When I am overeating, overindulging in a culinary delight, or bingeing, then I am not present to win… I have heard it said that silence is the only way we can hear God speak. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3292-3302). […]
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Binge Benefits?
If you … find yourself going out of control with a substance or behavior, I want you to consider that compulsive behaviors are a sign of a life out of balance. Instead of going into denial or trying to avoid […]
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Sit in the sunshine thirty minutes a day. Doing what? Computer work? Games? Catching up? Writing tomorrow’s poem? Sit in the sunshine thirty minutes a day. I can do all that but watching the birds drinking from the dog dish, […]
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You don’t understand. I can sit like a Buddha statue and breathe in and out but my mind skitters about like a squirrel sure that statue is hiding acorns in every crevasse. I can just start writing, but soon I’ve […]
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…that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt […]
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