More of everything hadn't brought serenity. In step three, we turned our will over to God. Now we seek to pray in a new way to learn God's will for us. Prayer involves the humility that comes from recognizing that we are not the same as God, and we are turning to God for help. Prayer involves honesty about what we truly need and how we really feel.
Prayer involves commitment to continuing recovery from our addiction.
Meditation is used in our program to clear our minds of our money concerns, the sales at the malls, advertisements, our wish list and all outside distractions. We need to become quiet and at peace so that we can hear God's will for us. For many of us this is a new and difficult task. We surround ourselves with distractions so that we won't have to be alone with our God and ourselves. As with everything new, practice makes it easier.