JFT July 1st - A Simple Program

[Gmoney]

July 1

A simple program

“The program is simply sharing, working the Twelve Steps, attending meetings, and practicing the principles of the program.”

Basic Text, p. 188

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Our complicated lives can be made a lot less complicated if we concentrate on a few simple things—sharing our experience, strength, and hope with others, regular meeting attendance, and practicing the principles of the program in our daily lives.

By sharing our experience, strength, and hope with other addicts, we provide a powerful example for newcomers to follow. The effort we put into helping others also helps keep self-centeredness, the core of our disease, at bay.

Many of us pick one group, a “home group,” whose meetings we attend faithfully. This regularity gives some routine to our lives, and lets others know where they can find us if they need us.

Practicing the Twelve Steps in our daily lives makes the difference between a balanced recovery and simply not using. The steps give us some much-needed guidance in managing our everyday affairs.

Yes, we are complex people. But the NA program simplifies our lives, enabling us to live a life free from active addiction. Our lives can be filled with serenity and hope when we live by the guidance of the simple principles of our program.

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Just for today: I will remember that, while I am a complex person, NA is the simplest way for me to make my life less complicated.



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[Gmoney]

Practicing the Twelve Steps in our daily lives makes the difference between a balanced recovery and simply not using.

There it is again! Another tip that there's a difference between just being clean and recovery. LOL!!

Yes, we are complex people. But the NA program simplifies our lives, enabling us to live a life free from active addiction.

A simple program for complicated people. I shared this recently, here at SR, and someone disagreed. Oh well...

[REZ]

It's a simple program for complicated people. Why we forget that so easily?

[Gmoney]

I don't know Rez. I think there are those of us who are so anti-slogan that they ignore the truth underlying many of those slogans. I came to understand a long time ago that people (in general) are multi-faceted, complex and diverse. I can be emotional, irrational, intellectual, logical, stupid and indifferent all in the same day. Add addiction to that mix and you've got one sick puppy!! LOL!!

[sct]

-wags my tail.-

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by REZ

It's a simple program for complicated people. Why we forget that so easily?

Because we are complicated people and we want to complicate the heck out of everything....or at least I do LOL