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How We Make Decisions

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Bill W. made the simple realization that resentments are the downfall of all alcoholics, and I daresay, all human beings.

Resentments are an immediate red flag that a person is sinking to "dry drunk" status, no matter if that person ever had a drink in their entire lives, or not.

The many different types of resentments are infinite, for instance, a knee jerk resentment, as when a car cuts in front of you, or a thought you just can't let go of goes rolling round and round in your head, replaying the tape of a past injustice.

Or when a patient tells me a wrong committed to her and I find myself rising up in indignation, as if that's going to save the day.

The spiritual practice here is to be conscious of any and all resentments, ask for help from the unseen forces, imploring them (angels and guides) to remove these blocks that resentments represent.

The twelve steps of AA, especially steps 4 through 9, are especially meant to liberate consciousness of any more tendencies toward rancor or malice. The negative emotions either gradually or dramatically fall away, if we are sincere and honest.

An AA old-timer one time told me that all fear, resentments, regrets and self-pity vanish the moment we get down on one knee, or two, if we are able, asking for divine help.

Perhaps this down- on -your- knees -position is necessary many times a day, or every single moment all day long!!

Yet the old-timer said that the negatives vanish quickly and we can then get on with the business of living and let living.

As Bill W. emphasized, resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From the pits of resentments stem all spiritual disease. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we are healed both mentally and physically.

We deal with resentments by setting them to paper. We list persons, institutions or principles with whom we are angry. We ask ourselves why we are angry. According to Bill W., self-esteem, the pocketbook, ambitions, personal relationships (including sex) are hurt or threatened.

The list may look something like this:

I'm resentful at: The Cause: Affects:

Mr. Jones He ripped me off My pocketbook

and so on.

We go back through our lives with complete honesty and a thorough self-appraisal.

How did I contribute to what I am blaming someone else for?

What part did I play?

All resentments boil down to fear.

So we then place all of our fears on paper, even if no resentment is affiliated with the fear.

And give these over to the higher power, however you choose to see this power.

This power is infinite as compared to our finite selves.

As we review our conduct over every year of our lives, we ask: How have I been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate?

And since I am evaluating the part I played in all of this, I ask: How was I at fault?

What could I have done differently?

Am I truly sorry for what I have done? Because herein lies the key.

If I am sorry, and allow my higher power to take me to higher realms of giving and living, then forgiveness is the likely outcome for all concerned.

If I refuse to be sorry, then my conduct will continue to harm the people in my life as well as myself.

The choice is in the giving, the living and let living.

One Day At A Time.

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Thanks to Bill Wilson for giving us the spiritual principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.

How We Make Decisions

You also have a choice to be responsible for your own life and live your life consciously. No one can help you unless you make a choice to ask for help and recognize that you are responsible for your own life and own happiness.

If you make a choice towards certain things, there are consequences to that choice. If you overindulge in something you may have to pay a steep price. Over indulgence in food, alcohol and drugs can cause many hardships, discomfort, with physical and emotional pain. That choice can cost you years of youth, friendships, important connection with family, the job that you put years into, your health and even loss of life. A choice towards an obsessive relationship can cost you everything too. You could lose your freedom, your happiness, your tenderness, you personal power, and again your life.

You have a choice of what words to say. To encourage, discourage, to fight or to make amends. All with the choice of your words. You have the choice of what to remember over and over again or to let it go and move ON! Again that choice could cost you years.

When an opportunity comes you have a choice to take it or to let it pass you by because of your fear, grief; or because of believing a false thought that you are not worthy. You ARE worthy, and you can make that choice to call yourself worthy. You can choose to speak the positive, or you a choose to complain.

You can choose to experience deep joy speak the positive, or you a choose to complain. You can choose to experience deep joy in everything, everyone, and every creature in your life, or you can choose to see and live the negative. You can choose to discount all of your strength or you can choose to say, I'm strong, healthy and making a difference right now.

You can choose to believe negative thoughts about yourself or you can choose to form a gorgeous picture of yourself. You can chose to work and pay off your debt or you can choose to be underemployed, and the consequences of this choice might be poverty.

If you are sick you can choose to see yourself healthy and healed; and get up, get dressed and get out of the house, or you can continue to be sick in your bed and continue on with a NO-LIFE choice.

You can choice to see and feel that everything in your life right now has been your responsibility and you can choose to have a different life. But everything takes time. It took time to get to the desperate state that you may now find yourself and it also takes time to correct the state. But it will correct if you keep at it consistently. When you can choose the food that you eat you can transform your body by those choices.

Make a choice to lead your life by the joy that you feel and you will have a blessed life.

You can choose to make your life something worth living and you can choose to make your own opportunities. Every choice that you make in this life, leads you further on the path that you are on. If that choice is one of destruction, then you are going to continue on down.

If the choice is one of transformation of a life that is no longer working, that choice is going to bring you out of the darkness of your life. But you must continue on with the correct choices for the ship to turn. One day you will wake up and be amazed with your life. Sometimes you can only choose one thing at a time, other times you have to make all these choices at one time. You can choose to let yourself be rushed, or you can choose to do it in a thoughtful manner asking for wisdom. Remember every choice has a consequence. What choice will you make today that could change your future? You decide and then choose.copyright 2006 Yoga Kat

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