A blog by Dr. Harry Henshaw
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Two ways to deal with Breakdowns in Recovery.
Sep 1st
One way to effectively deal with a breakdown or upset, especially if it is creating the urge to drink or do drugs, is to talk with another human being. Keeping an upset to yourself or keeping it up in your head is a receipt for disaster. Something negative will probably happen to your if you do not share what is going on with you. This is why it is important to create a support network of people you can call, sponsor, therapist or friends in recovery.
The second way to begin to effectively deal with an upset or breakdown is to take a look at what you are not accepting about the situation, people, places or things. Most if not all upsets and breakdowns are about having something happen that we believe should not have happened even though it did. Our work, and it is work, is to accept what happened, to eventually get it that everything happens in the way it is supposed to happen. Our work is to take that on as a possibility and in the work to accept fully what we did not once accept.
Positive Affirmations for Enhancing Self Esteem.
Sep 1st
The following affirmations can be used to enhanced positive self esteem.
Repeating them each day can help to improve what you think and feel about yourself.
1. I love myself.
2. I love everything about myself.
3. I love who I am.
4. I love my life.
5. I am perfect, whole and complete.
6. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
7. I always take good care of myself.
8. I love an approve of myself.
9. I am loving, lovable and loved.
10. I am love.
Positive Affirmations for Creating a Positive Body Image
Aug 27th
Positive affirmations can be of help to transform your life. Positive affirmations can also assist you in creating a positive body image.
1. I am perfect, whole and complete.
2. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
3. I love everything about myself.
4. i love and approve of myself.
5. I let go of the past. I ive life in and from the present moment.
6. I joyously forgive others and myself and I set myself free from the past. I am at peace.
7. My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.
8. I always take good care of myself.
9. I have and maintain my ideal, natural and healthy weight.
10. I respect and always take good care of my body.
11. My body is healthy and filled with energy.
12. I have and maintain the weight that I want.
13. I am safe and protected at all times.
14. I can, I am able and I will. I always do my very best.
15. I am good enough just as I am.
You can transform your life with positive affirmations.
The Process of Saying Goodbye through Acceptance.
Aug 26th
It has been eight weeks now since my mother has passed. While I think of her every day that goes by, the process of saying goodbye is just that, a process. I am coming to accept, slowly as it may be, that she is gone and that I will never speak to or be with her ever again. While in many ways I do not believe that I have fully come to terms with what has happened, I am finding comfort in a concept that I was introduced to to in recovery, that of acceptance. My work is to stand in the space of acceptance.
While the process of saying goodbye is still painful it is assisted by accepting that what happened did happen in the way that it was supposed to happen. It was perfect, perfect cause it happened in God’s world. My work, as difficult as it may be at times, is about coming to terms with what happened, of learning to accept it fully, not make anything wrong about the process and knowing that it happened as it was intended to happen. Acceptance is about accepting that my mother passed in the way that she did and that it could not have been any other way.
Everyday is about saying goodbye to my mother, being gratitude that she brought me into the world, that she was there for me in so many ways and that she loved me without condition.
Positive Affirmations for Letting Go of Smoking.
Aug 20th
Positive Affirmations can help to support your desire to give up smoking, to be done with in your life. Below are listed 10 positive affirmations for supporting effort be recover from smoking.
1. I always take good care of myself.
2. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
3. I breathe slowly and deeply.
4. I enjoy the feeling of breathing clean, fresh air.
5. I joyously release the past. I live my life in the present moment. I am at peace.
6. I shoose to be healthy and to treat my body with complete respect and love.
7. I choose to breathe clean, fresh air into my lungs.
8. I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.
9. With each breathe that I take of clean, fresh air I become more and more relaxed.
10. I am perfect, whole and complete.
Part of the work of letting go of smoking is to improve your self image, learn to relax, and let go of the past and the stress that gets generated.
Positive Affirmations for General Health.
Aug 8th
Using positive affirmations can also help your general state of health. The following positive affirmations can be used to support your general health.
1. I am perfect, whole and complete.
2. I love and accept everything about myself.
3. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
4, My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.
5. I am healthy and filled with energy.
6. I live life in and from the present moment, in the Now.
7. I always take good care of myself.
8. My body is strong and healthy. I am strong and healthy.
9. I am grateful for my life and good health.
10. I joyously forgive others and myself and I set myself free from the past. I am at peace.
Positive Affirmations for Recovery from Surgery.
Jul 28th
Below are listed ten positive affirmations for anyone in recovery from surgery. While positive affirmations are very powerful, this power can be enhanced by using them with therapeutic relaxation music.
1. I am healthy and filled with energy.
2. My body restores itself ow to its natural state of good health.
3. I am perfect, whole and complete.
4. Every cell of my body is healthy.
5. My body heals quickly and easily.
6. I love and accept myself exactly as I am.
7. I joyously release the past. I forgive. I am at peace.
8. I always take good care of myself.
9. My body is strong and healthy, I am strong and healthy.
10. I am grateful for my good health.
Affirmations for Prosperity and Abundance.
Jul 26th
The following positive affirmations will help you create prosperity and abundance in your life.
1. My income is constantly increasing.
2. I love and accept myself. I deserve success.
3. My life is abundant and prosperous.
4. My future is positive and bright.
5. Positive and wonderful things happen to me.
6. I am intelligent, talented and creative.
7. I always do my very best.
8. I am safe and secure.
9. I open myself to abundance and prosperity.
10. I trust the process of life.
Creating Life from the Possibility of Acceptance.
Jul 25th
One of the most powerful of principles is that of acceptance. Acceptance creates possibility in your life. For me acceptance is the key to recovery and transformation. It is that from which we experience of sense of serenity and peace, and with it our power as human beings. Without acceptance we are at the mercy of life happening.
Below is one of the most powerful passages that exists. The passage on acceptance comes from the Big Book, page 449 in the third edition and 417 in the fourth edition.
“And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation – some fact of my life - unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober, unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.”