Topic of the Week, words beginning with the letter "D"
 

D is for Develop. Develop a relationship with your Higher Power, your Sponsor, and I was told, with myself.

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D is for Divine. Look for the divine good in yourself and others. It is my firm believe that the spirit of God (of your understanding), resides in each of us. When I daily take time to meditate and connect with the Spirit within, I am given the Good Orderly Direction that I need each day to stay clean and sober. Many substance can take away my soundness of mind if I allow it to take up space in my head and I act out on it's desire instead of the Divine goodness from my Higher Power.

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D is for Do. Easy does it, but do it!!! It is about following thought with action. Not doing everything at once, spacing yourself and not tiring yourself out. Give yourself a treat but DON'T spoil yourself rotten!
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D is for Don't

Don't become too tired
Don't become too hungry
Don't become too lonely
Don't become too angry

Don't be in a hurry -- remember TIME: Things I Must Earn

D is for Daily Meditation

Daily meditation helps keep one focused on recovery and staying sober.

D is for Dance. Get into the rythmn of life. Our timing can be off and we need to ground ourselves. I was told to rub my feet on a carpet. What better way to do it than get up and do a little jig and get the parts jangling. There is a book called Dance of Anger, which was recommended to me. Working and touching the ground with your feet and hands are good for you. Get in touch with nature and look at the Creator's Handiwork.

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D is for DEAD

Drinking
Ends
All
Dreams

Today, I choose not to drink!

D is for Drunk. I can have a dry drunk without picking up a drink. When I don't make changes in my life, I stay the same if I just put a cork in the jug. If I don't apply the steps, I may not be drunk, but I will continue to act out in my disease.

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D is for Don't! Don't pick up a drink or a drug in today. Just for today, I choose not to use. Don't beat myself up! I couldn't find recovery until I was willing to work the AA program for myself. I had to get honest with myself and take off the blanket of denial. I had to open my mind to other concept other than my own "I am the great I am, don't you know" attitude I walked around with. I don't have to pick up those masks in today.

Don't pick up a drug, pick up a daisy and give someone a hug.

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D is for Deep Breathing

Use deep breathing. let today's stress ooze out of you. try yoga. meditate. relax. pray.

D is for Dominion. I will share with you a story my mother told me when I was a child that I never forget. Some of you may not be old enough remember the punch line.

"Mommy, why don't we pray for Loblaws?" We don't pray for those kind of things dear. Well the minister said, "Pray for Power and Dominion, why can't he pray for other grocery stores.

God Has Given Us Dominion
Genesis chapter one explains in the beginning God gave dominion to man.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” Gen 1:26-28 (RSV)

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D is for Develop. Develop a working relationship with your Higher Power and with your sponsor. Develop a program that works for you. Don't be afraid to add extra meetings, meditations, journaling, extra support people, and anything else that will allow you to strengthen and grow in the Fellowship of the Spirit.

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D is for Daily Meditation. It is important to develop a routine of spending time in meditation daily. There is a lot of material to read that will keep up grounded in your program of recovery. You could also spent some of the meditation time praying to your Higher Power.

D is for Deep. Sometimes we have to dig deep into the root of our problems. Many issues originate in our past, things we were not able to grieve or deal with when we were in active addiction. Some things we haven't completely let go of and there is a thread connecting us to the past and in order to have health and well being in today, we need to cut the thread and let go and let our God show us the way or do it for us. We often expect God to fix everything right away and we forget to do our part. Expectations can be killers. We forget that we need to accept things in today, in order to change.

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D is for Deliver. My God delivered me from myself. He didn't go away, I did. He had my back, many times I should have been dead. He brought me out of the depths of despair and gave me hope for a better tomorrow. So far, He has delivered and kept His word when it comes to the promises of recovery.

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D is for Denial

Denial which is the opposite of acceptance, kept me drinking and sick for a long time! years in fact. I didn't admit that I am an alcoholic until I was in treatment.

D is for Disease

Alcoholism is a disease. We must have daily acceptance and vigilance.

