Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Greysheeters Anonymous by GreySheeters Anonymous

Author:GreySheeters Anonymous [Anonymous, GreySheeters]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781514412688
Publisher: Xlibris US
Published: 2015-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

"God, grant us the Serenity

to accept the things we cannot change,

Courage to change the things we can,

and the Wisdom to know the difference."

Step Eleven Personal Experiences:

Focusing

In childhood, my feeling for God was devotion and trust and later doubt and denial. Now I behave mostly "as if" in different forms and intensities. It somehow works this way.

My prayer is my speech to my Higher Power, mostly asking for help, answers, or inspiration or turning over my problems and experiencing the benefits of relaxation, tranquility, or serenity. I open the mind and connection to the Universe. I pray daily, but not systematically. Prayer and meditation are included in many actions. When anxious, I meditate more, but many times I am overwhelmed and not able to concentrate on meditation at all.

The experience of HP for me is focusing on the fact that somewhere outside, power exists for all actions, and all the answers to my questions reside. All the knowledge I need is not available to me, but I can invoke some through prayer and meditation.

To deepen my conscious contact with that means more praying, with more meditation, more study and connections with others in recovery, and asking to know what is the next right action. Through that, I am more peaceful, have more trust, feel safer, and feel okay with myself.

God is Everything or Nothing

I was one of the spiritually bankrupt or perhaps more accurately, spiritually wounded when I came into recovery. 22 years later, I can affirm without a shadow of a doubt that working this step with the clarity of GS abstinence has graced me with a transformation of mind, body, and spirit - a conversion of the heart. I now have an understanding and a personal experience of the proposition "God is everything or nothing."

I regularly affirm that the power of God is infinitely more powerful than the power of any other force, inside or outside of me, including food addiction, which is why I remain one day at a time a keen, hope-filled, and grateful student on the path of 12 step recovery.

Conscious Contact

What is important in Step Eleven is the word 'conscious.' "We sought through conscious contact" means that I don't have to wish for something abstract or feel it. Instead, I consciously choose to have faith and to do the actions of prayer. I don't see the part of "praying only for his will" to mean that I never am allowed to express wishes, desires, or concerns while praying or during daily life. Chanting for my goals and the willingness to do the actions to achieve them and chanting for others are important because it is normal to wish, to have desires, to have fears, and to have feelings. When actions support the prayers, HP's will shows up. I'm doing the actions, and the outcomes are not always in my power.

Seeking in my Daily Life

The key word for me in this step beside God is 'Sought,' which means to me that I must constantly seek God in my daily life.

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