Developing your DAILY PRACTICE is about creating a protected time and space in your life that's just for YOU.

Your DAILY PRACTICE is a piece of your day that you've reserved to do the kinds of things that are going to ground you in YOUR TRUE SELF... as well as build up your self-care, self-love, and personal resiliency.

Essentially, your DAILY PRACTICE is a roster of activities that YOU define: readings or reflections that get you feeling centered, balanced, and focused on who YOU want to be -- for yourself, as well as for others.

Imagine, having the power and the self-love to stay true to yourself, even amidst the pressures and storms of life that are beyond your control.

1) Choose some times at the beginning and at the end of the day when you know you'll have a chance to have time to yourself. A 30-minute chunk is what I'd recommend, but it can be shorter if that's all you can manage. Over the next week or so, experiment with both AM and PM times for this Daily Practice.

2) Start out with an experimentation week. Meaning, try filling this Daily Practice time with different types of activities. Some ideas might be: free-writing/journaling; or doing self-reflection about major feelings that day (you can look at your Feelings Lists for reference, which are available on the Resources page of theaddictsguidetotheuniverse.com).

3) Some days, you might want to experiment not just with mental and emotion-focused activities (like journaling), but also with physical activity. Try some slow, gentle stretching or yoga; get out for a walk on a warm evening or morning; or anything that gets your body moving in a way that feels positive. 

4) Other ideas might include letting yourself just listen to music, or putting on a positively-focused audiobook or podcast and letting yourself do NOTHING else but listen. :)

5) Throughout the week, take any notes you need to about which activities felt like they positively influenced your emotional state. Which activities will you want to keep in your daily practice? And, which times of day or settings worked better than others to help you relax or get centered?

EMILY'S DAILY MEDITATION RESOURCES (as seen in video)

24 Hours a Day (Hazelden Publishing)

A New Day: 365 Meditations for Personal and Spiritual Growth (Bantam Publishing)

The Secret: Daily Teachings by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books)

The Daily Laws by Robert Greene (Penguin Books)

The Language of Flowers, edited by Sheila Pickles (Harmony Books)

The Self Planner (Poketo)

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CREATIVE VISUALIZATION by Shakti Gawain is a book that was published in the '70s, but I promise, creative visualization isn't just for New Age hippies!

No, no, my dear Addict friends. When it's done regularly (and vividly!) creative visualization is a daily practice that will bring you closer to the life you authentically desire.

So what is it that makes possible the amazing outcomes that flow from making creative visualization a daily practice for yourself?

❤️ It's not magic.

❤️ It's not miraculous, either... though it will certainly feel that way, once you start experiencing your desired positive changes and outcomes!

❤️ The power of True Love will begin materializing in your life when you start acknowledging and giving energy to your truest desires. That simply means letting them out of your heart, so they can travel up into your mind.

True Love will take care of (most of) the rest.

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1) Get your Feelings List and Good Feelings List, for reference. You'll probably need both, for this one. (Both are available right here in the Universe, under Resources.)

2) Get a piece of paper (typing is fine too) and make two columns: "Current Self" and "Future Self."

3) Choose 12 feelings that describe how you most often feel currently (for your Current Self).

4) Choose 12 feelings, in the other column, that you want your Future Self to experience on a regular basis. Don't confine yourself to what you think is "realistic" -- that's the whole point, to let yourself IMAGINE the ways you would ideally want to feel, on a day-to-day basis.

5) If you want to add more than 12 feelings to either your Current or Future Self, by all means, go ahead! I just like everyone to have a "core 12" as their foundation, here.

6) Look at the differences between the feelings you listed for your Current vs. Future Self. No judgments, please -- just some open-minded reflection, in the minutes, hours, and days afterwards, about how you might begin to move yourself from the left side to the page to the right. What sorts of thoughts and behaviors would prompt the improved emotions in your Future Self?

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Hello, my dear Addict friends! Welcome to the inaugural episode of what I am temporarily, unappeallingly calling "RECOVERY HOMEWORK." The point is, it works and it’s powerful! So grab your self-reflection materials (beautiful journal; notes app on phone; cave wall etchings, etc.) and let's get started!

Today's exercise is called YOUR ADDICT VS. YOUR TRUE SELF, and it's based on the concepts of "Your Addict" and "Your True Self" that I describe in vivid detail in my book, "The Addict's Guide to Recovery." But you don't even have to head to Amazon to buy it in paperback or Kindle to get the gist of this exercise.

1) Divide your writing space into two sides: Your Addict (left side) vs. Your True Self (right side).

2) On the side for "Your Addict," write down as many of the feelings, behavior patterns, negative thoughts, and any other characteristics you can think of that would describe yourself in relation to your drug, or your addiction. Like, my own Addict list would go something like this: "Extremely evasive. Super sketchy. Unpleasantly selfish. Totally greedy. Annoyingly controlling. Unnecessarily contemptuous. Ridiculously impatient. Frequently self-doubting. Incredibly anxious."

3) On the other side, for "Your True Self," do the same thing with regard to all the feelings, behaviors, characteristics, and types of thoughts/beliefs that would describe who you TRULY are inside -- all the good things! And please, don't confine yourself to strengths you've already demonstrated or gotten validation from already. These could be strengths you want to bring out in yourself, in the future. The only criteria is that it comes from an authentic desire inside you. Here's mine: “Positively inspirational. Powerfully calm. Luxuriously decadent. Scandalously original. Freely generous. Unconditionally accepting. Lovingly protective. Playfully disruptive. Solidly committed. Mostly magnanimous.”

4) Check in with yourself regularly by returning to this list and taking an inventory of how you've been feeling, thinking and behaving lately -- have your experiences been dominated by Addict or True Self programming? Please don't judge or berate yourself, either way. Just make a mental note to move towards the "right" side of the page, wherever possible. Center your mind on Your True Self, move your thoughts towards Your True Self, and the good feelings and constructive behaviors that are part and parcel of Your True Self WILL follow. It's just a matter of how often you come back to center yourself on who you want to live as!

5) Repeat and rinse yourself regularly, with love.

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