I just noticed your post on more posies. There aren't a whole bunch of posey pics I have for my website, but I dug up some oldies if you want. I haven't done any cropping or anything--just reduced their size for the www.
http://www.mnw.net/shane/acorns.jpg
http://www.mnw.net/shane/wildflowers.jpg
http://www.mnw.net/shane/iris2.jpg
http://www.mnw.net/shane/flowers.jpg
Oh Shane how cool of you! I just set them to my slide show on my laptop! Thanks sooo much! I absolutely LOVE flowers of any kind really. The acorn was cool too!!
Hope you are having a great Friday! Thanks again for taking the time to post those links. :-)
Valarie
Hope you are having a great Friday! Thanks again for taking the time to post those links. :-)
Valarie
Regarding your obsession post: I think it's normal to want to transfer addictions. I've been doing it all my life! When I first started stopping (~grin~) I began to "get healthy," by running. Months later I was up to 40 miles a week, running upwards of 6-8 miles in the morning. Every part of me hurt, but it was a "good" pain and I was sucking up the endorphines, too. I cracked my hips from running a 14 mile run and had to stop, but even before then I knew I'd transferred.
I've met people who transferred to food, work, people, etc., and the core reason is all the same. Balance. I've heard people say they're addicted to AA. Or candy. Or coffee. At least those things don't turn someone into an a****** like alcohol, or make one break out in handcuffs--or STOOPID.
:)
I've moved my obsessions to spiritual growth. Seems to be a healthy and safe endeavor...
"glad you're here....
I've met people who transferred to food, work, people, etc., and the core reason is all the same. Balance. I've heard people say they're addicted to AA. Or candy. Or coffee. At least those things don't turn someone into an a****** like alcohol, or make one break out in handcuffs--or STOOPID.
:)
I've moved my obsessions to spiritual growth. Seems to be a healthy and safe endeavor...
"glad you're here....
I agree with the transference of addictions definitely SKG. I think once I got sober and my mind wasn't numb to all my emotion anymore it just took off and went nutty.
Wow an exercise junky! I wish I could get addicted to something at least healthy. I am much too lazy to do exercise. LOLOL....At the moment I have an unhealthy relationship with coffee and food. :-)
Thanks again for posting the pics. I really appreciate it.
Have a great sober day!
Wow an exercise junky! I wish I could get addicted to something at least healthy. I am much too lazy to do exercise. LOLOL....At the moment I have an unhealthy relationship with coffee and food. :-)
Thanks again for posting the pics. I really appreciate it.
Have a great sober day!
I can't imagine an unhealthy relationship with food. Ice cream LOVES me. I feel far too unworthy NOT to oblige...
LOL!!!
I listened to the 1989 recordings of "Joe and Charlie: Big Book study," over the course of a two-week span while driving and stuff. They seemed to think that the thoughts in the mind were like air pressure--expanding to maintain constant pressure against its walls--and that removing the CRAP that kept us drunk, i.e., 4th and 5th steps, enabled us to make room for other thoughts and growth. Spiritually, of course, which kinda means "Spiritual Awakening," of The Spiritual Principles (Step 11) (It doesn't say anything about burning bushes or spiritual experiences and there's a good deal of discussion about the differences in the Big Book, pp 567, addendum II, "Spiritual Experience.").
Their point was that if I wasn't continually obsessing about getting even, or harboring resentments, then my mind had plenty of room for NEW thoughts, like The Principles--and "how to practice them in all our affairs."
So yeah, now I'm obsessed about living in, "The Solution," of AA. :)
LOL!!!
I listened to the 1989 recordings of "Joe and Charlie: Big Book study," over the course of a two-week span while driving and stuff. They seemed to think that the thoughts in the mind were like air pressure--expanding to maintain constant pressure against its walls--and that removing the CRAP that kept us drunk, i.e., 4th and 5th steps, enabled us to make room for other thoughts and growth. Spiritually, of course, which kinda means "Spiritual Awakening," of The Spiritual Principles (Step 11) (It doesn't say anything about burning bushes or spiritual experiences and there's a good deal of discussion about the differences in the Big Book, pp 567, addendum II, "Spiritual Experience.").
Their point was that if I wasn't continually obsessing about getting even, or harboring resentments, then my mind had plenty of room for NEW thoughts, like The Principles--and "how to practice them in all our affairs."
So yeah, now I'm obsessed about living in, "The Solution," of AA. :)
Exactly Skg! Your steps are exactly what I have been trying to practice just not "the steps". Does that make sense? The living in the now and not holding on to resentments and not playing to tapes of shoulda woulda coulda in your mind. Live in the solution not the problem. EXACTLY what I have been saying. If you constantly live in the past how can you be fully present to work on the now? I have to constantly remind myself that all my racing thoughts and replaying of the past just feeds the negative emotions that come from those thoughts. Totally useless. There is no time machine to go back. All I can do is move forward. Nice food for thought Skg.
Thanks for the post pal. Like I said you steppers teach me alot! :-)
Thanks for the post pal. Like I said you steppers teach me alot! :-)
Gidday Val
Read your other post on the scenario thinking and i am going through exactly the same process of every time i start to worry think scenarios, once i realise and it can take awhile at first, well once i realise i say in my head or out loud scenario and then the serenity prayer and then i hand it over and i am making great progress and with all recovery for me anyway addiction always has a few curve balls but hey i am getting my eye in and im starting to get a good batting average against ole addiction
Dont ya just want to find the old AAer that said everything after but is bullsh@t and give him a slap, evrytime i use but now i think of that....woops now i had better hand that over..but..LOL
light and love Zac
Read your other post on the scenario thinking and i am going through exactly the same process of every time i start to worry think scenarios, once i realise and it can take awhile at first, well once i realise i say in my head or out loud scenario and then the serenity prayer and then i hand it over and i am making great progress and with all recovery for me anyway addiction always has a few curve balls but hey i am getting my eye in and im starting to get a good batting average against ole addiction
Dont ya just want to find the old AAer that said everything after but is bullsh@t and give him a slap, evrytime i use but now i think of that....woops now i had better hand that over..but..LOL
light and love Zac
Hi Zac.
I heard someone say, "Seems you've been to the rodeo enough times to learn to leave the bull alone." LOL Know-It-All Bastards!
I heard someone say, "Seems you've been to the rodeo enough times to learn to leave the bull alone." LOL Know-It-All Bastards!
