Live Simply, So you May Simply Live!
When we think of simple living, images are evoked of a cool hippie commune, monks living on the generosity of others, Toyota Prius owners, or Martha Stewart...oh well, maybe not!
I know for sure that drug and alcohol abuse is NOT a simple-affirming lifestyle. The stories of addicts are woefully wrought with conflict, denial, minimization about the hurt feelings of others, and it goes on and on.
Deciding to enter treatment for addiction can be a choice to live more simply, so you may simply live! The addiction disease process is progressive and without attention will simply kill, so why not simply live!
Living Simply is choosing to focus one's life in continuous benefit to others and to self. It usually works that way. The more we give and have concern and act on the concerns for others, then it makes our self concern more tolerable. In a complex, often depressing world, to decide to live simply gives us the soul energy to both celebrate and battle whatever crosses our path. When we "aim high" and "play large", wrapped in gratitude, we can see how our life changes...it becomes more simple!
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond all measure...it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us! We ask ourselves who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous, who are we not to be, we are a child of God." Nelson Mandela, his inaugural address, 1994
Recuperatio Primoris
Dr. Bill Heran
I know for sure that drug and alcohol abuse is NOT a simple-affirming lifestyle. The stories of addicts are woefully wrought with conflict, denial, minimization about the hurt feelings of others, and it goes on and on.
Deciding to enter treatment for addiction can be a choice to live more simply, so you may simply live! The addiction disease process is progressive and without attention will simply kill, so why not simply live!
Living Simply is choosing to focus one's life in continuous benefit to others and to self. It usually works that way. The more we give and have concern and act on the concerns for others, then it makes our self concern more tolerable. In a complex, often depressing world, to decide to live simply gives us the soul energy to both celebrate and battle whatever crosses our path. When we "aim high" and "play large", wrapped in gratitude, we can see how our life changes...it becomes more simple!
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond all measure...it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us! We ask ourselves who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous, who are we not to be, we are a child of God." Nelson Mandela, his inaugural address, 1994
Recuperatio Primoris
Dr. Bill Heran
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