http://awakenedrecoveries.com Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:57:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/home-top.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/home-top.html#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:49:36 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=6612 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/home-top.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/powerless-over-people-places-and-things.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/powerless-over-people-places-and-things.html#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:35:18 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=71 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/powerless-over-people-places-and-things.html/feed 15 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/acceptance-an-important-tool-in-twelve-step-recovery.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/acceptance-an-important-tool-in-twelve-step-recovery.html#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:53:18 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=257 “When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.”]]> http://awakenedrecoveries.com/acceptance-an-important-tool-in-twelve-step-recovery.html/feed 1 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/exploring-your-thinking-with-meditatio.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/exploring-your-thinking-with-meditatio.html#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:53:49 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=1603 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/exploring-your-thinking-with-meditatio.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/how-to-begin-meditating.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/how-to-begin-meditating.html#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 18:34:38 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=1514 For a simple concentration practice, place your awareness on one thing, such as:

1. Something outside – candle flame, a mandala, a sound, a mantra
2. Something inside – mental image, mental mantra, sensation of breath

And then attempt to keep the awareness on that one thing. ]]> http://awakenedrecoveries.com/how-to-begin-meditating.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/heard-in-the-rooms-keys-under-the-bed.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/heard-in-the-rooms-keys-under-the-bed.html#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:09:38 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=1410 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/heard-in-the-rooms-keys-under-the-bed.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/how-am-i-supposed-to-meditate.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/how-am-i-supposed-to-meditate.html#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:18:55 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=1221 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/how-am-i-supposed-to-meditate.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/response-to-being-powerless-over-people-places-and-things.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/response-to-being-powerless-over-people-places-and-things.html#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:15:21 +0000 portobello nic http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=1213 NOTE: This is a visitor response to Gregg's post, "I am powerless over people, places and things." It’s true I cannot control people that don't want to change or listen and that I therefore become powerless over the way they choose to lead their lives at that moment in time. But, at the same time, small moments or simple comments can instantaneously create radical change after many years of failed attempts. Suddenly people can see things differently in moments of clarity, regimes change, institutions collapse, societies transform under persistent external influences. Were it not for my sister's long and emotionally torturous campaign to help me find sobriety I would almost certainly have been abandoned to a slow homeless death. I was incapable of helping myself, had no knowledge of AA, or alcoholism, and needed intervention of some sort, she was undoubtedly the catalyst that forced me to decided to seek change.]]> http://awakenedrecoveries.com/response-to-being-powerless-over-people-places-and-things.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/begin-eleventh-step-meditation-practic.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/begin-eleventh-step-meditation-practic.html#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:50:50 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=1206 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/begin-eleventh-step-meditation-practic.html/feed 0 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/the-twelfth-step-practicing-the-principles-in-all-our-affairs.html http://awakenedrecoveries.com/the-twelfth-step-practicing-the-principles-in-all-our-affairs.html#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:39:16 +0000 Gregg D. http://awakenedrecoveries.com/?p=75 http://awakenedrecoveries.com/the-twelfth-step-practicing-the-principles-in-all-our-affairs.html/feed 0