Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   March 8                                         Learning to love ourselves

            "What we want most is to feel good about ourselves."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 101

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   "We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself." These words,
   heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to
   eagerly-the day when we'll know how to love ourselves.

   Self-esteem-we all want this elusive quality as soon as we hear about
   it.  Some of us seem to stumble upon it accidentally, while others embark
   on a course of action complete with affirmations made to our reflections
   in the mirror.   But fix-it-yourself techniques and trendy psychological
   cures can only take us so far.

   There are some definite, practical steps we can take to show love for
   ourselves, whether we "feel" that love or not.   We can take care of
   our personal responsibilities.  We can do nice things for ourselves, as we
   would for a lover or a friend.   We can start paying attention to our own
   needs.  We can even pay attention to the qualities that we cherish in our
   friends-qualities like intelligence and humor-and look for those same
   qualities in ourselves.  We're sure to find that we really are lovable
   people, and once we do that, we're well on our way.

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   Just for today:   I will do something today that helps me recognize and
   feel love for myself.