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09-01-2013, 01:24 AM | #1 | |
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If you have to control it, it is already out of control!
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09-01-2013, 01:29 AM | #2 | |
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Surrender doesn't mean to give up. It means give over. Surrender was part of the honesty I needed to find in Step One, admitting I didn't know, made a mistake, willing to open my mind to new ideas and concepts. Just because I had done things for numerous years, didn't mean they were right. I found even in recovery, things in early recovery had to be revised and edited. Many times it was my lack of willingness to let go, I wanted to hang onto those strings, making them conditional, hidden, and many times restoring to denial and lack of willingness to let go. My addiction was always wanting more, so in my recovery, I had to get honest, open my mind, and willing to change. More recovery, not more drugs, no more using other things to hide from what was truly happening in my life. My control in today come from my Through my God, all things are possible. The second half of the first Step, my life is unmanageable when managed by me.
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The Dolphin is the keeper of the sacred breath life, and teaches us how to release emotions. We can breathe (for me take the breathe down to where it needs to be) and breathe out, helping us to release stress, pain, worry, etc., it is a good way to connect with divine energy coming from the Great Spirit. Breathe and allow the life forces to rejuvenate you and let go of anything that blocks you for life's flow, let go of barriers that prevent you from connecting you to the Creator, the God of your understanding. If you don't breathe in life's force, starving your body mind and spirit and not giving it the food it needs. The Dolphin means manna according to Jamie Sams. I take that as life giving force, like the story in the New Testament, who God sent it from heaven to feed the people. When we try to control, we are denying ourselves and blocking ourselves from God's Grace and we limit our God as to what He can do for us. When we only let certain things to enter our lives, the blessings, gifts, and clarity of inner knowing, enlightenment, and lessons in life may pass us by.
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Mentioned the idea of substituting the word control for powerless. We had 3 new comers at the meeting, one his first day back. What do you do when you have a newcomer? You share on Step One. My life is unmanageable when managed by me. When I think I am in control, then I am in deep doo doo. It is only through the God of my understanding that I am able to surrender my all to Him, and He empowers me to do what I need to do on a daily basis. Through Him, all things are possible. Without Him, I am spinning out of control and wondering why I am feeling that way, I have recovery you know!!! I don't have a lot of recovery if I don't remember to take my God with me each day. As we shared, we need to do the 1, 2, 3, Waltz each morning. I can't, my God can, just for today, I choose to let Him.
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