This is your Higher Thought for today
AFFIRMATION
The more active I become in working my program, the better and healthier I feel about myself
“If you want to get better you have to act on your own behalf…”
CLARIFICATION OF THOUGHT
I know this might go against the grain of all of us who felt there was absolutely nothing we could do to help ourselves out of the prison of depression. Now I know that if I want to start feeling better I have to be active in my own healing. How does it work? First of all I admit I am powerless over my depression ; secondly, I put my trust in a Higher Power and believe that it can restore me to some sanity. I commit myself to understanding its will for my life.
I begin to believe that by getting active and involved in my own recovery, I will begin to be free of the interminable sadness that I have lived with for most of my life. In my depression, I was jealous of others who I figured had it better than I did. I envied those who felt happy and optimistic. Now I know that I can feel better, too.
MEDITATION
We want to live with the belief that we can get better. We are recovering by means of our belief in a Power greater than ourselves.” (You may want to write out your own personal responses to this Higher Thought here for today.)
SOURCE: Copyright (c) Higher Thoughts for down days: 365 daily thoughts and meditations for members of 12 Step fellowship groups. Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville. March 24. Pages 60-61.
Copyright(c) I’ll do it when I feel better. (2017) Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville.
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