Monday, March 16, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
If necessity is the mother of invention, then imagination is the father of creative endeavor. It is critically important not to let our inner editor get ahead of our inner artist. So many of us have developed patterns of self-criticism and judgment that can quash our creative imagination before it even begins to find its flow. We know how destructive such tendencies can be and how they have sometimes thwarted our attempts at sobriety.
Imagination exercises our intelligence. It is a vast playground that is the foundation of all innovation and invention. It is where additional possibilities are allowed to incubate, to marinate in our mind, to arise from subterranean and unconscious outposts we don’t normally visit.
What can we imagine for ourselves now that we are in recovery? What lives might we live that are now just flights of fancy, preludes to what might be created? Think about what singing or poetry does to words. We can do that to our own destiny—we just have to start by conceiving it. Those who most inspire us to imagine ourselves at our best are often those who have been through the fire and survived bleak circumstances. We can call upon them to help our inner artist emerge.
I use my imagination to envision a spectacular future for myself.
Hazelden Foundation
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