Help me to face myself, that I may come to face this life as the gift it is. I know today that I need fundamental change in my life to find the happiness and serenity I so desperately sought when I first came into the program. Today, I am no longer under the delusion that my life will get better because I wish it, or if I just stop acting out. Getting down to the causes and conditions helps me change my life for the better. In trusting the process, I had to be willing to do different things to get different results. As uncomfortable as it was, I saw the pain I had caused, and I knew I could not run away from my problems anymore. I trust the program (that is, God) to help me deal with what I found out about myself from doing Steps Four and Five with my sponsor. I also knew that, if I faced them now, I would find the help I needed and maybe some serenity. However, once I got into recovery, I instinctively knew there were underlying problems I had never dealt with. Naturally, my life continued to get worse. ![]() I wanted my life to be different, but the deeper I got into my sex addiction, the less I was willing and able to look at my part. I knew for a long time that something was wrong with me, but I could not pinpoint what it was. I don't have to be ‘greater than' to have value.“Step Six builds on the recognition that our malady has roots that run deeper than just our acting-out behavior.” On this day I will remember that humility keeps me grounded and on equal footing with those around me. We learn to look in the mirror and feel at peace with what we see. But when we use our new tools, we have more self-awareness. ![]() Our insecurities and triggers are often just below the surface, and we can fall into old patterns. And where it was second nature for us to react first and lash out, we now take a step back and examine reality. If we do something for others, the world doesn't have to know. ACA teaches us that humility is the way to inner peace and finding our True Self. In ACA, we learn about humility, and that it has nothing to do with humiliation, a core wound. We may have even further reacted by increasing our efforts to prove our worth. If anyone disagreed with us, it felt like an attack. Most decisions we made were geared to gaining this outward affirmation. When we accomplished things, we expected validation. As we grew, we decided we needed to prove our worth. These wise, loving people have many months, even years of living in accordance with spiritual principles, giving of themselves to others without expecting anything back. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almost superhumanly serene. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare that had it no. Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. I will use them as stepping stones to acknowledging my buried childhood memories and feelings. Today: 07 April.A WIDE ARC OF GRATITUDEAnd, speaking for Dr. ![]() 224Īs children, we may have been humiliated and told we didn't measure up. On this day I will honor healthy boundaries at my ACA meetings. ![]() We begin to become actors rather than reactors to life's situations." BRB p. "With humility, we become more thoughtful in our decisions, and we are slower to anger. Signup for the Traveler/Daily Meditation.International Literature Order Request Form and the presence of a Higher Power keeps me sober, but the grace of God does even better it brings service into my.Free Literature – English and Translated.Update Intergroup or Region Information Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out.
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