Post by THE TENTH PROMISE on Mar 1, 2004 5:41:58 GMT -5
Although our recovery program is simple, it is not easy. The tenth promise addresses this: We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. Experience teaches us to stop complicating everything. We are told, "If it works, don’t fix it."
As drinkers, life was never easy or unhurried. In recovery, we grow emotionally through countless lessons that are a joy to experience and live the philosophy of Easy Does It or One Day At a Time. Time is a great teacher and each approach to life that we master stays with us forever. Like riding a bicycle, recovery may be puzzling at first but, once we learn, we will never forget.
The tenth promise guarantees that, as our sobriety continues and strengthens, we will grow spiritually. An intuitive know-how indicates change and change means progress. Even though change is constant, we will never reach perfection because humans never attain perfection.
In early recovery, a major change we experience is our growing concern for other people. It is said all humans are born selfish and addiction accentuates this trait. In sobriety, we begin to care about others. Changes come – sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly – but always surely.
Working the Steps of Recovery will be the foundation for our intuition in solving problems. We can benefit from the advice others give us and we can replace old useless ideas with workable ones. A large part of intuition involves faith. We experience an awareness of reality and our thought process becomes more mature. We instinctively begin to do the right thing at the right time.
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For me it is about applying the spiritual principles to my life. I no longer think "Well I need to have a Step Six for this, or a little of Step Three would be good now!"
It has just become a sense of being, and a way of thinking. I had to live my way into good thinking, not think my way into good living. Just thinking about it doesn't bring about the action. As they say, the road is paved with good intensions, but it never took us very far.
As drinkers, life was never easy or unhurried. In recovery, we grow emotionally through countless lessons that are a joy to experience and live the philosophy of Easy Does It or One Day At a Time. Time is a great teacher and each approach to life that we master stays with us forever. Like riding a bicycle, recovery may be puzzling at first but, once we learn, we will never forget.
The tenth promise guarantees that, as our sobriety continues and strengthens, we will grow spiritually. An intuitive know-how indicates change and change means progress. Even though change is constant, we will never reach perfection because humans never attain perfection.
In early recovery, a major change we experience is our growing concern for other people. It is said all humans are born selfish and addiction accentuates this trait. In sobriety, we begin to care about others. Changes come – sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly – but always surely.
Working the Steps of Recovery will be the foundation for our intuition in solving problems. We can benefit from the advice others give us and we can replace old useless ideas with workable ones. A large part of intuition involves faith. We experience an awareness of reality and our thought process becomes more mature. We instinctively begin to do the right thing at the right time.
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For me it is about applying the spiritual principles to my life. I no longer think "Well I need to have a Step Six for this, or a little of Step Three would be good now!"
It has just become a sense of being, and a way of thinking. I had to live my way into good thinking, not think my way into good living. Just thinking about it doesn't bring about the action. As they say, the road is paved with good intensions, but it never took us very far.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.