One of those things I often find myself edging my mind is allowing those negative emotions to start taking over again. I can always remember my sponsor telling me to stop and to think with my head and not my heart.
What has often helped me to curb these, is to enter into the spiritual way of life in here. And often times it is working with another alcoholic and helping to enter a period of amusement into their thinking. A positive sense of thinking to take away the negative effect of their emotions.
When I have the opportunity to talk and share with another sober alcoholic I can express those three gifts I have been given: hope, faith, and love. It is amazing how this has worked for me over time in here.
I often think how difficult it is for alcoholics like myself to think what we are trying to do and to apply to our lives will ever work, since time takes time. And yet that’s where the help I received from my old sponsor came into being. He encouraged me over and over again to keep on keeping on. Not to quit, despite feeling discouraged because change took so much time.
Yet, as time went on, I did begin to change. Along the way I would get little gifts, which gave me hope. I always think about this, when working with others in here, who have some time, and find themselves slipping into negative thinking. I will try to do for them what my old sponsor did for me.
Anyway I was thinking about this today, as a result of attempting to do this for some lately. Again it is a reminder to me of what it is I’m supposed to be doing. Staying sober a day at a time. Never ever want to forget that.