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KY_EnviroGuy

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20. Stevil, just a suggestion....

Thu Feb 7, 2019, 04:54 AM

Feb 2019

Try to learn some very basic meditation techniques. They will both help you rest, and to deal with your everyday trials.

For me, the first and most important method was simple quietening of my mind - which was running like a squirrel cage and I had to stop it just to survive. I figured that one out on my own and it has been key to my life since then.

Don't let the word meditation scare you - it simply is what you make of it for YOU.

Those simple things saved my ass when I first got sober and have kept me that way for nearly 30 years.

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