{"id":2418,"date":"2025-06-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2025-06-10T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:21:16","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-11th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Daily reading from Recovery Days June 11th 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-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-3d72ba78aef877cbddf710b72f353c26\"><strong>Head to heart<\/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-4dce5364ab809ea81439fd35f26653bc\"><strong>Addiction professionals talk about the eighteen-inch<br>journey, from head to heart. What we think and what<br>we feel can be very different but the more the two<br>can be connected, the more we will be in balance.<br>Some of us know from personal experience that<br>intellectual understanding of an event and its<br>consequences is often not sufficient to convince us<br>to do otherwise. That is true of addiction. Because<br>our emotions are so powerful, it takes more than<br>logical argument to persuade us to do what we are<br>too afraid, too arrogant or too ashamed to attempt.<br>Will I make the eighteen-inch journey?<\/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-c1f45bac7fb68fd54a8b25edace48a9c\"><strong>When the great seventeenth century thinker Blaise<br>Pascal said: The heart has its reasons, which reason<br>knows nothing of, he meant that the heart can<br>sometimes stop us doing what seems intellectually,<br>right or equally, do things that seem logically<br>wrong. Today I ask for the wisdom to make the<br>eighteen-inch journey in order to keep my head and<br>my heart in balance.<\/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 enjoy the moment Head to heart Addiction professionals talk about the eighteen-inchjourney, from head to heart. What we think and whatwe feel can be very different but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2418\">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":[17,31,20],"tags":[15,28,27,30,26,33,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-treatment","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","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=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2419"}],"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=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}