Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out.
Basic Text, p.47
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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 of what may be happening around us. To some, it might mean an understanding of our emotions that allows us to respond, not react, to our feelings. It can mean that we experience our feelings as intensely as we can while also moderating their excessive expression.
Emotional balance comes with practice in prayer and meditation. We get quiet and share our thoughts and hopes and concerns with the God of our understanding. Then we listen for guidance, awaiting the power to act on that direction.
Eventually, our skills in maintaining near-balance get better, and the wild up-and-down emotional swings we used to experience begin to settle. We develop an ability to let others feel their feelings; we have no need to judge them. And we fully embrace our own personal range of emotions.
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Just for today: Through regular prayer and meditation, I will discover what emotional balance means to me.
We are truely blessed to have this programme.......Today I can be a spiritual being with the love, tolerence and understanding of others that I never thought possible. Keeping balance in my life takes an awareness of self that only comes by prayer, meditation and the tenth step.
This reading was exactly what I needed to hear this morning. Thank you Dave. I afraid i am still very much a work in progress when it comes to having an emotional balance. I do however try to be aware of it a lot more today. Hope everyone has a very blessed day.
Take Care, Stacey
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Hey Dave.....yes I also work hard,as I pray and meditate to find any reasons I may be feeling out of balance.I am getting pretty good at nailing the area of "funk" I am putting myself in and that helps me to seek relief,through even more petition and prayer in those areas..Even when I see myself coming,there are times that I just have to "feel it,work through it and get out of it!!(with the help of my HP)It really does work if we work it.I don't call it "whining " anymore i refer to it as an area I would like to share with another to free myself up..something for many years I would try to accomplish by myself..Self sponsorship never did bring me to any lasting emotional balance,,but when Im biting your head off,,I know its time to really look inside and see "wat up!!!!God thanks for instilling spiritual principles in my life, along with my faith beliefs that gives me plenty of ammo to hit the right target!!!
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Our purpose is to remain clean,just for today,and to carry the message of recovery.
