Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   September 16                                             Emotional balance

    "Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our
                         experience bears this out."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 45

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   Though each of us defines "emotional balance" a little differently,
   all of us must find it.    Emotional balance can mean finding and
   maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless of what may be
   happening around us.   To some, it might mean an understanding of our
   emotions that allows us to respond, not react, to our feelings.  It can
   mean that we experience our feelings as intensely as we can while also
   moderating their excessive expression.

   Emotional balance comes with practice in prayer and meditation.  We get
   quiet and share our thoughts and hopes and concerns with the God of our
   understanding.  Then we listen for guidance, awaiting the power to act on
   that direction.

   Eventually, our skills in maintaining near-balance get better, and the
   wild up-and-down emotional swings we used to experience begin to settle.
   We develop an ability to let others feel their feelings; we have no need
   to judge them.  And we fully embrace our own personal range of emotions.

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   Just for today:   Through regular prayer and meditation, I will discover
   what emotional balance means to me.