{"id":2556,"date":"2025-07-13T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:41:03","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-july-13th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days July 13th 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-1de678ba8b384877d849a4d4bf2fddd1\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 breathe slowly<\/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-48cb66813a4f97be8cf735ea243f9571\"><strong><br>Thinking, feeling, perception and intuition are the<br>four functions of the ego, according to renowned<br>psychiatrist Carl Jung. Employing these, we<br>interpret and respond to reality. That works best<br>when we have rid ourselves of the burdens of the<br>past and the future and simply focus on today. We<br>distort our grasp of reality by our opinions, our<br>needs or our expectations. We must keep it simple,<br>then we can progress our personal development.<br>Do I appreciate that I must build my life on a<br>foundation of reality?<\/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-c085895eac50f8af28a6d45f5a776428\"><strong><br>When you lack understanding and you<br>are unable to control your mind, your<br>senses do not obey you, just as unruly<br>horses do not obey a charioteer.<br>Hindu, Upanishads.<br>Total control of my mind will probably never<br>happen, but I must remember that my thoughts,<br>feelings and actions are all connected. If I focus on<br>these and do not let my opinions and expectations<br>get in the way, then I will be able to make the right<br>choices. I will use meditation and mindfulness to<br>help clarify my thoughts.<\/strong><br><\/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 breathe slowly Keep it simple Thinking, feeling, perception and intuition are thefour functions of the ego, according to renownedpsychiatrist Carl Jung. Employing these, weinterpret and respond to reality. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2556\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2556","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-recovery","tag-addiction-treatment","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2559"}],"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=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}