Step 11 and into 12

11- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with this Power, praying only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out.

12- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

So in Step 11 we grew our relationship to God (a Power greater than ourselves) because we spent time focused on discussion with and then listening to this Power. We learned from references to the Back to Basics program http://www.aabacktobasics.org/ that our spiritual awakening has been happening all along and the we have had Help to take personal inventory and as a matter of fact, we have been receiving Spiritual help since we recognized in step 1 that we were powerless over our situation. We have tried to do daily inventories and set things straight immediately (or at least expressed ourselves somehow) as our emotional condition starting getting out of hand. Two way prayer, to varying degrees has started us on a path to Spiritual Freedom. The world and its ways will ever interfere but God's hand (a Power) in our lives is directing us more and more to the areas of life that matter (who we are, purpose, service, love, truth, faith, the moment, right relationship, RECOVERY) and away from those things that have us ever-comparing our worldliness to the less fortunate souls around us by demonstrating our power, property, prestige and lifestyle.

Now we take a somewhat more spiritually mature being (you or me) into the arena of life with a much greater purpose "to give away this Spirituality that we have been graced with, by finding those who suffer as we do and sharing our stories with them". God's magic (a Power greater than our self) will surely do the rest.

One of the Serenity Program 12 step commentators uses 1 Corinthians 15:10 in a sharing on step 12 where Paul says "But for the grace of God I am what I am..." Each and everyone one of us has a very special purpose and those of us in 12 step recovery have been blessed with a roadmap for sharing our recovery blessings with others.

"Lord please grant us the energy, sense of purpose and determination to seek out and share our common burdens and solutions with those who are still outside of recovery and may Your will be done in every life we touch. Amen!"

Its all about sharing now!!

Back To Basics

I personally owe a lot to the http://www.aabacktobasics.org/ program. The dedication of this man to bring RECOVERY back to what it was and CAN be again is remarkable. The following email just sent to Wally P earlier today, I felt was significant and worth posting:

A quick note of encouragement and thanks for your program. I am an Al-Anon member who has gone through the 4 sessions 3 times so far. We are especially interested in how we spread it outside the world of common addiction and more specifically for those affected in relationship (we all qualify) regardless the type of problem the significant other has or none. We certainly all qualify as members of the fallen race and we all certainly need recovery. Presently we are doing the last (session 4) with 11 participants. The two ladies leading are Al-Anon ladies, two others of us are from Al-Anon and the balance from AA. It is going wonderfully!

Personally Wally, my life is Recovery and I have tried in a way to do my part through the Sharing The Burden and associated blog. Please visit follow us and comment as you wish:
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If you read through some of my sharings you will see that I refer often to your Back To Basics program. I sincerely hope some have found you through it!

I will end with this thought for now Wally, that you would ponder this idea. We have in many cases used the 2-way prayer format as suggested but have expanded it with even greater results by suggesting 2 people do it together as follows: one (the leader) writes the concern out and does the praying for the other (with the CONCERN). The only job for the person being prayed over is to listen, observe, be aware and to report all verbally. The leader records and during quiet times prays again asking specifically what the recordings mean in reference to the CONCERN. Now more listening, writing clarifying and so on and so on.... Wally the results are overwhelming!

Let's stay connected bro!

11=Spiritual Solutions For That Relationship

Using 2-way prayer in step 11 to solve relational problems while building that All-Important relationship to God. We will use the original 12 step prayer system taught in the 40's where Chaplain John E. Batterson writes:

RESULTS- We never know what swimming is like until we get down into the water and try. We will never what this is like until we sincerely try it.

Every person who has tried this honestly finds that a wisdom, not their own comes into their minds and that a Power greater than human power begins to operate in their lives. It is an endless adventure.

There is a way of life for everyone, everywhere. Anyone can be in touch with the Living God, anywhere, anytime, if we fulfill His conditions:
When man listens God speaks,
When man obeys, God acts.

How to listen:
Take Time-quiet and undisturbed
2-Relax, there is no hurry
3-Tune In-Open your heart to God-"Lord God what is Your plan for my life today, please help me with my problem of_____________!"
4-Be still, in awareness of your thoughts impressions, sensations, anything and everything that is happening.
5-Write-this is the key. Write absolutely everything, I hear this....just saw mom's picture....what a great smell...I am feeling sick or nauseous...I am thinking of when i used to play... etc etc Record it all and go back to God from time to time and ask how these things are answers to this or that
6-Test the thoughts you feel are indicative of action before taking the action. Are they honest pure unselfish and loving. Any doubt here requires further prayer and possibly the help of another 2-way prayer walker
7-Obey, take the action. Step out for God who cannot steer your boat if it's not moving!

