ACCEPT CHANGE

Life continually evolves. We’re always moving into new experiences, new possibilities. This constant change unsettles the personality, which finds security in stability. But with life always in flux, that security is an illusion. We experience pain by trying to hold on to things that are not solid.
Life becomes joyful when we can open to the constant flow and ride freely with it. This requires us to let go of the need to control. We need to learn to trust.

DAILY GURU

Wednesday 29th Of September 2004

What Is the Purpose of Your Life? The purpose of life is to know and experience complete joy. Each person uses different strategies to experience joy. An artist feels joy painting all day. A singer feels joy singing. A dancer feels joy when dancing. In these cases, painting, singing and dancing are strategies for experiencing and feeling joy. Be open and willing to learn and uncover what would bring joy to you, in all areas of your life.Realize that every vibration you offer creates your future. Become more deliberate about what you are vibrating. Begin to make decisions based on how things make you feel. Soon you'll be paying more attention to just how many negative feelings you are willing to tolerate. This is true self-care.Identify what makes you feel good and do more of it.

DAILY GURU

Tuesday 28th Of September 2004

The Law of Attraction responds the same way your mind does: it hears what you don't want. When you hear yourself make a statement containing the words don't, not or no, you are actually giving attention and energy to what you don't want thus putting the Law Of Attraction into play and attracting to yourself what you don't want.Remember, you attract to your life whatever you give your attention, energy, and focus to, whether wanted or unwanted.

Are You a Banker?

Are You a Banker?

Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.
What would you do? Draw out every cent? of course!!!!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance.
It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back.
There is no drawing against the "tomorrow".
You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time. And remember that time waits for no one.

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!!

- Unknown

DAILY GURU

Monday 27th Of September 2004

Words are everywhere. We speak them, read them, write them, think them, see them, type them, and hear them in our head. It's important to understand that all words carry a vibration for the person who says or thinks them.Your unconscious and conscious mind filters the words don't, not and no. Whenever you use these words, you are actually internalizing in your mind the exact thing you are being told not to. For example, if I said, "Do not think of a snowstorm," I guarantee that you would start thinking of or picturing a snowstorm almost immediately. Even though the instruction was to not do something, your unconscious and conscious mind edited out that part of the instruction.

DAILY GURU

Sunday 26th Of September 2004

Three Steps To Activate The Law Of Attraction

Step 1.
Identify Your Desire. Once your desires are identified, it will be easier for you to vibrate more of what you really want.

Step 2.
Raise Your Vibration. Discover how you can deliberately raise your vibrations. In other words, you'll need to learn how to offer positive vibrations for your desires.

Step 3.
Allow It. You'll also need to learn how to reduce and even eliminate the doubt and resistance that stops you from attracting what you want.

DAILY GURU

Saturday 25th Of September 2004

Observing what you are getting in your life, how much money you have, the quality of your relationships, your work and your health, comes with a feeling (vibration) that can be either positive or negative. Even though you may not be aware of it, you are perpetuating the "reality cycle." For example, when you notice that you do not have much money, you will experience a feeling of lack, which is a negative vibration. The Law of Attraction is responding to that vibration by giving you more of what you were vibrating. That is, you will start to experience more events related to not having enough money, which will make you feel worse.

DAILY GURU

Friday 24th Of September 2004

Think about the expression, "He and she give off good vibes." Each one of us gives off good or bad vibes. In fact, we are constantly vibrating. If you are excited, content, appreciative, feeling gratitude or pride, then you are offering positive vibrations. If you are angry, sad, disappointed, feeling poor, unlucky, or defeated, then you are sending out negative vibrations. It's important to be in touch with, and aware of, your vibrations because whatever you're vibrating, that's what the Law of Attraction will give you more of.

LIVE NOW

Live now

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

-- Annie Dillard

We lose the power of the moment because we're so rarely in it. We're reliving the past or speculating about the future. We continue to believe that tomorrow's the day when I'll be more capable, more wealthy, more fit and more loving. Meanwhile, I'm just putting in time, dreaming of better things but not making any concrete move to realize them.
When you find yourself thinking of the future or the past, bring your awareness into the present moment. Really experience how you feel and what’s happening around you, without judgment. If we can treasure each moment, our lives will be rich, no matter what we have accomplished.

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

-- Horace Mann

"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'there goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious."

-- A. B. Zu Tavern

DAILY GURU

Wednesday 22nd Of September 2004

Visualization is the ability to use the imagination and see images in our minds. If we add concentration and feelings, it becomes a great creative power that makes things happen. Used in the right way, visualization can bring changes into our lives. The thought is the matrix or blueprint; the feelings provide the energy, the "electricity". This is the power of creative visualization. This is the power that can alter our environment and circumstances, cause events to happen, attract money, possessions, work and love, change habits and improve the health. It is a great mind power. It is the power behind every success.

QUOTE

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."


*Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer

DAILY GURU

Tuesday 21st Of September 2004

Your mind creates the circumstances and events of your life. You attract success and prosperity with the power of the mind.You are not the mind, but the consciousness beyond it. Rise above your mind, and become aware of the powerful consciousness beyond it

DAILY GURU

Monday 20th Of September 2004

If our inner world is in peace, then our outer circumstances begin to reflect thisinner peace. Outer peace always follows inner peace. The people we come incontact with, sense this peace subconsciously, and respond and behave accordingly.Developing the ability to concentrate, meditate, rule one's thoughts, and not tofeel compelled to follow every thought that floats trough the mind is the key toinner peace.An individual working on his mind and emotions achieves inner peace, andconsequently enjoys outer peace. It does not matter what are the outer conditions,and what is the state of affairs around. If you work towards inner peace, your lifeand circumstances will change to reflect this peace.

DAILY GURU

Saturday 18th Of September 2004

Most of the time, we attract by default rather than by deliberate choice. We just sort of go through our day, focusing on problems that need to be solved or on things that did not feel good nor seem right. In so doing, we are actually creating more problems, more of what does not feel good, and more of what does not seem right.Think of yourself as a huge magnet; the kind that pulls metal to itself from afar off. It doesn't try to attract, it simply does attract. It is the same way for us. Whether or not we are trying to attract, we ARE doing so all the time. (Except when we are asleep.) And we attract the likeness of what we think about. If we are thinking about a lack of something, we are attracting more lack (scarcity). If we are thinking about something we love, we are attracting more of what we love and enjoy. I know it sounds incredibly simple, and it is.

DAILY GURU

Friday 17th Of September 2004

Placing your attention, energy and focus on the negative aspects of some people in your life brings you more of the same. Simply put, that's the Law of Attraction at work.When you shift your attention to the kinds of people you DO want in your life, that shift, coupled with your clear desire to STOP attracting negative people into your life, will set the energy in motion for new results to show up. When you shift from what you don't want, to what you do want, your vibration changes. And know this-you can only hold one vibration at a time! The Law of Attraction is always matching your vibration in any given moment.

DAILY GURU

Thursday 16th Of September 2004

The Law of Attraction states that you'll attract to your life whatever you give your attention, energy and focus to, whether wanted or unwanted--emphasis on the unwanted. The "vibes" that you put out into the Universe (also called vibrations) are either negative vibes or positive vibes, and at every moment, the Law of Attraction is responding to the vibes you are offering by giving you more of the same, whether wanted or unwanted.If you are curious about what it is that you are offering vibrationally in any area of your life, you simply need to take a look at that area and see what you're getting. it's a perfect match.

DAILY GURU

Wednesday 15th Of September 2004

You may not be aware of it, but a very powerful force is at work in your life. It's called the Law of Attraction, and right now it's attracting people, situations, jobs, and relationships to your life - not all of them good! If your life feels as if it has turned south and taken on the characteristics of a bad soap opera, it's time to learn and apply the Law of Attraction to your life.You can use the Law of Attraction to make a few changes in your life or to do a complete overhaul.

QUOTE

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit;and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not alwaystell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."

*Lydia M. Child {1802-1880 American Abolitionist & Writer}

DAILY GURU

Tuesday 14th Of September 2004

Expressing appreciation and gratitude are two important ways of sending off the right vibration into the Universe.What you send out always comes back tenfold. The world will reflect to you a mirror image of your predominant thoughts and emotions. Emotions of love will always reflect a safe and prosperous world, whilst emotions of anger and fear will reflect back a world of hate, malice and lack.

DAILY GURU

Monday 13th Of September 2004

When we are full of joy and gratitude, we tend to send out higher waves of positive energy, which magnetize back to us high frequency experiences like great opportunities, positive-minded people, healthy bodies, etc. Also, when we send out the energy of doubt, frustration and fear, we tend to attract challenging experiences that aren't desirable. All you really need to do in order to be successful and happy is to constantly emit high frequency vibrations which will attract your desires to you! It's important to know that we are each born with the natural power to create our own reality. We do so everyday! The real question is... are you creating what you WANT, or stuck in creating what you DON'T WANT? There always is another choice. It is up to you.

DAILY GURU

Saturday 11th Of September 2004

You are the channel by which all emotion must pass first before it goes out into the world. Do you want to experience more love? Then you must first give love. You are the center from which all emotion emanates.Do not blame others for making you angry. You must remember that anger arises from within you first. When you squeeze an orange, you can only get orange juice. It is the same with us. When we are emotionally squeezed, we give out what is stored within. Your response to a hostile person could be love just as easily as being hostile in return.It is said that when Jesus was on the cross, the soldiers pierced his side with a sword and water poured out from the wound. Water is the symbol of peace. Do you get the message?

WELCOME

Welcome to GettingPastGambling.

My name is Linda and I am a Recovering Compulsive Gambler (RCG).

My Last Day Gambled (LDG) was 18th December 2003.

I have experienced many highs and lows and used many different tools and support methods to help me overcome this addiction.

Although this forum is not affiliated with GA or any other recovery program, the valuable work that is done in supporting and assisting those in need, is acknowledged and valued.

Whether you are new to recovery, or well on the way and regardless of which program you choose to follow.....ALL ARE WELCOME.

If you care to share your feelings and thoughts about your gambling addiction/experience, please feel free to join in.

I look forward to getting to know you and hopefully be able to offer and receive support/advice as we travel the road to Recovery together.

LindaH.