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lhee0726_gb says:

Things You Can Do Right Away—Every Day—to Raise Your Self-admire
Often in both addiction and in recovery or self-admire can be low. It really is hard to feel excellent about yourself when you are active in your addiction or testing the waters of beginning recovery. Here are some sobriety tips an helping your self admire.
Pay attention to your own needs and wants. Listen to what your body, your mind, and your heart are telling you. For occasion, if your body is telling you that you have been sitting down too long, stand up and stretch. If your heart is longing to spend more time with a special friend, do it. If your mind is telling you to clean up your basement, listen to your favorite composition, or stop thinking terrible thoughts about yourself, take those thoughts seriously.
Take very excellent care of yourself. As you were growing up you may not have learned how to take excellent care of yourself. In fact, much of your attention may have been on taking care of others, on just getting by, or on “behaving well.” Start today to take excellent care of yourself. Treat yourself as a wonderful parent would treat a small child or as one very best friend might treat another. If you work at taking excellent care of yourself, you will find that you feel better about yourself. Here are some ways to take excellent care of yourself—
Eat healthy foods and avoid junk foods (foods containing a lot of sugar, salt, or stout). A healthy daily diet is ordinarily:
1. Five or six servings of vegetables and fruit
2. Six servings of whole grain foods like bread, pasta, cereal, and rice
3. Two servings of protein foods like beef, chicken, fish, cheese, cottage cheese, or yogurt
Exercise. Tender your body helps you to feel better and improves your self-admire. Arrange a time every day or as often as possible when you can get some exercise, preferably outdoors. You can do many different things. Taking a walk is the most common. You could run, ride a bicycle, play a sport, climb up and down stairs several times, place on a tape, or play the radio and dance to the composition–anything that feels excellent to you. If you have a health problem that may restrict your ability to exercise, check with your doctor before beginning or changing your exercise habits.
Do personal hygiene tasks that make you feel better about yourself–things like taking a fixed shower or bath, washing and styling your hair, trimming your nails, brushing and flossing your teeth.
Have a physical examination every year to make sure you are in excellent health.
Plot fun actions for yourself. Learn new things every day.
Take time to do things you delight in. You may be so busy, or feel so terribly about yourself, that you spend small or no time doing things you delight in–things like playing a musical instrument, doing a craft project, flying a kite, or going fishing. Make a list of things you delight in doing. Then do something from that list every day. Add to the list anything new that you learn you delight in doing.

Get something done that you have been putting off. Clean out that drawer. Wash that window. Write that epistle. Pay that bill.
Do things that make use of your own special talents and abilities. For occasion, if you are excellent with your hands, then make things for yourself, family, and friends. If you like animals, deliberate having a pet or at least playing with friends’ pets.
Dress in clothes that make you feel excellent about yourself. If you have small money to spend on new clothes, check out thrift stores in your area.
Give yourself rewards—you are a fantastic person. Listen to a CD or tape.
Spend time with public who make you feel excellent about yoursel—public who treat you well. Avoid public who treat you terribly.
Make your living space a place that honors the person you are. Whether you live in a single room, a small apartment, or a large home, make that space comfortable and attractive for you. If you share your living space with others, have some space that is just for you–a place where you can keep your things and know that they will not be disturbed and that you can decorate any way you choose.
Show items that you find attractive or that remind you of your achievements or of special times or public in your life. If cost is a business, use your creativity to reckon of inexpensive or free ways that you can add to the comfort and enjoyment of your space.
Make your meals a special time. Turn off the television, radio, and stereo. Set the table, even if you are eating alone. Light a candle or place some flowers or an attractive object in the center of the table. Arrange your food in an attractive way on your plate. If you eat with others, promote discussion of pleasant topics. Avoid discussing hard issues at meals.
Take advantage of opportunities to learn something new or improve your skills. Take a class or go to a seminar. Many adult education programs are free or very inexpensive. For those that are more costly, question about a possible scholarship or fee reduction.
Start doing those things that you know will make you feel better about yourself—like going on a diet, beginning an exercise curriculum or keeping your living space clean.
Do something nice for another person. Smile at someone who looks sad. Say a few kind words to the check-out cashier. Help your partner with an unpleasant chore. Take a meal to a friend who is sick. Send a card to an acquaintance. Volunteer for a worthy organization.
Make it a top to treat yourself well every day. Before you go to bed each night, write about how you treated yourself well during the day.
You may be doing some of these things now. There will be others you need to work on. You will find that you will continue to learn new and better ways to take care of yourself. As you incorporate these changes into your life, your self admire will continue to improve. You should now have some new sobriey tools in your arsenal.
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Jo M says:

I’m so sorry about the lost loved one, but studies show that positive thinking is way better for you, and you can live a long healthy life. To overcome depression, reckon only positive. Like about the lost loved one, reckon that they are not gone, but will always be with you in spirit. Also, if there were some dark shady things in your past, don’t reckon about it. Instead, always look to the a larger and brighter future. Also, reckon about how you change this world and making it a better place. Reckon about why you live, like, do you live to help children public, or that you are just making public pleased by living. And if there is someone you don’t like and know they don’t like you too, don’t fret! It just adds unnessesary stress. Also reckon about things that make you pleased. And when you get sad, reckon about them. Depression could be caused by unnessesary stres, so do an excercise that makes you feel relieved, like tai chi or yoga. Even listening to relaxing composition can help. Hope this helps!

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