First Step

First step:

the first step is about honesty, admitting that we are powerlessness over our present situation and giving cause to our surrender — it’s also often the most difficult step to take in a recovery program. We are long conditioned to believe in our own personal power and having complete control over all aspects of our lives. Admitting that we are powerless, even over an addiction, doesn’t seem to fit within the strictness of this framework. But the truth is that we have little power, less that we could possibly imagine, and surrender to a higher power is really the only viable option if we wish to live an awakened life.

and to be awake is to be free.

to be truly free is to realize that there is no higher power separate from ourselves and that our surrender is really and only to the flow of life. That’s it, the first step is admitting that we are powerless and have little real control over how our lives unfold. It’s scary. It’s also not what we believe, we’ve spent a lifetime navigating our lives in a particular direction, choosing a preferred path, and having a sense of control over our destiny. We believe we’re in control, powerful to a certain extent at least. But of course this is all just reaction and response, not true power, but simply a slow careen of life events that we react to. We’re powerless here, life’s in charge, and the great discovery is that we’re…