Loosid Sober Tip of the Day July 6

Sober Tips
#1

The power of the serenity prayer.

Over the next three days, we will look at one of the most powerful prayers in recovery …and in life.

First, as mentioned in previous tips, it is important to clarify that the program of recovery is a spiritual one, not a religious one and when we say, ‘God’ that is whatever our conception of our higher power may be.

The first part of the serenity prayer is as follows:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.

We often notice that the first part of the serenity prayer, once we truly practice it, frees up the vast majority of our time.

So many of us in recovery (and in life) wonder why someone did this, why someone else did that, why someone else said this, or why someone else said that.

We also get upset when we get an injury, miss the train, get cut off in traffic, the list is endless as it happens countless times each day to all of us.

Here’s another one… why do we have alcoholism? Why did we become an addict?

When we don’t accept the things we cannot change, we waste energy foolishly.

If it already happened, why do we spend any energy whatsoever fighting what has happened?

Once we are able to truly accept the things we cannot change, we can free up our lives and focus entirely on changing the things we can.

Just for today, think about what you have been wasting your time on that has already happened. How much time have you wasted?

Once you recognize this and choose to let it go and move into acceptance, you should feel a feeling of relief that you have not felt in a very long time.

If you are open to it, share below your experience with this first part of the serenity prayer. What have you been wasting your energy on?

There are many people in the Loosid community who need to hear what you have to say.

With Love, Loosid :pray::heart:

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#3

Getting angry, frustrated and hateful over how someone else acts. And now, letting it go.

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#4

This prayer found me long before I even knew I was going to become an alcoholic. So by the time I found out I'm an alcoholic and came upon this prayer again, miraculously, everything made way more sense to me!:pray:

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#5

Free yourself.!

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#6

Amen brothers! Powerful tool!

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#7

Thank you :heart::tent:

#8

I needed this today!

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#9

:fire::fire::fire:
This takes me to understanding “let go, and let God” and really just giving God full control.

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#10

When I hang onto the "coulda, would, shoulda" of the past, it's easy to get frustrated with myself and others, and spend wasteful brain power on obsessive thinking. This is when I try to remember I don't have a time machine and there's nothing I can do to change it. What can I learn from the past, and how can I apply it to my life on this day.

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#11

I fight with excepting the things I cannot change.. some of my family just try my patience just to see how far they can push me.. but I pray each day to not let them get to me.. some days I have to close myself off from everything and stay away from everyone.!!

#12

I didn’t like this prayer in early recovery! :joy: I wanted my problems fixed right now! I’ll show you! :laughing: just a toxic mindset to linger in the past.
Today I can say I absolutely love this prayer. I actually enjoy the long form as it goes even deeper into letting God take the wheel. There’s absolutely nothing I can do about the past, but what I can do is not repeat it. Work on me today, help others, and take it one’s day at a time.

#13

Wasting my time on what if man tired of that for real. It’s so simple to just let it go but I make it difficult I’m working on it lol pray for me