Comments on: 12-step discussion: step 2 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/12-step-discussion-step-2/ making lives better, making better lives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: 12-step discussion: step 3 » change therapy - isabella mori http://www.moritherapy.org/article/12-step-discussion-step-2/comment-page-1/#comment-38142 12-step discussion: step 3 » change therapy - isabella mori Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:35:18 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/12-step-discussion-step-2/#comment-38142 [...] god as we understood god. same thing, really, as with the previous paragraph. a decision, an investigation that we may have never made. how DO we understand god? how do we WANT to understand god? who or what is our god? yes, who or what. let’s not get hung up on the “who” too much. god does not need to be a person-type entity. god can be an idea, a concept, god can be our values. it’s a “power greater than (fill in the blank)”. [...] [...] god as we understood god. same thing, really, as with the previous paragraph. a decision, an investigation that we may have never made. how DO we understand god? how do we WANT to understand god? who or what is our god? yes, who or what. let’s not get hung up on the “who” too much. god does not need to be a person-type entity. god can be an idea, a concept, god can be our values. it’s a “power greater than (fill in the blank)”. [...]

]]> By: Samsara http://www.moritherapy.org/article/12-step-discussion-step-2/comment-page-1/#comment-23958 Samsara Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:25:29 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/12-step-discussion-step-2/#comment-23958 Neat. A step study. :) Came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity. This insults my ego that there is any power greater than myself so how do I get my mind around it? Ah yes. T'was the <b>1st step</b> when I admitted I was powerleess over a thing; and not just that -but that due to my powerlessness my life had become unmanageable. If I've taken step 1, then my ego has failed to protect me from the backlash of the thing I am powerless over. I then shut up the ego with the further declaration, "I am powerless and hey look! My life is unmanageable too." At that point then I why I have never had a problem with getting to Step 2 once I have worked through Step 1. At that point, I HAVE to believe there is something greater that can restore me to sanity. I make no mistake - I am insane operating from an item that has gotten my life to the point of unmanageability. This is the good news. There is something higher than my self-destructive nature. It's my higher awareness nature - as you said - my intuitive voice; my still quiet voice. It whispers, "There is another way. Follow me." So I do. Step 2. Neat. A step study. :)

Came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.

This insults my ego that there is any power greater than myself so how do I get my mind around it?

Ah yes. T’was the 1st step when I admitted I was powerleess over a thing; and not just that -but that due to my powerlessness my life had become unmanageable.

If I’ve taken step 1, then my ego has failed to protect me from the backlash of the thing I am powerless over. I then shut up the ego with the further declaration, “I am powerless and hey look! My life is unmanageable too.”

At that point then I why I have never had a problem with getting to Step 2 once I have worked through Step 1.

At that point, I HAVE to believe there is something greater that can restore me to sanity. I make no mistake – I am insane operating from an item that has gotten my life to the point of unmanageability.

This is the good news. There is something higher than my self-destructive nature. It’s my higher awareness nature – as you said – my intuitive voice; my still quiet voice.

It whispers, “There is another way. Follow me.”

So I do.

Step 2.

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