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JANUARY 19

SERVICE

EMOTIONAL BALANCE

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

Benjamin Disraeli

The emotional pain I experience can help me grow. I achieve emotional balance by walking through this pain, and one of the ways I have learned to do this is through service to others. Service takes my focus off myself and my pain, and puts my focus on helping someone else. Working with another person often helps both of us experience the “riches” of recovery.

Through service work, I achieve balance in other areas of my life, and this helps with my chronic pain. Being of service helps me tremendously in all areas of my life, but particularly when I feel like I’m suffering from emotions that come up when actively working a pain recovery program.

Whether at a twelve-step meeting, with my support group, in the community, or in other ways that I discover through working with my counselor, sponsor, or therapist, I am of service to others today.