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JFT September 25 The Fourth step--fearing our feelings
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We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic.Basic Text, p. 30=A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. Th...
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JFT September 24 A growing concept of God
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The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We dont have to be religious to accept this idea. The point is that we open our minds to believe. Basic Text, p. 24 = In a lifelong process of coming to believe, our understanding of God will change. Th...
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JFT September 22 Keeping the gift
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Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift. Basic Text, p. 107 = Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift weve been given. Suppose someone gave you a new car. Would you let it sit in the driveway until the tires rotted? Would you just drive it, ignoring routine m...
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JFT September 23 Dealing with gossip
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In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other. Basic Text, p. 11 = Lets face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone has ever known before. They kn...
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The two visibly active defects in my life !
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Hi.
My name is Raman an addict.
I want to share that the most visible defects in my life now is
laziness and anger.
Im lazy somehow or other and when i try and get out and be active, im getting angry.
Sometimes im thinking its because im single and at other times i attribute that
to the after effects of...
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JFT September 21 Prayer
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Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills. Basic Text, p. 46 = Many of us came into recovery with no experience in prayer and worried about not knowing the right words. Some of us remembered the words wed learned in childhood but weren...
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JFT September 17 Going beyond Step Five
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We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake.Basic Text, p. 32=Some of us arent too keen on writing out our Fourth Step; others take it to an obsessive extreme. To our sponsors growing dismay, we inventory ourselves again and again. We discover ev...
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A day clean is a day won !
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Hi all, my name is Raman and Im an addict ( thanks for letting me remind myself !!) A day clean is a day won. I spent Sunday morning with my daughter and we had lunch together and also watched "National Treasure". Nice time...... Then my daily walk, shower and Im ready to goto work. And, I had a...
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A great book to check out
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Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction by Marni Mann Just got done with it.... took me 1 day to read it bc I couldn't put it down. Its a book all of us can relate to! It will stick with you.... trust me. Her story is incredible
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JFT September 20 Courage to change
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity Prayer = Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what w...
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JFT September 19 Fellowship
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In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we dont have to experience anything alone. IP No. 16, For the Newcomer = When we practice using the steps and the other tools of our program to work through our hardships, w...
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New video-voice chat meetings are available.
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Hello,we have video-voice chat meetings at navoices.com.They camn be found at http://yeechat.com/navoices.We do not use any information and say it is ours.Our forum can be found at http://navoices.com.All are welcome at these meetings,there is also text chat during these meetings.The meeti...
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Need help for my sister
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Hi everyone! I joined this site to can information and to talk about my little sister. My sister is 24 years old and recently her and her bf split up. This was her first love and they were together for 3 years. Well after the break up she moved back home and came out and told my family that she has been using he...
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Last nights meeting
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Last night at a meeting I heard a member, returning from a slip, explain his choice thusly: "Last night I got to the point where I was either going to blow my brains out or use; so I chose the non-fatal option." I find such comments frustrating. Truth be told, and in my opinion of course, every...
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JFT September 18 Honest relationships
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One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships.Basic Text, p. 57=Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any weve had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward those who eventually become our frie...
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JFT September 16 Emotional balance
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Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out.Basic Text, p.47=Though each of us defines emotional balance a little differently, all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless o...
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Gaining Back Trust
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So I am 13 days clean and feeling pretty damn great about it, got great support from most of my family. Thats the problem... there are 2 very important people in my life, my father and boyfriend, that want this to "work" as quickl as possible and want to see a change right away. I told them I can o...
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JFT September 15 Filling the emptiness
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...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, well be satisfied and everything will be alright.Basic Text, p. 80=In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness in...
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JFT September 14 Secrets are reservations
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Eventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again.Basic Text, p. 85=Everyone has secrets, right? Some of us have little secrets, items that would cause only minor embarrassment if found out. Some of us have big secrets, whole areas of our lives cloaked in thick, murky darkness...
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JFT September 13 Something different
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We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs.Basic Text, p. 13=Many of us have always felt different from other people. We know were not unique in feeling that way; we hear many addicts share the same thing. We searched all our lives for something to make us all right, t...
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JFT September 12 New horizons
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My life is well-rounded and I am becoming a more comfortable version of myself, not the neurotic, boring person that I thought Id be without drugs. =Is there really life without drugs? Newcomers are sure that they are destined to lead a humdrum existence once they quit using. That fear is far fro...
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Health issues..............
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So out of the blue my vision went from 20/20 to 20/30. Went to see my eye doctor, and ended up with many more questions then answers. I am diabetic, so he's been watching me closely anyway. But I feel so let down, cause I constantly monitor myself, am very active, and felt I was years away from...problems...
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JFT September 11 Bend with the wind
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We learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed.Basic Text, p. 102=Flexibility was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. Wed become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasures o...
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JFT September 10 More powerful than words
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We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world...Basic Text, p. 91=Perhaps there have been times in our recovery when we were close to someone who was in great pain. We struggled with the question, What can I do to make them feel better? We felt anxious and inadequate to r...
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September 9 Feet of clay
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One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others.Basic Text, p. 82=Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almost superhumanl...
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i need an sober addict to talk to
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Hi everyone. i am a drinking (polytox) addict, familiar with NA and cannot leave my apartment anymore. I need to contact someone sober- Can anyone help? Ty very mich Serge
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Look to this day !
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Look to this day,
for it is life, the very life of life.
And in its brief course lie all the realities and verities (truths) of existence.
For yestrday is but a dream and tommorow is only a vision,
but today well lived,
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tommorow a vision of hope....
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JFT September 8 Rebellion
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We need not lose faith when we become rebellious.Basic Text, p. 35=Many of us have lived our entire lives in revolt. Our initial response to any type of direction is often negative. Automatic rejection of authority seems to be a troubling character defect for many addicts.A thorough self-exam...
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Making New Friends
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Id like to get some suggestions about where to meet new people. Im not really wanting or needing a relationship in terms of a woman in my life. I would like to meet people that i can just go do activities with. In my homegroup, there arent many people my age, and ive looked over and over but i cant find many ac...
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JFT September 6 Regular meeting attendance
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We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.Basic Text, p. 9=The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean is a brand-new expe...
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