The Language of Letting Go - March 2014

[MajestyJo]

Friday, March 28, 2014

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

Balance

Seek balance.

Balance emotions with reason.
Combine detachment with doing our part.

Balance giving with receiving.

Alternate work with play, business with personal activities.

Balance tending to our spiritual needs with tending to our other needs.

Juggle responsibilities to others with responsibilities to ourselves.

Balance caring about others with caring about ourselves.

Whenever possible, let's be good to others, but be good to ourselves too.

Some of us have to make up for lost time.

Today, I will strive for balance.

Balance has been strive for me in recovery. For most of my life it was either/or and recovery was learning that there were shades of gray. I could balance things if I looked at the whole picture and looked at what I needed, especially for my sobriety. For it was meetings, my family, my sponsor, and building a life without the use of alcohol and drugs. Instead of the extreme highs and the lowest of the low of depression, I had to find a medium ground and a place that allowed me the freedom that recovery promised.