While we realize that change is both important and necessary, we will have a tendency to stay the same, to not change. We are creatures of habit in just about everything that we do in life. For us to change we will have to do a variety of things, most of them counter to how we have been doing business in life, sometimes for years. First we have to outline what it is we need to do. For this we will need help from others, through counsel or sponsorship. Second we need to create a schedule that will give us the opportunity to implement what we have come to believe is necessary for our transformation. Third, we have to stay committed to the program that we have created and realize that it will take time, that it will not happen immediately or over night. We have to be patient and persistent. Realizing that our tendency though is to stay the same give us power to transform our life.
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Stay Present to My Thoughts and Thinking
The work of transformation is about the power of your thoughts. It is about altering your thoughts to experience life differently. To alter your thoughts and thinking pattern first requires that you are present to it. Present to it in the sense that you are aware of what you are thinking. Many just go through life not getting that their thinking is that which is creating their experiences. Ones thoughts and thinking pattern is the cause in the matter. I am attracting and creating experiences from my source, my thoughts and thinking pattern. My thinking is the key to the process of transformation. We create our experiences and all that is in it rather than the outside world creating us. Once we get that, that we are always creating our experiences with our thinking, we will start to life transformation. It is a process of waking up gradually to our own internal power.
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Dan Millman’s book, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior” is another book that is showing up in recovery. Once read you will understand why. There are several distinctions that are very powerful for one in recovery. The first is the distinction between Knowledge and Wisdom, between knowing something and doing it. For the Warrior, the second distinction, the highest purpose of a human is to be of service to another human. The third distinction, taking out the trash, is about the trash in your mind that keeps you out of the present moment, your true point of power. The fourth distinction that Millman talks about is the fact that we are afraid of what is inside us and that the only place to find what you need is inside you. The fifth distinction is about making sure you are paying attention to your addiction. Many in recovery do not pay attention to what is going on, to what they are experiencing.
Power of Thought and Recovery
Those in recovery begin to transform their lives when they start to get the power of their thought. When they start to get that their thinking is the true cause of much of what they are experiencing. The difficulty for some in getting this, and using it, is that they have to begin to give up blame and start to assume responsibility for their life. The feel of success will keep them from transforming their life. The belief that they are not good enough will keep them from true transformation and happiness. When one believes that he or she is not good enough there will be no experience of a connection with God or spirit.
