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Step Two
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

Having completed Step One, we're starting to feel a little more familiar with how the process of recovery works. But now that we're facing Step Tow, we've begun to have second thoughts about whether we're willing to proceed.

We're nervous about doing an in-depth analysis of our own mental health. And we're equally fearful and reluctant about relinquishing our own self-reliance to a power we may feel we don't have even a nodding acquaintance with.

This is where we have to experiment a little with faith in ourselves, and in the process. Because by the time we have successfully worked through Step Two, we'll likely have developed a deeper understanding of why self-will and self-determination---no matter how much we struggle to apply them---are simply not powerful enough to effect our recovery.

Also, by the end of Step Two it should be increasingly clear how our compulsion/addiction has compelled us to act in ways that are not indicative of a healthy mind.

Step By Step, daily meditations for living the twelve steps. by Muriel Zink.