"We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 33
Today I am an alcoholic. Tomorrow will be no different. My alcoholism lives within me now and forever. I must never forget what I am. Alcohol will surely kill me if I fail to recognize and acknowledge my disease on a daily basis. I am not playing a game in which a loss is a temporary setback. I am dealing with my disease, for which there is no cure, only daily acceptance and vigilance."

From the book Daily Reflections
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

D is for Easy does it...but do it! I need to follow thought with action. My head can get busy with thoughts of all the things I have to do, but instead of sitting and contemplating them, I need to get up and do things one step at a time. First things first, do what is in front of you and the rest will follow.

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D is for Drive

I don't mean drive your car...I'm talking about having the drive to quit drinking, to choose recovery and to stay sober. You have to want to quit for yourself and have the drive and determination to work your program of sobriety.

D is for Disease. I suffer from the disease of addiction. I was at dis-ease within myself, and I looked for things outside of myself to make me feel better.

The only problem is that the disease is progressive, and when I wanted to stop, I could not. I always had to have more. Thanks to the 12 Step Programs I was not only able to quit, but stay quit, one day at a time. Just for today, I choose not to use drugs in any form. Alcohol is a drug. Food is a drug. Work can be a drug. I can be addicted to busy, so I don't have to look at myself.

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D is for Easy does it...but do it. We need not rush and get all hyper, we can take a deep breathe and just do what needs to be done, in a way that doesn't stress us. I can't, we can, be it our Higher Power or our best friend, our sponsor, or a complete stranger, who helps us do what needs to be done in the time it needs to get done. Easy does it doesn't mean to quit it and do it another day.

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D is for Dead

D - Drinking
E - Ends
A - All
D - Dreams

D is for Denial. Denial kept me sick. It almost killed me. I was glad that I found AA, and then was taken to ACoA. I identified with their literature so much. I think if I had gone there first, I would have died in my denial. It wasn't about others, it was about me and MY disease.

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D is for Divine Orderly Good. If I look for the goodness in someone, I can`t go to far wrong. Any one who has stayed sober in today is doing a good job. I look at it as the Dog>God Syndrome. Divine Order Good from a Group of Drunks and Drug Addicts, show me a new way to live.

Today I am a somebody, I am no longer a nobody.

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D is for Dry Drunk. A dry drunk is someone who doesn't work the Steps and apply them to their life. They become automatic and a way of life, and we have found a new way of life. A dry drunk is someone who has put the plug in the jug, but doesn't have a program. He/She doesn't change the old behaviors, patterns, and habits and continues to act out in his/her life. I am just a good old boy/girl, there is nothing wrong with me, I don't drink any more. I was at that place and received a very rude awakening. There is more to this recovery thing besides not drinking and drugging. They are but a symptom of my disease. My problem is me.

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D is for Day. Each Day is a new beginning. We don't drink, one day at a time. What ever you decide to do, don't drink or pick up a drug for this 24 hours. We put great emphasis on this, we stay clean and sober for one day, today.

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D is for Dear. Hold those who support you and don't let them get away. You will realize down the road, generally in hind sight, how much they dearly blessed your life. Hold them near and dear, even if they move out of your life, they had a lesson and gift to give you.

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D is for Declare. Tell people how you feel about them. Don't keep all that love to yourself. Pass on a smile, a hug, a kind word, hope and encouragement.

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D is for delight. We can take delight in our recovery. We have so many gifts to be grateful for. We can show our delight by saying thank you.

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D is for Denial. Thinking we are different than others and don't need to work the program the way other people do, has caused a great many people to relapse. We do recover from that hopeless state of mind and body that we had when we came into the rooms of recovery, but we do not stop being an alcoholic or an addict. We only have daily reprieve contingent on our spiritual not religious condition.

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D is for Detch. Detaching doesn't mean we don't love and care. It generally means we care too much and are enabling you in your disease, and we feed our own dis-ease by focusing on you instead of ourselves.

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D is for Defiance. God and I are working on this. I still have trouble with, "Don't tell me what to do." My sponsor said, "Do an about face and do the opposite of what you have been doing." That was after 49 years of living, I had a lot of work to do.

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