Hiatus Day Seven – Emotional Health

I have to admit that I struggle with what most would call emotional health. Beginning with my journey of recovery in 2002, I’ve started learning what emotionally healthy is really like and some tools to help achieve positive emotional health.

Many of my emotionally-unhealthy thoughts occur when I first wake up. The stampede of thoughts come rushing in and many times act as though they’re wanting to stay for the day. Left to my own devices, I might lay there for an hour or two, wallowing in those feelings. But such is not productive and I’ve learned not to let those emotional thoughts rule the day.

I have read and reread and listened to a book by Dr. David Hawkins entitled “Letting Go.” And when I feel my emotional self taking over, I remember the techniques he share in the book about letting them go.

The first step is to recognize the feelings for what they are,,,just feelings. Then I continue to let them rise to the surface without pushing them away. I have learned that our emotions are products of thoughts we’re having. Instead of focusing on the thoughts that produced the emotions, I should focus on the emotions themselves. I need to let the emotions arise without trying to do anything to judge them or change them. In other words, let them run their course.

Such was the case this morning when I woke up. I felt touches of guilt and shame making their way into my mind. Instead of repressing or suppressing them, I let them be, recognizing them for what they were – just thoughts. Pretty soon I found the emotions were starting to lift and I could get on with my day.

The thoughts and emotions may work themselves back into my mind later in the day and if they do, I ‘ll repeat the procedure. It seems to work very well. Although I may never be completely rid of the negative emotions, they at least don’t have the hold they did on my life at one time.

David Lee

Day Seven Card Pull

TURKEY SPIRIT

Give with gratitude and grace

Oracle Message: Turkey Spirit’s message for you is that you always have the potential for manifesting a rich reality, for the turkey represents generosity and a celebration of abundance through giving to others.

Give freely without expectation and you shall receive, for the manifestation of abundance is happening right now. Align with it by sharing your good fortune with others, whether you give money, loving guidance, the gift of listening, or kindness in any form.

Immerse yourself in the flow of generous abundance, being a channel for Turkey Spirit and the desire of Spirit to see all beings experience the blessing of plenty. Give with gratitude and grace, from a wellspring of love and compassion, knowing that Spirit will respond by giving you all that you need in this moment and all moments to come.

Day Six – Card Pull

WEAVERS KNOW THAT ALL IS GOD

Essential meaning: the Conscious Universe is the Source of supply, Spirit is fundamental to life, the mystical is the primary reality

The Weavers know that all is God—do you? This is a profound, magical time in your life, and it’s important that you recognize your relationship with your Higher Power as essential and primary.

Consider all the gifts of your very existence. When you breathe, ask yourself who is breathing you? What force moves through you, animating you and those you love? The Universe is the spark of life within you and Nature. In you is true magic, connecting you to the web of all creation; each strand woven on your behalf is pure consciousness. Right now, you’re being asked to remember this and feel what that means to you.

Every single thing in your life is sacred and infused with the power of Spirit, God, the Conscious Universe. Even your difficulties are infused with the sacred and are always beckoning you to remember who you truly are: an immortal, spiritual being having a mortal, human experience.

Can you see right now that whatever you’re asking about has divinity sparkling through it? Treat the subject of your query with reverence and step into the sacred dance. You cannot go wrong; you’re meant to have this experience right now.

Daily Writing Prompt – Day Six

Daily writing prompt
Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
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I would have to say the Hoka tennis shoes I’m currently wearing are my favorites. I found out about them from my daughter and subsequently ordered a pair. Over the past year, I’ve put in over 1200 miles walking while wearing them. And who knows where they might take me in the future.

David Lee

Hiatus – Day Six –

February 19, 2024 – I’ve never been accused of being too tidy. While I can fault my ADD for my current level of (or lack thereof) organization, I’ve realized through the years it’s just a part of who I am. There seems to be some sort of method to my maddness, as today’s finds pointed out.


Today has been one of those days when I look for something and along the way, find other things I’d totally forgotten about. I have a talk that I’ll be presenting in a couple of weeks and have two items that I use during the talk. One is my first journal from twenty-two years ago and the other is a meaningful page from a phonebook during thes same period of time.

I had a rough (very rough) idea of where those two items might be. My first inspection came up empty and I came to the realization that I might have to give the talk without my props. Not wanting to give up, I started looking again and on that path, found several things totally unrelated. One was a pair of legal documents that I’ll need for an upcoming court date. I was going to have to email the documents to myself and then go to the local library to print them off. Luckily, I’d already printed them off much earlier and in my quest to find the items I was looking for, found them. So I’m saving myself a trip to the library and have all that ready to go.

While I was looking, I also came upon my first AA chips from my first year in sobriety. I had gathered them in a frame and given them to my parents after that first year. When my mother died a couple of years ago and my father sold our homeplace, I took the framed tokens back. When I came upon them today, I cleaned the frame up and placed the chips back in order. Now I’ll have an additional item to share during my talk.

I eventually did find the two items I was looking for. The journal was in the place I had previously inspected…I had just overlooked it because of its small size. In the process, I found another blank journal that I’d be able to use in the future.

The second item, the page from the phone book, was on top of the refrigerator. I very carefully slid it out from under several things and now have that ready to go for my talk as well.

So there’s something to be said for not being the most organized person in the world. While it takes me some time to find things, I also come upon other items that I had completely forgotten about. It’s not totally a bad thing. Just a part of me being me.

David Lee