BE PATIENT AND WHEN FRUSTRATED LEAVE IT FOR A BIT AND COME BACK. KEEP CLOSE TO WHATEVER HELPS YOU FEEL SPIRITUAL WHILE IN 2-WAY PRAYER. I DO IT WITH AN OPEN BIBLE WITHIN REACH AT ALL TIMES. FOR ME THE REPRESENTATION OF GOD'S WORD REINFORCES MY FAITH.
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What does STB and Scott do?

A friend asked recently what exactly I did with Sharing The Burden. This person was trying to expand my horizons and wanted some guidelines. I answered her as follows (this may or may not be of interest, but don't worry we still have a few more days to work step 11, so keep coming back):

Sharing The Burden and I provide Spiritual solutions to earthly problems;
-main focus is the 12 step solution based on the original format where AA achieved a 75% documented success for alcoholics.
-Sharing The Burden introduces 12 step recovery to anyone who feels her/his life may be improved by a Spiritual Solution. The Focus to date has been people affected by relationships (often involving such things as addiction, emotional/mental illness, criminal activity-generally families or friends of these damaged people)
-the proven tool of 2-way prayer very quickly demonstrates to those who would follow our simple path, that there are accessible answers and yes Spiritual answers received through the simple prayer process
-we can help setup 12 step meetings for churches, corporations, educational and correctional institutions.
-being completely up front about our 12 step Spiritual solutions and not claiming to be professional therapists of any kind, we neither qualify for any type coverage such as OHIP nor would insurance solutions be a way of compensation. We therefore must charge for our time in setting up programs (rates avail upon request) and for one on one (families and groups included) introduction and 12 step counselling (charges avail upon request). This generally would last for up to 6 visits when we would recommend that that our candidate go to an established 12 step program appropriate to his/her situation. These programs do not have fees and traditionally manage through their own voluntary contributions. We believe that 12 step meetings should always be self sufficient this way and that no one should ever feel she/he must pay for a meeting. No shame or guilt whatsoever should ever be attached to some one's ability or decision to contribute or not and in whatever amount. Original 12 steppers learned in a hurry that money could never be any part of the motivation for this type of recovery; they knew the Spiritual values would be diminished or lost all together if such as the worldly values of property, power and prestige were allowed in any way to come into the program. All are equal in 12 step recovery and must know it in order to share well!
-some may prefer a one on one type of personal counselling involving 12 step recovery. They are always welcome but would be asked to pay (fees avail upon request).

- http://www.sharingtheburden.ca/ has info that may be of value-see power point and brochure

- http://sharingtheburden.blogspot.com/ is used by Scott to share his personal working of the 12 step program month by month working specifically and in depth, the step corresponding to the month (Step 12 would be worked during 12th month or December etc). This is a great way for someone to familiarize herself/himself with my direction in this area.

Hope this of value to you in your efforts to recover!

Have you done step 11

Let's do test using back to basics www.aabacktobasics.com references:

Did we have our quiet times?

Did we pray for specific guidance for our lives?

Did we write out thoughts and experiences as they came to us?

Did we take each thought and test it for self-will? Was it unselfish, honest pure and loving. If not let's talk to another 2-way prayer person and possibly pray together for clarity wherever needed.

Did we go the distance in our prayer efforts-praying sometimes about issues we are afraid to approach in case the answer is the one we do not want?

DID WE SIMPLY DECIDE THAT THIS FORM OF PRAYER WOULD WORK FOR US AS IT HAS FOR THE THOUSANDS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US?

Are we starting to feel that God has it all under control and that no little nook, secret or difficulty that has, is, or will happen, escapes God's omnipotence and ever-present nature. God knows and is always there!

Conscious contact with the God of all is there for the taking. Will you take it?

These dogs I love so much have shown me a love that I want to offer my God. I fall so short but I see it clearly and can move toward it as I am cleaned and corrected and lifted so many times.

"Oh Lord Your presence is enough no matter how I feel it!"

STEP 11 SOUGHT THROUGH PRAYER AND MEDITATION TO IMPROVE OUR CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH THE POWER (GOD) AS WE UNDERSTAND HIM/HER, PRAYING ONLY FOR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS/HER WILL FOR US AND THE POWER TO CARRY THAT OUT

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Congrats to those who have completed the step and sense a more profound Spiritual connection. If you'll share your experiences NOW, you may get to keep the rewards and you may save someone's very life!! Thanks for your courage in approaching the awesomeness of God! May you farewell and continue to grow on the ONLY journey that counts forever!

