Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Anonymous
The most powerful way to overcome fear is to make friends with it. Instead of labeling fear as your enemy recognize that it is bringing you a gift. Whenever you feel afraid, you are approaching the edge of your perceived safety zone. But your safety zone is just a tiny portion of the world that is available to you. A Course in Miracles asks us to remember, I am in danger nowhere in the universe. If you never tested your limits, you would never grow. The ego, intent on keeping you small, fixed, and miserable, shrieks, You must not step across this line! What the ego does not tell you is that on the other side of the line awaits freedom, not death.
The presence of fear means that you are pressing against the invisible membrane that smallness warns you not to pass. Be grateful that you have come to this point and have not stayed bound in the little world of inadequacy
A time of hardship or darkness is an initiation. You are being tested and strengthened to move ahead to a new level. The blackest night gives way to the brightest day. As I look back on my times of great challenge, I recognize that they were soon followed by significant growth. If youre going through such a time, hang in there. Instead of cursing your situation, bless it as a harbinger of the dawn. You are not being punished; you are really getting somewhere. The world is not unfair; it would be unfair if it let you live in fear. You are not being crushed; you are being squeezed through the birth canal. The flip side of every death is a new life. Claim the presence of good, and your transition will be much easier. Thank God for the opportunity to dump fear and walk in the light you deserve.
Help me to find the gift in my challenges.
All experiences strengthen me as
I grow into the light.
A deep Breath of Life , Alan Cohen
Anonymous
The most powerful way to overcome fear is to make friends with it. Instead of labeling fear as your enemy recognize that it is bringing you a gift. Whenever you feel afraid, you are approaching the edge of your perceived safety zone. But your safety zone is just a tiny portion of the world that is available to you. A Course in Miracles asks us to remember, I am in danger nowhere in the universe. If you never tested your limits, you would never grow. The ego, intent on keeping you small, fixed, and miserable, shrieks, You must not step across this line! What the ego does not tell you is that on the other side of the line awaits freedom, not death.
The presence of fear means that you are pressing against the invisible membrane that smallness warns you not to pass. Be grateful that you have come to this point and have not stayed bound in the little world of inadequacy
A time of hardship or darkness is an initiation. You are being tested and strengthened to move ahead to a new level. The blackest night gives way to the brightest day. As I look back on my times of great challenge, I recognize that they were soon followed by significant growth. If youre going through such a time, hang in there. Instead of cursing your situation, bless it as a harbinger of the dawn. You are not being punished; you are really getting somewhere. The world is not unfair; it would be unfair if it let you live in fear. You are not being crushed; you are being squeezed through the birth canal. The flip side of every death is a new life. Claim the presence of good, and your transition will be much easier. Thank God for the opportunity to dump fear and walk in the light you deserve.
Help me to find the gift in my challenges.
All experiences strengthen me as
I grow into the light.
A deep Breath of Life , Alan Cohen
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
Drinking is the same for me. Im afraid to let go of it... what if I really need it some day? And afraid to not let go... it's done nothing but cause harm to me and those around me.
Eesh... makes me wonder if fear is on both sides of any inner conflict?
Good post okiyoe.... it's got me thinking.
I do believe the character is strengthened and/or weakened by the choices we make when facing our fears.
he called it "Exposure"....you would be given small incremental doses of the fears that you had to get you across the line of fear and into or onto the other side of the fear....I consider it very helpful to have Exposure to my fears as I grow thru them to the place where hopefully I will have that fear subside so that it does not affect my life any longer....
hugs bill
ps thanks for these posts fro Allen cohen...I have never heard of his book before here....and it seems to be prestige that he is building in his posts....or confidence? whatever it is I like it!
When we are resentful, selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened, that's self-will; the opposites of those being God's will for us... unselfishness, honesty, purity and love.
I'll scan some of the stuff I got and send to you. You will like!
I really did like the message in this post.
i think i need to read a course in miracles. i know i agree with everything you've posted. so thank you!