Fear and Anxiety – 324
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
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In a recent online meeting, the almost unanimous choice of topic was fear and anxiety. We were all feeling it in one way or another. We started with a reading from Courage to Change, January 10. It talks about “mental static” of worry, and then says “I'm learning to focus all my attention on this...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 324 of the recovery show. This is a brief one. I had a meeting online meeting last night. |
| 0:11.7 | We had nine people in attendance. We're still struggling with the best |
| 0:16.6 | way to get the word out where people don't necessarily leave their email or their phone with us for us to contact them. We're not at this moment |
| 0:28.3 | comfortable publishing the access number for the meeting on the local Al-Anon website. It's probably |
| 0:36.7 | fine but there's some discomfort with that from some of the members so we're |
| 0:41.2 | still thinking about that but anyway last night after we all got hooked up and said |
| 0:47.1 | hi to everybody for that meeting we usually start with a question does anybody have a pressing topic or issue that they'd like to talk about? |
| 0:55.7 | And almost immediately, several words came out including fear and anxiety. |
| 1:04.3 | We then find a reading that relates to the topic. |
| 1:08.5 | This one about fear is from courage to change January 10th. I suspect that if I reclaimed all the minutes, |
| 1:16.3 | hours, and days I've sacrificed to worry and fear I'd add years to my life. |
| 1:21.1 | When I succumb to worry I open a Pandora's box of terrifying pictures, paranoid |
| 1:26.2 | voices, and relentless self-criticism. |
| 1:29.8 | The more attention I pay to this mental static, the more I lose my foothold in reality. Then nothing |
| 1:35.1 | useful can be accomplished. To break the cycle of worry and fear I'm learning to focus all my |
| 1:40.3 | attention on this very moment. I can turn away from destructive thoughts and |
| 1:44.4 | concentrate instead on the sights and sounds around me. Light and shadows, the earth |
| 1:49.6 | beneath my feet, the pulse of everyday living, all the pieces of the here and now. These bits of reality |
| 1:56.8 | help rescue me from what ifs and should haves by anchoring me in the present. |
| 2:07.1 | Prayer and meditation, the slogans and phone calls to Alan on friends are other sources of serenity that bring me back to this moment. |
| 2:10.6 | As I shut out the noise, I am more receptive to my higher powers will and therefore much more able to work my way through difficult times. |
| 2:20.0 | The reminder says this day is all I have to work with and it is all I need. |
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