Preparing for a Step 11 day

Back To Basics www.aabacktobasics.com again (referencing AA's big book and What is The Oxford Group-an anonymously written text, 1933, where much of the information for the writing of this step 11 came from originally)

Text Suggestions:

Before retiring we review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life?

On awakening let's consider the 24 hours ahead....Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.

Again we see the sequence being taught, pray and then listen and NOW WRITE WRITE WRITE. The Oxford Group said do this so that we may record every God-given thought and idea that comes during our time alone with Him, that no detail, however small, may be lost to us and that we may not shirk the truth about ourselves or any problem, when it comes to us. As always we test our thoughts to ensure they are not our will-are they unselfish honest pure and loving. If not do not act upon them!

THESE PIONEERS SHOW US AGAIN AND AGAIN THAT PRAYER WORKS:

"OH LORD HELP US TO PRAY, TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU AND BUILD OUR REALITY OF YOUR EXISTENCE IN OUR LIVES. MAY WE SEE YOUR WILL FOR EACH OF US TODAY AND MAY WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO SHARE IT THAT AN OTHER'S LOAD BE LESSENED-AMEN!"

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ARRANGE TO TAKE THE 12 STEPS TO FREEDOM WITH US!

12 Steps to Spiritual Recovery!
1- We admitted we were powerless over others-that our lives had become unmanageable.
2- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of that Power.
4- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5- Admitted to this Power, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6- Were entirely ready to have this Power remove all these defects of character.
7- Humbly asked the Power to remove our shortcomings.
8- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with this Power, praying only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out.
12- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
(Many 12 step programs use the word God where we have written Power)





Various Claims of Promise from 12 Steppers

1-We will find ourselves worthy of love and able to love others. We will not lose ourselves.

2-Courage and fellowship will replace fear.

3-Our lives will yield hope to share with others.

4-We will come to know the vastness of our emotions without being in slavery to them.

5-Learning to forgive, we will no longer be bound by our secrets to live in shame.

6-Serenity and peace will have meaning for us.

7-We will allow our lives and the lives of those we love to flow day by day with spiritual ease, balance and grace.

8-Attitude and outlook will be renewed.

9-Intuition will guide us to handle situations that were impossible in the past.

10-We will not regret the past recognizing its value for other sufferers.

11-Selfish interests will fall away as we gain interest in others.

12-Faith and gratitude will replace fear as we realize that a Greater Power is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Profound 11 CREATES 2-WAY PRAYER SCENE

Al-Anon's "Paths To Recovery" asks this question under "Working Step Eleven":
What do I need to have the power to carry out God's Will for me? Have I asked God for that power?

ANSWER ALWAYS BEGINS, I BELIEVE, WITH PRAYER:
"Lord how can I do this thing?"

THEN WRITE WRITE WRITE ANY ALL THOUGHTS AND QUESTION GOD
"Lord I asked You how to do this and all I can think of is the loud sound of birds singing in my yard, what does this mean?"

THEN WRITE WRITE WRITE AND QUESTION
"Lord now I am envisioning my mom many years ago singing by the fireplace. Does mom have something to do with the answer to the power I need to do this?"

And so on and so on!

Trying this honestly and without pressures or coercion always leads to answers. If we can get a co-walker (prayerful 12 stepper hungry for God's Spiritual answers to problems) and exchange the favour of praying for his/her issue and writing out her/his thoughts as they are received, we find that the Power is more profound and answers often come to one or both participants. Seems too simple huh? Well scripture repeatedly calls us to be as little children. The complexities were never a route God recommended. We are the great designers of those!

The original 12 steppers of AA seemed to say if you are ready let's go. Meet, pray and reach out, meet, pray and reach out. Nothing selfish whatever! Let's do what works and God will do the rest as we are obedient to this simple philosophy. This is the Spiritual art of taking care of ourselves. Let it Begin With Me was certainly aimed at the hand out to lift another wouldn't you think?

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Prayer Help

The more we work with 2-way prayer, especially the partnering version where one prays for the other's issue while the person with the issue simply waits and verbalizes every sensation. The praying party writes down every sensation/thought/experience as it happens and then pursues the meaning in prayer eg "Lord Mary has asked for Spiritual direction regarding her relationship with Harry and now she is experiencing a shortness of breath, please make clear the meaning of this!" And the session would go on in similar fashion for a time until one or other feels answers are clear and it's time for discussion; or there may be a lull and a break is needed.

