Loosid Sober Tip of the Day March 05

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

I really loved this I waste my energy thinking about what I want to do and don’t do it

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#4

Through my own doing, I manifested what I feared the most. I lost everything I held dear and had to rehome my Australian Cattle Dog, best friend, my child really. He trusted me, counted on me, loved me unconditionally. I betrayed that trust and had to look him into his big brown eyes and LEAVE him. I am totally gutted and have been for 1 1/2 years. Still struggling to accept it all.....but I must....I cannot keep living in the emotional surge on so many levels, in the past. Draining my energy and creating low energy.

#5

i let a man set up in my house and in my head who is not paying rent in my head. and who cheated on me and stole from me

#6

I have spent the better part of my life wandering why God let my father get murdered and when I finally had a good cry which took me over thirty years to accept it and move forward everything else in my life got so much easier.I had to stop blaming and when I did that and I stopped using it as an excuse I was set free!! I hope this has helped someone in some way ,its ok to hurt and to :cry: but it is so hard to forgive so what I did was I left that to God and I just moved on I felt like a ton of bricks got taken off me. GOOD LUCK TO ANYONE WHO IS GRIEVING IN ANYWAY, BUT TRUST ME IT WILL PASS AS WE ALL GRIEVE THE SAME JUST IN DIFFERENT ORDER. GOD BLESS