Soulshine

“You turn me inside out You tell me what it's all about To make the tears run dry You turn me inside out And I don't have the slightest doubt Cause I can see You can see What's really inside of me What's really inside of me.” Culture Beat, Inside Out (1994) Sometimes we meet the person who can truly see inside of us. And sometimes, as we progress in recovery, we can begin to see inside of others. I remember back in 1996, after being in recovery for nearly a year, a friend telling me “You’re terrifying me.” I questioned why and he said that I was gaining so much insight so quickly through my recovery program that he was afraid that any day I would be able to see right through him; see through to all of his addictive shenanigans, to all of his weaknesses and to how he actually felt about himself. Truth was, he was too late to be worrying about it. I had already seen through him. I had seen past his tough, power-driven exterior that projected a fals...

Everything in the universe has a natural flow. We are part of that flow. Like every other element or living thing within the universe, we have our intended place and purpose. So then why is it that we humans spend more time struggling with life than we do flowing with it? We often choose to make our day, and life, a struggle. It doesn’t have to be. We can take conscious, positive control of our day and we can ask our Higher Power to govern our subconscious input each day. Each morning, pray to your Higher Power and ask for the guidance to flow with the universe. Pray that God keep you naturally within your place and focused on your purpose for each given day. Let go, stop struggling and allow yourself to flow. In doing so, you may find yourself more frustrated than usual at first. Why? Because you will still be hell-bent on having things your way. That stubborn little need to control the uncontrollable will still be present. Let’s call it withdrawal. So you might find ...