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FEBRUARY 5

SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES

RELATIONSHIPS

“. . . becoming aware of the wishes, feelings, and needs of others, and taking the needs of others into consideration . . .”

Adapted from Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain

A solution-oriented strategy to deal with my chronic pain is to develop a habit of thinking and acting that is consistent with the Serenity Prayer’s guidance to “accept the things I cannot change,” and that includes “the wishes, feelings, and needs of others.”

Paradoxically, surrendering to the things I cannot control or change is necessary to reestablish the ability to choose how I want to act and what kind of life I want to have in recovery. One of the most important skills necessary to pain recovery is learning how to cope effectively with the often small, but irritating normal and natural frustrations of life.

I am aware of the small, normal, frustrating aspects of life, knowing that a spiritual awakening depends on my making a habit of dealing with daily small struggles—including the wishes, feelings, and needs of others—in ways that are consistent with the tools and principles I’m learning in recovery.