HOLD BACK NOTHING The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey. . . .Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place. ~ TWELVE STEPS & TWELVE TRADITIONS (pg. 61-62) A tiny kernel of locked-in feelings began to unfold when I first attended AA meetings and self-knowledge then became a learning task for me. This new self-understanding brought about a change in my responses to lifes situations. I realized I had the right to make choices in my life, and the inner dictatorship of habits slowly lost its grip.I believe that if I seek God I can find a better way to live and I ask Him daily to assist me in living a sober life. I believe that if I seek God I can find a better way to live and I ask Him daily to assist me in living a sober life. From the book Daily Reflections. © Copyright 1990 by AA World Services, Inc.
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