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- Jul 15, 2024
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This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12
Pancake Marathon
I have this moment to choose, yes we all do; it's the simple fact of how I will act and not react. seeing my part within before I cause pain and if I do cause pain how do I Come to a point of Taking responsibility for my actions; for that is what step 10 is all about.
You may think that there are a thousand different things being done in recovery, really there's just a thousand different ways of saying a few simple things.
Seeing my part and taking responsibility for it
Taking a step back and realizing
Putting the work in so that I can realize
acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon
It's a simple fact of the matter, how do I q-tip; getting to a point of living life and last terms. Being able to stay teachable and at the same point being able to get more than I take; far I know it's okay to get angry and be upset and have emotions: It's just the simple fact of the matter of feelings aren't facts, from the simplicity of that moment, do I need to act accordingly within how I'm feeling or how I want the outcome within my actions from me playing the whole tape: It's them that feelings aren't facts.
For I know what I feel, this uneasy anger. If not, just what is me being triggered upon itself to simply say, and yet, simply to say the point is that life is not meant to be taken. So seriously, I know that there are those out there that say you have to be serious about working the steps and yet simply to say how I carry the message. My message is that it's not meant to be so serious; you got to be committed and honest within how you practice the principles in all your affairs and yet simply to say being so serious is to me using and being busy: as what is an active in addiction/ Even know that may be what is simply your recovery.
Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives
Slogans (underlined) blog page Acronyms (bold) blog page Principles (italic): A.A. files
Step 12/to give where credit is due I got all of these readings from "recovery HQ" _ but I put them in a Living life on life's terms and to Better care of the message and you can actually find all of them in Daily Readings and Inspirations
Spiritual principle a day: Regular Inventory and Meaningful Commitments
Page 203
"If there was anything in our lives that required a regular commitment, chances are that we only followed through if it wasn't too hard, if it didn't get in the way of our self-indulgence, or if we happened to feel like it."
NA Step Working Guides, Step Ten, "Spiritual Principles"
Being committed is more than just doing something over and over or showing up when and where we said we would. Commitment involves a conscious decision. We consider what we need or want, what we think is right, and what we are willing to devote our resources to. We take the time to think about benefits and drawbacks, time and energy required, other existing obligations, and whether we are willing to be willing when our enthusiasm goes away.
Our past experiences with phrases like "going to any lengths" and "no matter what" were quite different from commitment in a healthy, spiritual practice. Even in recovery, we remain compulsive. As creatures of habit, we may find ourselves repeating behaviors even when we don't want to. This can show up in our commitments. We keep a commitment out of habit or because no one else has stepped up. We commit impulsively and then back out just as impulsively. Or we stick to an unwanted commitment, resenting ourselves and the commitment from start to finish. In time, we learn a healthier approach.
The daily inventory of Step Ten can improve our ability to make and keep commitments. Reflecting on our lives each day teaches us a great deal about ourselves, including the types of commitments to which we are and are not well suited. Regular inventory helps us become more disciplined and self-aware, and we experience further relief from defects and shortcomings. We grow, and our commitments become deeper and more meaningful as a result.
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Commitment is more than just showing up. Today I will draw on Step Ten and honor my commitments with mind, heart, and spirit.
Keep It Simple: Let there be spaces in your togetherness.---Kahil Gilran
We all need time alone. Then we can get to know our Higher Power better too.
When we were using chemicals, we were afraid of being alone. We didn't want to think too much. So we got high.
Now we know we're never totally alone. Our Higher Power is with us. We can relax. We can rest. We can think, read, and meditate. We can our own best friend.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me use my time alone to know myself better. Help me get to know You too.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll plan to spend two hours alone to get to know myself better. I could take a long walk, or enjoy a park, or my garden. What will I do, and when?
NA Just For Today: Relations With Others
"We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all." Step Eight
All human beings struggle with self-centeredness. The chronic self-centeredness that lies at the very core of addiction makes that struggle doubly difficult for people like us. Many of us have lived as if we believed we were the last people on earth, utterly blind to the effect our behavior has had on those around us.
The Eighth Step is the process our program has given us to honestly examine our past relationships. We take a look at the writing we did on our Fourth Step to identify the effects our actions had on the people in our lives. When we recognize harm done to some of those people, we become willing to take responsibility for our actions by making amends to them.
The variety of people we encounter in our day and the quality of our relations with them determines, to a great extent, the quality of our very lives. Love, humor, excitement, caring - the things that make life worth living derive much of their meaning from being shared with others. Understanding this, we want to discover the true nature of our relationships with other people and mend whatever breaks we may find in those relations. We want to work the Eighth Step.
Just for today: I want to fully enjoy the companionship of my fellows. I will examine my relationships with the people in my life. Where I find I've harmed others, I will seek the willingness to make amends to them. pg. 205
Daily Reflections: PRIDE
For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance.
When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been our lack of humility. We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 71
Time and again I approached the Seventh Step, only to fall back and regroup. Something was missing and the impact of the Step escaped me. What had I overlooked? A single word: read but ignored, the foundation of all the
Steps, indeed the entire Alcoholics Anonymous program - that word is "humbly". I understood my shortcomings:
I constantly put tasks off; I angered easily; I felt too much self-pity; and thought, why me? Then I remembered,
"Pride goeth before the fall," and I eliminated pride from my life.
What is this page about/seems to be as:
simple literature Organized by Pancake Marathon: Daily Readings and Inspirations
Read It to me of the literature of recovery
Where I talk about my recovery journey
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