It always amazes me how accurate the answers are and how so much can be understood by simply being aware of what's going on around-listening to the symphony of life by being part of it-absolute effortlessness in action. My sense is that God speaks loud and clear to anyone who is aware of the symphony. It is as though pure awareness is Godly somehow!

The Back To Basics program http://www.aabacktobasics.com/ writes toward the back of the text on the Subject of How To Listen To God; EVERY PERSON WHO HAS TRIED THIS HONESTLY FINDS THAT A WISDOM, NOT THEIR OWN COMES INTO THEIR MINDS AND THAT POWER GREATER THAN HUMAN POWER BEGINS TO OPERATE IN THEIR LIVES. IT IS AN ENDLESS ADVENTURE. It has been my experience many many times! Remember that this is the system that achieved an 75% success rate for recovering alcoholics in the 1940's. A few years earlier they were considered lost causes and were often committed to institutions or left to die of the devastating disease!

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More step 11 work

Step 11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with this Power, praying only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out.

Connecting with our understanding of God-let's do some more of it. Referring to the Back To Basics program http://www.aabacktobasics.com/ we find direction the original 12 steppers (members of AA) used to live out this step 11 day by day.

1-Ask for God's direction for our thinking today: "Lord please direct my thinking today so that it is honest, pure, unselfish and loving. Please divorce my thinking from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives!"

It stands to reason then, that as part of a quiet time with our God, thoughts that now come to us should be from God. WE WRITE OUT ALL THOUGHTS WE RECEIVE AND THEN WE TEST THEM ONE BY ONE as usual and if they are dishonest, selfish, resentful or fearful, we know that our will has gotten into the picture and these thoughts are not from God. Discussion with trusted, praying, persons is probably in order, especially if any decisions need be made regarding content of the prayers. I personally use the scriptural teaching "if in doubt-don't" and back off the issue for the moment!

2-Speaking to our God many times throughout the day, we think the thought, or utter the words "Thy will be done". This recognition of God's Power often creates a humble mood in me and I am comfortable to wait as required and focus once again on the eternal moment (NOW) remembering that in and of itself, the moment is always endurable. It will always be NOW, THEREFORE I CAN MAKE IT!

You may notice-the power in Sharing with like-minded people-is a huge key throughout the 12 step philosophy. It is really the focal message of Sharing The Burden and the basis for the idea that all can benefit and certainly qualify to improve her/his lifestyle by working the 12 steps toward Spiritual freedom.

Secrets-kept or emotion-unexpressed, actually any form of unshared-problem; these all have tremendous power to damage us Spiritually, emotionally, and even physically. Note the tremendous loss of power that any of these (addictions included) experienced as we SHARED them. We took the step to admit to someone our sense of powerlessness over something and instantly it lost so much power over us. SO KEEP YOUR BURDEN TO YOURSELF AND WATCH IT GROW IN POWER OR SHARE IT AND WATCH IT WEAKEN INSTANTLY!

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Let's do it! REAL STEP 11 WORK!

..Sought (hungered), we cry out to You, and we listen, Spiritually free in the moment and from the depths a speck and then a thought is formed, an answer to some prayer. Is this from You Lord?

Test the thought FOR ITS ORIGIN, like the original 12 steppers did:

Is the thought PURE (no resentments involved)?

Is the thought honest (based on truth+trust)?

Is the thought unselfish (motive is not to make me feel better)?

Is the thought loving (no fear involved)?

If we answered YES to these four questions our answer is within God's will. If the opposite is true for any one of them, my will has come into play; I will call another stepper on the same faith path as me-someone who uses two-way prayer regularly in his/her life and I will ask this person for specific prayer support and possibly discussion time. Perhaps I will set a time and pray together with this person for clear guidance from God and we will take paper and pencil and write our way to a Spiritual solution. BELIEVE ME THIS WORKS!!

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Detach to Life...Let Go and Let God..

Sought through prayer and meditation: what is this to us?

Simply a relationship builder I believe, prayer being the Spiritual talk used to get used to being in communication with God and meditation being Spiritual relaxation.

PRAYER: "Here I am Lord, please help me to do this step 11 and gain a real sense of Your presence in my life!"

