Relax: To calm down; to make something loose; to make something less severe or tense.
Calm: Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
My Quiet Time is a work in progress, always changing, hopefully expanding. There are some tried and true techniques that I rarely change, prayers and mantras and affirmations that I find helpful, that I have always found helpful, and there is a constantly evolving list of Quiet Thoughts du jour. This is as it should be. I find it comforting to repeat something that is meaningful to me while recognizing that these regular touches may lead me to a place where I'm just repeating stale words and not listening to the meaning. There are some things that I should always be grateful for and there should be some new things in the gratitude list, too. Otherwise I'm saying "thank you for giving me good friends blah blah blah" - words with no meaning. Empty sentiment.
I would like to be calm and accepting. I would like to be content with what I have. I would like to see what I have accomplished each day and not focus on things left undone. It's all OK. Take it easy. These are my new additions.
Sad that after 30 years in The Program I have to remind myself of the most basic, elemental concepts - concepts that we tell newcomers to help them get the most tenuous toehold on recovery.
Maybe this is keeping it simple.
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