{"id":15596,"date":"2015-03-04T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=15596"},"modified":"2015-03-05T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:58:47","slug":"before-trouble-comes-h-a-l-t-on-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/before-trouble-comes-h-a-l-t-on-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Before trouble comes &#8220;H.A.L.T&#8221; (on awareness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading the book by Brennan Manning called, <strong>&#8220;The Wisdom of Tenderness&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=thbloflicode-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B003YCOP2U&amp;asins=B003YCOP2U&amp;linkId=MZX6MTXUNC2WUUL4&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is a gem I read today on page 107 and that I found\u00a0really potent.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan Manning died last year, and he is probably best known for writing the Ragamuffin Gospel. He accumulated a lot of wisdom through life, but it didn&#8217;t come cheap. Poor choices, wrong turns, and hard lessons molded him into a person of great compassion and grace\u2013a sage for the poor in spirit and those smart enough to listen. Many sought him out for his wisdom.  <\/p>\n<p><em>When Manning came into recovery as\u00a0an alcoholic he learned a buzzword from\u00a0AA (Alcoholics\u00a0Anonymous). They\u00a0use it as a way to create greater awareness in a person who is vulnerable to slipping back into alcohol abuse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 They stay on the lookout for <strong>four qualities<\/strong> that make them\u00a0susceptible to relapse and are encouraged to seek help when they identify them\u00a0occurring in their life. Before they take a sip they look for the signs and call for backup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15597\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/halt.jpeg\" alt=\"halt\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/halt.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/halt-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/halt-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/halt-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>H.A.L.T.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>H &#8211;<\/strong> Hungry (not just for food, but a longing in general)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A &#8211; <\/strong>Angry (or stressed, or frustrated)<\/p>\n<p><strong>L &#8211; <\/strong>Lonely (or rejected, or left out)<\/p>\n<p><strong>T &#8211; <\/strong>Tired (often tired from helping others or being otherwise overcommitted)<\/p>\n<p>People in AA have to rely on\u00a0each other to find support and avoid the demon booze. People in AA need to cultivate an awareness of their vulnerabilities to avoid a slide into dangerous, even life-threatening, behavior. But, don&#8217;t we all need help in the same sorts of ways? We engage in all sorts of bad habits from over eating, to binge tv watching, trolling on Facebook, eating a pint of ice cream out of the box, to watching or reading\u00a0licentious\u00a0content, to pill popping..<em>..or whatever&#8230;it&#8217;s probably very different for each person.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we don&#8217;t even realize our feelings or how we are trying to soothe our selves.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s develop the\u00a0awareness to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">halt<\/span>\u00a0and seek help when we get run down, over-extended, or when\u00a0we find ourselves feeling in some way hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. It can be the escape route from trouble, bad choices. It is awareness at the heart of any meaningful transformation or spiritual growth.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be able to know to H.A.L.T. before trouble?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post other tidbits as I find them. Enjoy the book for yourself if you can. You can get it used for pocket change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of &#8220;H.A.L.T. awareness&#8221;&#8230;The acronym &#8220;halt&#8221; means&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,5626,76],"tags":[116,6306,176,177,179,220,4985,4378,372,5325,459,3909,612,641,774,5643,946,4377,4697,1071,6247,1191,4374,1269,27,1520,1524,1550,6508,1565,1604,1616,1732,5804,4716,1763,4081,2016,6132,6266,2071,2367,4069,2521,2602,5651,4798,2782,2800,4079,3082,3178,3184,74,5094,6004,3481,3522,3711,4264,3768],"class_list":["post-15596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spark-my-muse","category-spirituality","tag-aa","tag-abuse","tag-alcohol","tag-alcohol-abuse","tag-alcoholic","tag-angry","tag-bad","tag-be","tag-behavior","tag-best","tag-book","tag-booze","tag-change","tag-choices","tag-compassion","tag-dangerous","tag-demon","tag-do","tag-down","tag-eating","tag-enough","tag-facebook","tag-feeling","tag-feelings","tag-food","tag-gospel","tag-grace","tag-growth","tag-h-a-l-t","tag-habits","tag-heart","tag-help","tag-hungry","tag-ice-cream","tag-if","tag-in","tag-just","tag-life","tag-listen","tag-lonely","tag-longing","tag-not","tag-over-eating","tag-people","tag-poor","tag-post","tag-power","tag-reading","tag-recovery","tag-right","tag-signs","tag-spirit","tag-spiritual","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-support","tag-tired","tag-transformation","tag-tv","tag-will","tag-wisdom","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21558,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions\/21558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}