MEDITATION (Scott's version): The effortless task of letting go and letting God, an art of being, NOT DOING anything. Effortlessness similar to the accepting of powerlessness in our first step is something so simple yet so difficult to fit into a world that talks only LIFESTYLE, DO, COLLECT, LOOK LIKE, CLING TO, CONTROL, WIN, POWER, WEALTH, HOW-TO, EDUCATE, INDOCTRINATE, ACT etc etc etc. Where does let go come in?

Well it all comes back to being in the moment; so how to get there when we are taught to do do do until we drop? BUSYISM is the real enemy, that never ending "getting-through-to-the-next-thing-sickness" that has us clinging to the two things we have absolutely no say about-yesterday (is gone) and tomorrow (unknown).

To de-program we must de-tach firstly by recognizing the fruitlessness of our behaviour. There is tremendous power in the simple seeing of this (changed my efforts dramatically anyway). So, a little rest from the madness, some spiritual emotional relief OK?

This is what I do. Non-judgementally I simply sit comfortably (preferably as not to fall asleep too easily) and breath easy,eyes closed with an easy attention to where I am bodily at the moment. Can I feel my feet against my socks , the hair on my neck, my jeans as they fold behind my knees, the shirt collar touching my neck, can I experience my fingers one one by one by just thinking about them. These easy-effort-directors bring me to the NOW. From here, I exist only, drawing myself back to the simple bodily recognition type exercises mentioned above, whenever I drift off into a thought and find myself dwelling. I do this type of meditation for about 20 min-30 min per day. Remember if you try this and find that the thoughts just keep coming, they are not destroying the efforts of your meditation! You are not trying to get to some wonderful place in your head, although at times the bliss happens EFFORTLESSLY. The movement-through, of all the thoughts is really positive, congestion is eliminated and realize it or not, we are better off for the time taken just to allow these thoughts to do their thing in us without us doing anything with them. There is no bad meditation in that sense! We are actually being present with, where we are, without effort-almost a miracle today.

So the NON-ACTION way to relaxing emotionally/spiritually requires some directing because we are programmed to never stop thinking. Learning to leave everything alone (true detachment) and BE a part of life's symphony is a task today. Detaching from people, places and things is an art that allows one to have, in the truest, most complete way, the very people, places and things we cling to. We cannot love what we cling to, we can only allow them to CONTROL us as we try to control them.

So freedom to love rests in "letting go" on every level. As the "attached-lifestyle" loses its grip and we pear out from our bondage (flaws, defects of character, attachments), there is room for God to come in and the meditation pays spiritual dividends.

The relief of seeing, becoming aware and letting go is wonderfully exhilarating. The unburdening process as God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves, is overwhelming to me and words don't work to describe the sense of it!

KEY-meditation happens as we let go

MEDITATION is effortless and needs only reminder-tools to redirect us as we stray

FREEDOM is, as we let go

LOVE is, as we let go

The whole subject reminds of what I have heard so many times at open AA Meetings (open to the public) as recovering alcoholics express how they can only keep the benefits of the program as they give them away. In other words, as we reach out in our woundedness to the hurting, we are rewarded with the very love and healing that we offer to the new member. We get to keep what scripture calls agape love-that which wants nothing in return, non-clinging unconditional love.

We learn in programs dealing with co-dependant issues, to detach with love from the person we would control (the person whose behaviour introduced us to recovery). a subject for future..

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step 11

"WILL YOU CONTINUE TO TAKE PERSONAL INVENTORY AND TO SET RIGHT ANY NEW MISTAKES AS YOU GO ALONG?"

If you answered yes to this question you have completed step 10 and are now ready for step 11 per http://www.aabacktobasics.com/

Step 11- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with this Power, praying only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out.

Serenity program comments about step 11.."we will probably reach a level, though, at which we hunger for an even deeper contact and communication with God" This is what I think the key is, because, in my own life it was only when I really hungered for knowledge of the mysticism and depth of God and the whole Spiritual dimension, that I seemed to experience God in many parts of my life, especially in areas concerning nature, prayer, worship and my efforts to STAY IN THE MOMENT.

-So has taking 10 steps built in you the hunger to know your God with such intensity that all else will surely pale and seem as "very small"?

-Can your focus be this God-relationship most of the time rather than yourself, your pleasures, your feelings, relationships, power, property and prestige?

-Who can honestly make this decision NOW?

-Then ask God like this: "God will You make the difference and give me the strength of character to truly put You before all things in my life?"

-Do you want this to be true?

These questions/thoughts always bring me face to face with the truth of me and my nature and ever remind me of the utmost importance of my walk with God using the 12 steps! I know I must not slack off if this work in progress (me), is to be available and valuable in any way to God and His creatures!

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