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Articles on emotional disturbance, mental health, spiritual sickness & recovery
Introducing the 12 Steps To 1 Hero video course
I’ve created a series of videos to help immensely anyone who’s struggling or suffering – emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically. They will also give a great boost, wherever you are in life. That’s whether you’re struggling, flying high or in need of the maximum you. Perhaps this is due to a life change. This could be such…
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12 Steps groups
Should you need some help from a 12-Step group, it’s best to Google “12 Steps” or “Twelve Steps” and/or “anonymous” and the word describing the problem. So, such as alcohol, cannabis, sex, work, exercise, internet, or gambling. Or the name of the particular 12-Step group if you know it, ie “Alcoholics Anonymous”, and perhaps your…
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5. Write a gratitude list
It seems very simple, but it’s really effective at getting people to think in a positive way (and consequently not in a negative way as they may well have been doing for years). So write one at night at bedtime and then read it first thing in the morning. If you are struggling in the…
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4. Read the Just For Today words
Then live your life according to them. If you read it every morning it just starts to become the way that you live. It’s a phenomenal way to live. First produced in 1978 by AA on a slim white card that folds in half to be around 7.5cm by 10cm, the Just For Today card…
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3a. Prayer: ask, believe, receive
Many people bring in prayer with meditation. Prayer simply derives from words meaning “to ask earnestly”. It is a humbling of oneself (hence why many people get on their knees or bow their heads) to realise that no person is the greatest power in the universe. Then ask earnestly about anything you are concerned, and…
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3. Start every day with meditation (working up to 30 minutes a day)
A lot of people get lost on this as they think they should be floating in the lotus position or something like this straightaway. But it’s really just about starting each day calmly and peacefully. So you have your cup of tea or coffee, but rather than bombarding yourself with things to do or social…
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2. Positive affirmations
Read some of these ones out that are listed below that appeal to you, in front of a mirror works especially well. Even if you don’t feel like doing these or perhaps especially if you don’t feel like doing them make yourself do them. Soon you will want to do them as you feel their…
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1. Keep it in the day and in the moment
It takes practice but start now. If you find yourself thinking about the past or future, catch yourself and bring it back to the moment. If you can do this once in a day, that’s progress. Then twice a day and so on, until you are fully living in the moment at every moment.
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Just For Today – the magic card…
There’s a pocket-sized folded white card that has helped millions of people around the world to positively transform their lives and benefit everyone around them too. For a few decades, tens of thousands recovering alcoholics and addicts have read this tiny piece of paper known as the Just For Today card. It has helped them…
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