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The spiritual journey in recovery is an evolution of learning about yourself A spiritual journey is all about learning more about yourself. A popular analogy is “peeling away more layers of an onion” when you are learning about yourself in sobriety. If you want to get through early sobriety then you should listen to other people and take their advice. This helps you to build a foundation. This is critical for early recovery. Keep in mind that most people who are in early recovery end up relapsing. You want to avoid this outcome so you need to be extremely careful about your first year or two of recovery. The best approach in my opinion is to simply kill your ego. Get out of your own way and listen to other people’s advice. This is contrary to what I have said already about “finding your own path.” I realise that it is a bit contradictory. But if you pay attention to the timing of this advice then there is no contradiction. In early recovery you must take advice and listen to others. This builds a foundation. Later, in long term sobriety, you must learn to think for yourself and discover your own path. But you do this based on the foundation of action that you have already established. I took a suggestion once to meditate. Many people made this suggestion to me. And it is essentially one of the 12 steps of AA. So I tried it. I studied meditation for a while and I practiced every day for several months. I experimented. I tested it. I gave it a fair trial (most fair trials are 30 day experiments in my opinion). You must take advice from others and you must also carve out your own path. It sounds like a contradiction but you can do both. You can take advice, test out new ideas, and then keep the ones that work out well for you. They even say this in AA meetings all the time: “Take what you need and leave the rest.” But how many people really do this? And how many people push themselves to take suggestions and experiment with new ideas so that they can discover new things about themselves? This is what recovery is really made of–personal growth, taking suggestions, and experimenting. In order to learn more about yourself in recovery you must be open minded and do experiments I had to find out what I didn’t like in recovery before I could settle on the path that I liked.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:57:05 +0000

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