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DoN4me


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In my meeting tonight learned a few things. First I learned about fun and how much I had missed it. For me it was a time when I didn't have a "headache to keep me down". Before I left for my meeting in the car I was thinking "HALT = am I hungry, angry, lonely, tired". I was angry before I left the headache just had me so worn out it made me tired and lonely because I felt I was all alone in my quest for recovery. That I would never get better. I felt a peace come over me at at the meeting. I felt a calm and so my HP has given me the answers I had been searching for. "How important is it?" I have always lived my life for others not as I wanted. I have always done for others not myself. But my HP only shows love and that is what I am going to do. I can't stop everything in my life from causing the "headaches" because like the my scriptures tell me "They know not what they do", so maybe my "headaches" show some mercy as others have done before me. I know I know the work of my HP I can help me in my recovery not to be so angry at them. If I knew of all the different things to try to rid myself of my "headaches" I could fully recover and learn to have fun again. I will try to do this for me and because I feel in my heart that is what my HP wants me to do. I may not beable to rid all the "headaches" but atleast I can try to "let it begin with me". This is what I learned at my f2f tonight. remember "keep it simple" he only gives us what we can handle. So guess I started over again.... "I know there is a plan for me but still not sure what it is".


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Glad you enjoyed your meeting...


Would it be any fun if we knew our plan?


Josey



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Yes, it would be cause there are times I feel like I am bashing my brains in. I try to let go and let God. Today for the first time I realized how important is it really to me. I know there is a greater purpose then what I am seeing right now but all the anger is gone from me. So for me that is a "BIG TIME" thing for me. Listening to all the shares tonight my HP kept taking me back to those few slogans I mentioned. I started finding answers in them. It wasn't about them it was about me I was obsessing again in a different way. Over them and not me. I learned much clarity in my meeting. Show me how much really do need the program.


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Thank you for your post. Although we're different... we're somehow the same! Meeting are so important to me, whether I'm calm or otherwise.

I may not be able to rid all the "headaches" but at least I can try to "let it begin with me".

Made me think of the "Bengali Tea Boy" story that Buddhist nun Pema Chodron often talks about. I wondered if her teaching about this was on-line, so I did a google search on Bengali Tea Boy and found this wonderful story, from Mothering Magazine no less!

Thank You Barbara For Being My Teacher!

It amazes me how people can manipulate me (or teach me about myself!) when they know how to reflect back at me the things I need to work on. Some do it without even trying! Love to hear your take on this approach to the "headaches" in our lives.

"Keep coming back!"

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Welcome to MIP. You are not alone. There a lot of people who understand.


 


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  • Go face to face meeting & online meeting.

  • post on the board here on the site. I have gotten a lot of good feed back.

·        Set support system.  people do not judge. You need someone who can go for coffee on a bad day, or pick up a phone and call when in trouble. The support is what is important when you first this program.



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You don’t have to do this the minute u come to the program but I suggest that u do it when u can. It help.


 

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