Recovering Through Open-Mindedness

"... we understand that the world's condition wasn't really the problem. It was our ideas and attitudes about the world that made it impossible for us to find a comfortable place in it." ~ Basic Text p. 55 You know, I was thinking about this today before I even read the Just for Today. It was pretty interesting that this was the topic for the Just for Today . I said a few weeks ago that I don't believe in coincidences anymore, and I'm coming to realize that if I open my eyes to the view around me that things usually are connected to each other in one way or another. So today was a pretty rough one. Unfortunately I can't say much because I don't want to violate our traditions and anonymity principals of the Narcotics Anonymous program. So, I'll just talk about the Just for Today . "Our attitudes and our ideas are the eyeglasses through which we see our lives. If our "glasses" are smudged or dirty, our lives look dim. If our atti...

So before I start answering this question, I actually had to look up the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'. For those of you who don't know, like I did, effect is commonly used as a noun, to show impact and or the result of something. Affect is commonly a verb and is used to show influence over something. You can affect something, and observe the effect of the affect. "You can't affect the creepy poem by reading it, but you can enjoy the effect of a talking bird." Just a little tid-bit of information for your day. "How has my disease affected me physically? Mentally? Spiritually? Emotionally?" ~ NA Step Working Guide p. 2 Physically So over my years of drug use and abuse, I've affected my life physically in more ways then one. I've done many different types of drugs from hallucinogens like 25i-Nbome, to mood altering substances like MDMA. Pretty much every common drug except PCP, crack, and heroin. Each substance affected...