This is a slogan used in 12 step groups (AA, NA) to help people manage addictions.
It is also a powerful tool that anyone can use.
Let's face it, we all have unhealthy habits. You can call them addictions or not.
How about being "addicted" to thinking?
I am not joking.
Does a habit of thinking, worrying and/or planning to in efforts to control life's outcomes sound familiar?
Or constant wondering what the future will hold that goes beyond a healthy excitement and curiosity? For me this can be wanting urgently to know the outcome of a relationship (Ex: "Will I marry this person? Ever marry? Have kids? Will I make six figures someday? Do I even want to have money? What will my house look like?")
We do this when we do not know (or forget) a deeper, more peaceful way to go about life.
So try telling your mind this,
Just for today I will breathe more, think less.
When I find my mind wanting to know things or control the way things go in an attempt to make my life better, I will let go.
Let God.
Just for today I will find peace in the now.
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