Back to the Steps

[caressa]

Go back to the Steps. Go back to the Step.

When we don't know what to do next, when we feel confused, upset, distraught, at the end of our rope, overwhelmed, full of self-will, rage, or despair, go back to the Steps.

No matter what situation we are facing, working a Step will help. Focus on one, trust your instincts, and work it.

What does it mean to work a Step? Think about it. Meditate on it. Instead of focusing on the confusion, the problems, or the situation causing our despair or rage, focus on the Step.

Think about how that Step might apply. Hold on to it. Hang on as tightly as we hang on to our confusion or the problem.

The Steps are a solution. They work. We can trust them to work.

We can trust where the Steps will lead us.

When we don't know what step to take next, take on of the Twelve.

Today I will concentrate on using the Twelve Steps to solve problems and keep me in balance and harmony. I will work a Step to the best of my ability. I will learn to trust the Steps, and rely on them instead of on my protective, codependent behaviors.Melody Beattie - Language of Letting Go

Yes I know it is cut and paste, yet it is something I need for me and it is about the Steps. It was a message that spoke to me when I read it. I actually did do a Step Eleven this morning and what I got was to direct my energies into something postive.

In my Osho reading it said, "Whenever you act unconsiously, without awareness, you are in hell; whenever you are consious, whenever you act with full awareness, you are in heaven."

Well it appears I was in hell because I was so fatigued I laid down. I got up and it was 2 minutes after 12 and I had missed my meeting. There was a part of me that said, "Well you can meet the girls for coffee after." I made myself a roast beef sandwich, cut my finger, and it didn't want to stop bleeding. I got a call from the library to say that three books I ordered are in. I can find lots of excuses to go out, but not sure that I am going. I have to go to the foot specialist tomorrow and can do the market and the library at the same time. It was -8 deg. celsius this morning and it has warned up to -2. If I don't have any other diversions, I may make it yet. It seems to be a lot of energy to get dressed again to go out. The coffee shop is only 2 blocks away, mind you, the meeting was only 5, but some days that seems like a mile.

Looks like a good time to do the 1, 2, 3, Waltz.

[majestyjo]

Many talk aboout the Big Book, but if it wasn't for the 12 Steps, I would not be clean and sober today. For me, the Steps are important for my emotional sobriety. Anger, jealousy, resentments, and guilt (to name a few)are feelings that often take people back out.

When you get to Step 12, you go back to Step One, and hopefully you will heal and grow as you go through the Steps again. When in doubt, go back to Step One.

[majestyjo]

Go back to the Steps. Go back to the Step.

When we don't know what to do next, when we feel confused, upset, distraught, at the end of our rope, overwhelmed, full of self-will, rage, or despair, go back to the Steps.

No matter what situation we are facing, working a Step will help. Focus on one, trust your instincts, and work it.

What does it mean to work a Step? Think about it. Meditate on it. Instead of focusing on the confusion, the problems, or the situation causing our despair or rage, focus on the Step.

Think about how that Step might apply. Hold on to it. Hang on as tightly as we hang on to our confusion or the problem.

The Steps are a solution. They work. We can trust them to work.

We can trust where the Steps will lead us.

When we don't know what step to take next, take on of the Twelve.

Today I will concentrate on using the Twelve Steps to solve problems and keep me in balance and harmony. I will work a Step to the best of my ability. I will learn to trust the Steps, and rely on them instead of on my protective, codependent behaviors.Melody Beattie - Language of Letting Go

Amen!!