{"id":1391,"date":"2024-08-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:28:21","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-august-21st-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days August 21st by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ef09045cdd219b2a7794e6aaf0c7fbc8\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ba1aa48c4a7173ea98b671762cfd9e33\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-17edef87043885040d05bfe3c1847adc\"><strong>YouTube&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Recoverydays_chris\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Recoverydays_ch<\/a>Remember M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4c4221a0dad19d1bba7fde8bfc3ce0d3\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a797aeae80acdf62c346c38c6aed9885\"><strong><br>True love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1ebd01b25b3c508894eba633bc9fd886\"><strong><br>Awareness begins with viewing your thoughts and<br>emotions in as detached a way as possible and<br>learning from them. It is a technique that may seem<br>awkward at first but then becomes a habit.<br>Perseverance produces insights that lead to change.<br>The change that helps people most is ceasing to see<br>oneself and one\u2019s needs as the main focus of<br>attention. See oneself as part of creation, so that<br>everything is no longer about \u2018me\u2019, can be called<br>\u2018disidentification.\u2019 Am I ready to learn awareness?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b178bf7c27284a9e9abb5b6b7633370b\"><strong><br>Modern love stories are often about manipulation,<br>intrigue and possessiveness. People pursue other<br>people in states of anxiety, desperation and burning<br>desire. It makes for great reading and great cinema,<br>but real love is something else. Loving people<br>because you need them in order to be happy is not<br>what love should be &#8211; it becomes about control<br>instead. I must recognise only real love.<br>Love does not dishonour others, it is not<br>self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it<br>keeps no record of wrongs. St Paul.<br>I ask God today that I will seek only true love.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p YouTube&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Recoverydays_chRemember M Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment True love Awareness begins with viewing your thoughts andemotions in as detached a way as possible andlearning from them. 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