Alcoholics Anonymous | June 24 | DonInLondon | Step 6 "Let Go"
Channel: Don DonInLondon
Date: 2011-06-24

June 24 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous [Full daily blog link: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.com/] Today's AA daily reflection: "a spiritual kindergarten..." All humans are part of the school of hard knocks and brickbats, the school of happiness and joy, I think it might be called life on life's terms. "Spiritual," living in the moment is all about all our senses working right now. And anything which impairs our view of beautiful reality or ugly reality takes away our ability to learn and cope as we go...

Ed wrote to me and said the most illuminating times can be the last six months on the way to recovery and the first six months into recovery. The sharp relief between life lived in oblivion and turning on the lights to life lived in reality in my case for the first time since childhood probably. All the emotions struggling inside to come out and churning me up as I expressed them. After a while emotions are working in the moment and we get to see how reality works just for today...

Nature has given us all these emotions for a reason. Some emotions might be seen and described as defects of character. Any emotion which does not inform us of our real situation, our mood in particular can be really at an extreme. All the extreme emotion highlights we are not in touch with reality as it is, or indeed we are in an extreme situation. With romance, an obsession to love and possess another when they don't want us. Financial, to be a millionaire without the work... To take from others that which we have no right to...

The whole world is a spiritual kindergarten, each one of us and there are now over seven billion learning what it is to be a human being and how to relate to the world and real life as it is today. In fellowship we can see the personal growth and development not only of ourselves, especially those around us as we continue in recovery. Sometimes quickly and often in my case quite slowly I'm enjoying and living the emotional and spiritual principles one day at a time...

In recovery all these suppressed feelings which have been hidden from us come out and can be very hard to understand for example, love... Real love without conditions. Self-hate and self-prejudice make it difficult to understand what love is. Starting over every single day and in any moment is really useful. We need to understand our feelings especially when they are extreme. It is not sitting with a feeling, we are experiencing a feeling. Knowing my mood, how it impacts on my thinking helps me to appropriate actions today...

DonInLondon 2005-2012 [Full daily blog link: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.com/] 

AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm
AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=359

Step 6. "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" At this point, it would be a good idea to look again at our sharing in step five, where we define character and list a 

number of our defects. Completing step 5, we have compiled a list of the character defects. Step six is concerned with our spiritual willingness to have these defects of character removed, 

contingent on each day we meditate and pray in good conscience, and or to God as we understand for ourselves. Seven billion humans, seven billion outlooks and defintions about God every day... 

yours is as good as it gets today...

Step 6 "Spiritual Willingness" Reading Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M32D2S_A-g
June Video Reading Chapter Six Into Action Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVuLKhdqk8

I do not speak for Alcoholics Anonymous I speak for myself. Spiritual principles ~ Forgiveness Acceptance Surrender Faith Open-mindedness Honesty Willingness Moral-inventory Amends Humility 

Persistence Spiritual-growth Service

Email | don@doninlondon.com
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