Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   May 31                                                      Keep it simple

    "We live a day at a time but also from moment to moment.  When we stop
   living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 99

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   Life often seems too complicated to understand, especially for those of us
   who've dodged it for so long.   When we stopped using drugs, many of us
   came face to face with a world that was confusing, even terrifying.
   Looking at life and all its details, all at once, may be overwhelming.  We
   think that maybe we can't handle life after all and that it's useless
   to try.  These thoughts feed themselves, and pretty soon we're paralyzed
   by the imagined complexity of life.

   Happily, we don't have to fix everything at once.   Solving a single
   problem seems possible, so we take them one at a time.  We take care of
   each moment as it comes, and then take care of the next moment as it
   comes.   We learn to stay clean just for today, and we approach our
   problems the same way.  When we live life in each moment, it's not such
   a terrifying prospect.  One breath at a time, we can stay clean and learn
   to live.

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   Just for today:   I will keep it simple by living in this moment only.
   Today, I will tackle only today's problems;  I will leave tomorrow's
   problems to tomorrow.