = Most of us have one or two exceptionally difficult people in our lives. How do we deal with such a person in our recovery? First, we take our own inventory. H...
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JFT August 12 Enough!
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"Something inside cries out, 'Enough, enough, I've had enough,'and then they are ready to take that first and often most difficult step toward dealing with their disease." = Have we really had enough? This is the crucial question we must ask ourselves as we prepare to work the First S...
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JFT August 11 Active listening
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"Through active listening, we hear things that work for us." Basic Text, p. 102 = Most of us arrived in Narcotics Anonymous with a very poor ability to listen. But to take full advantage of "the therapeutic value of one addict helping another," we must learn to listen active...
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JFT August 10 Regular prayer and meditation
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"Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely." Basic Text, p. 44 = Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was more than just a bad habit waiting to be b...
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JFT August 8 Responsible recovery
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"...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that we're equally responsible for our solutions." Basic Text, p. 94 = Some of us, well accustomed to leaving our personal responsibilities to others, may attempt the same behavior in recovery. We quickly find out it doesnt work...
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JFT August 7 The gratitude list
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"We focus on anything that isn't going our way and ignore all the beauty in our lives." Basic Text, p. 77 = It's easy to be grateful when everything runs smoothly. If we get a raise at work, were grateful. If we get married, we're grateful. If someone surprises us with a nice present or an...
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JFT August 6 The joy within
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"Since the beginning of our recovery, we have found that joy doesn't come from material things but from within ourselves." Basic Text, p. 107 = Some of us came to Narcotics Anonymous impoverished by our disease. Everything we'd owned had been lost to our addiction. Once we got clean,...
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small steps
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After three weeks detoxing in a psych unit I am now four weeks clean. I am drifting between vulnerable and strong. I'm just finding my way around the site and wanted to say Hi.
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JFT August 5 The shape of our thoughts
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"By shaping our thoughts with spiritual ideals, we are freed to become who we want to be." Basic Text, p. 101 = Addiction shaped our thoughts in its own way. Whatever their shape may once have been, they became misshapen once our disease took full sway over our lives. Our obsession with...
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JFT August 5 When is a secret not a secret?
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"Addicts tend to live secret lives...It is a great relief to get rid of all our secrets and to share the burden of our past." Basic Text, p. 32 = Weve heard it said that "we're as sick as our secrets." What do we keep secret, and why? We keep secret those things that cause us shame....
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JFT August 3 Trusting people
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"Many of us would have had nowhere else to go if we could not have trusted NA groups and members." Basic Text, p. 81 = Trusting people is a risk. Human beings are notoriously forgetful, unreliable, and imperfect. Most of us come from backgrounds where betrayal and insensitivity among...
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JFT August 1 Freedom from guilt
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"Our addiction enslaved us. We were prisoners of our own mind and were condemned by our own guilt." Basic Text, p. 7 = Guilt is one of the most commonly encountered stumbling blocks in recovery. One of the more notorious forms of guilt is the self-loathing that results when we try to for...
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step 5 help
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Just finished step 5 with a sponsee. He murdered 3 people from age 14-23 and never got caught. Im having a difficult time handling it all. Im doing my step 3 prayer with it, but it keeps popping back in my head randomly.
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Congratulations!
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If you're reading this, congratulations of doing something positive for your Recovery! 12,666 One Day at a Times Clean the NA Way but who's counting. (Other than keeping the Spam cleaned up daily haven't been active on here in a spell so just thought I'd post a little something.)Grateful for another...
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JFT July 31 Freedom from active addiction
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"Narcotics Anonymous offers only one promise and that is freedom from active addiction, the solution that eluded us for so long." Basic Text, p. 106 = NA offers no promises other than freedom from active addiction. It is true that some of our members meet with financial success in reco...
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JFT July 30 Regular inventory
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"Continuing to take a personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions, attitudes, and relationships on a regular basis." Basic Text, p. 42 = Taking a regular inventory is a key element in our new pattern of living. In our addiction, we examined oursel...
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