{"id":2397,"date":"2025-06-05T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:26:11","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-5th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days June 5th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/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-0f70e924b634251cfc899c396e8d8859\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually<\/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-fe1775d89583aff787bb3536ec944acd\"><strong><br>Keep it simple<\/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-8dd2af19d3385f74a10d231add42dec0\"><strong><br><em>The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to<br>make sure that he never knows that he\u2019s in prison.<br>Fyodor Dostoyevsky.<\/em><br>Many people are prisoners of their own minds when<br>they over-complicate things. It is a lonely state. In<br>recovery, we are told to keep it simple. When we are<br>continually preoccupied with something, we cannot<br>enjoy the world around us. Do I remember what I<br>was worrying about last week?<\/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-16f572991f8ec4f886bdd97b8efee500\"><strong><br><em>We are what we think. All that we are arises<br>with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we<br>make our world. The Buddha<\/em><br>The duality of character in so many addicted<br>persons is one reason for complicated thinking.<br>Because our addiction leads us to do so much that is<br>against our better judgement, we are constantly<br>struggling with cognitive dissonance that makes us<br>unhappy. It is so much easier to keep things simple<br>when we are at peace with ourselves. Today I ask<br>God to help me see that<\/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;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually Keep it simple The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is tomake sure that he never knows that he\u2019s in prison.Fyodor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,31,20],"tags":[15,28,27,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-treatment","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}