There’s a spot in our home that I love. It has soft box light on a small table with a floor vase filled with reeds beside it. While altogether the items might have cost around $150, most of them were just odds and ends lying around the house. When I look at that spot the muscles in my shoulders relax, all my racing thoughts disappear and a gentle song plays in my head.
The more research I read, the more I learn about alcohol and drug dependency and co-dependency, the more obvious it becomes that recovery is about creating a new world for ourselves. We learn to avoid triggers, those things that take us to a negative state. We learn to engage in those activities that build a more positive frame of mind. We change by building those activities, relationships and practices that support us becoming the kind of person we’ve always wanted to be.
So my question is: What spaces have you built in your life that help you relax? That help turn off the troubles of the day? That focus your mind on the meditation of a song that touches your heart?
John
The more research I read, the more I learn about alcohol and drug dependency and co-dependency, the more obvious it becomes that recovery is about creating a new world for ourselves. We learn to avoid triggers, those things that take us to a negative state. We learn to engage in those activities that build a more positive frame of mind. We change by building those activities, relationships and practices that support us becoming the kind of person we’ve always wanted to be.
So my question is: What spaces have you built in your life that help you relax? That help turn off the troubles of the day? That focus your mind on the meditation of a song that touches your heart?
John
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