Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Feeling equal to other people is a learned behavior
We compare ourselves to others so automatically that we’re seldom conscious of it. It’s how we measure our worth. Feeling superior or inferior to others might be how we were raised to see the world, but there is another way. From the program we are learning that it’s possible to recognize everyone’s worth, to honor the equality of us all.
Practicing this new perception until it becomes automatic will have a profound impact on every circumstance in our lives. When we feel equal to others, they will no longer intimidate us and we will no longer try to shame them. Conflict will subside. Anxiety will recede. When we acknowledge them and ourselves as valuable, necessary, equal, contributing members of society, we will discover a world far different from the one we have known. And we will feel a peace, a joy, that visited us but rarely.
If I want to be at peace today, I need to remember that I am equal to everyone else.
Hazelden Foundation
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