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July 11 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 7 Courage To Change Alcoholics Anonymous [ Full daily blog link: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.com/ ] Today's AA daily reflection: "a turning point and in my case answers not invented by me..." Gone are the days where I reject answers to critical questions which affect my life and I have not found the solutions by myself. Step seven, all about humility which is to keep learning and accept that many of the answers about life are out there in the world and not inside me. It is okay not to know anything today and find out... In the fellowship big book, there is appendix II which describes the spiritual experience. Whether we are religious or nonreligious, the spiritual experience is always happening right now. And as Herbert Spencer suggested, "contempt prior to investigation" closes the door on learning through experience how life really works in the moment of now. Those who ridicule and undermine a person learning anything at any time of life, block the spiritual development of those around them. Let go and let people learn their path in life, and the twelve steps open the door to each person learning and having their spiritual experience in the moment of now and just as reality is today... It takes time to let go old ideas, old attitudes and behaviours. Just because we think we know the answers, to whatever it is, the answers may not be applicable to anyone else but us as individuals. My spiritual path is mine, your spiritual path is yours and although we may exist in the same time and place, how we understand the world and our spiritual experiences can be quite different, we have similarities and very justifiable differences today... Self prejudice is the worst and most awful state, where we are still confused about the ism we have. As we recover and find ourselves with more clean time, we forget the horror of the addiction when we start to judge newcomers and their struggles. Maybe we do need to challenge our humility every day. Recovery, as the days pass and we return to a more normal existence makes us forgetful of our condition, sober one day. As we can let go self prejudice, our prejudice can easily be transferred to newcomers and those who slip from time to time... Ignorance is bliss? Ignorance simply means not knowing something. And I have never been happy with the adage, and I do not believe that ignorance is bliss. In recovery, we need knowledge and to ask the help on a daily basis and be in touch with recovery, lest we forget. Chapter 5 in the big book, describes how it works, that is how recovery works. And how to go about recovery in the chapter six, "into action." Everything based on learning life all over again, simply and always just for today... Good news yesterday, I been waiting for an impacted wisdom tooth is to be extracted and a cancellation came up and I was able to get to the specialist in time. No time for fear, no time for brave face and only just enough time to start reciting the serenity prayer in my head, as the wisdom tooth was taken out much to my surprise without any pain and without any fear, apart from five minutes of white knuckles... And today still no pain, although I have taken two paracetamol just in case... DonInLondon [ 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 7 "Step 7 Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings" "The way we have come to look at humility is that it is a virtue, one of the principles that AA teaches us to live. The definition we have adopted pictures us as standing naked before God, without pretense nor reservation. It means hiding nothing, being our real selves, both good and bad. A good synonym for humility is honesty." BB Bunch -/- Step 7 "Courage To Change" Reading Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/...