Emmet Fox - Take a Vacation--from Yourself! #essentialsofrec #Recovery #Change

During the summer when vacations are in order, it is a good time to take a vacation from yourself. Of course, you cannot leave your body at home and go off somewhere, but nevertheless, you can change your mind and your habits of living so that for practical purposes you will be taking a vacation from yourself.

Here are a few simple suggestions:

1) Change your habits of thought. Be sure to eliminate all resentment, criticism, and condemnation of yourself as well as others, no matter how plausible the pretext for harboring them.

2) Change your habits of eating. Include some new articles of food that you have not been in the habit of eating--and drop some of the old ones.

3) Keep your prayers fresh, new, and simple. Get away from the usual phrases and affirmations.

4) Rearrange, if possible, your order of work at the office or shop. Resolve any old grievances.

5) Reorganize your recreation and leisure. Add some new pastime and eliminate some of the old ones. Try reading a different newspaper and get acquainted with other magazines than those to which you are accustomed.

6) Drop all cares and worries about politics, business and the foreign situation. You will be surprised to find that the world will manage to struggle on somehow.

Take a vacation from yourself--and you might like the change well enough to make it permanent.

Fox, Emmet (2010-09-07). Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within (pp. 72-73). Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

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