October 18

”It has long be an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My addict used to like things complicated. The more an event could be turned into a big affair, the stronger the emotional reaction I would have and want to suppress and the bigger the reward I needed to seek to compensate. Talk about living in insanity. Life is complex, certainly. Things happen that are not always simple. Yet I don’t need to add artificial complexity to life to support those behaviours that will cause me to overreact in unhealthy ways. My life now is more about giving things their proper perspective, assessing them more realistically and then acting accordingly. I don’t need my old coping mechanisms and it’s rare that my instinct pulls me in that direction. Even when my thoughts start to lead me astray, I am aware and can stop and let them pass. If they persist, I choose to pick up a tool of recovery or reach out for support to keep making the healthier choices. The other realization has been that many of the things which are too complicated are events that I can do little to change. So in turning them over to the care of my Higher Power I free myself to live more simply.

Affirmation I will choose not to overburden myself with things I cannot control, nor overcomplicate what can remain simple.