Brightening One Day-Addiction Recovery

It’s always interesting to see what a difference 24 hours can make, even two hours.
I am a life transformation coach, coach based on many of the principles Eckhart Tolle put forth in A New Earth, I have a strong spiritual foundation, have helped many others, have been addiction free for a long period of time; yet I can lose sight of the very things I know, believe, try to practice and coach.
Yesterday, I started a day in a funk. I journaled about it, externalizing it, and began to see the clouds life.
I went through a coaching the coach session, meditation, a session with an associate and trusted advisor, a 12 step meeting and some exercise and social activity. By the time my wife got home from work, I was in the game and the world had a blue sky.
Time is what we measure by, and things can change so quickly.
When things are on a positive roll, we never seem to have enough time. Recently, I’ve had too much time and have spent too much time in my own head. I learned long ago, my mind can be a dangerous neighborhood and I’m better not being in there alone. Yesterday served as a great minder of this.
Time, properly used is a gift. I am responsible for how I use time, and to a very large extent, I am responsible for my big picture frame of mind. No body can make me happy. I can coach others about this and with results, but now and again, I forget this truth in my own life.
Yesterday, practicing what I know to be true and preach did for me what I know it will do for others. Through the events that took place yesterday, both by journaling and discussion with others, coupled with meditation, yesterday was a wonderful and abundant day.
It is obvious that lately I have not filled my time with enough of meaning. I have allowed too much past and future to creep in, and have wasted time dwelling outside the moment and the day. When we do this, things that are not constructive happen. I am thankful that I recognize these things as they happen, and have been coached to not only develop a tool kit to cope, but to reach into the kit and use it.
I’m looking at a long weekend with a lot of available time. I will live the moment and let time be my friend! I have a great chance to give a little away over the weekend, and will!