Weekly Meeting - Step 11 - Nov 1-7th - Cyber Recovery Social Network Forums

*janbear* · 11-01-2009, 10:29 PM

Step 11 says, "We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and the power to carry that out."

What does practicing step 11 mean to you?

Brendan · 11-05-2009, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by janbear

Step 11 says, "We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and the power to carry that out."

What does practicing step 11 mean to you?

To me the prayer and mediation is more for reminding the ego that I am not in control. It keeps me in the moment

Paully · 11-06-2009, 09:34 AM

Start out my day with prayers and some bible reading.
Throughout the day i pray a lot about all kinds of things.
Sometimes i just say thy will be done over and over when something is bothering me.
Every night i take my greyhound Diego for a walk and as we are walking in the peace and quiet say the rosery prayers. This really quiets my mind for a really restful sleep.
When i do this everything is great.
Don't think i have missed a day in over 4 years.

Chewi · 11-07-2009, 01:28 PM

It means I have to get through all the other steps (which is step 10) to clear the way for me to do step 11 which is praying and meditating on God's will. I do this in the morning and evening and throughout the day. If there is something I am not letting go of, I cannot pray effectively/hear God.

It is a process and I don't always get it right. But this is what I strive for. I pray for the needs of others because I look at this as another part of service and taking my mind off myself. I pray starting with praise and gratitude, then asking for forgiveness and removal of faults and then asking for help for others (based on the Lord's prayer model).

Starting with a devotional or verse gives me a principal or a thought to meditate on. Sometimes I have to be careful to chose just one in a day, because I can try to load my mind up with too much at once! -- Have to ask God for guidance on what He wants me to focus on today!

Thanks for a great topic!

sioux · 11-11-2009, 08:21 PM

It suggests to me that if I create a ritual of taking time out of each day to talk to my Creator, ask for guidance, contemplate some message, idea or concept, that my thoughts will be G-d centered as I move throughout the day.

Step 11 to me is about discipline, creating new habits that lead me to a more spiritual way of life instead of a Sioux based life.

*yukonm* · 11-11-2009, 10:56 PM

The most important thing I do in the morning is pray, read and meditate. I get up early so I am not rushed. I take my time and really practice centering myself spiritually. Makes all the difference in how I face my day. Throughout the day if I find myself off balance I take a moment and focus, get back on track. I also pray, read and meditate before I go to sleep.

Jay Bee · 11-17-2009, 12:11 AM

The 11th step for me, has brought me even closer to the GOD of my understanding, YES it has. The previous steps i work leading up to step 11 has giving me something i thought i never had, and that is the belief that their is a power greater then Jay Bee! As my belief grows i grow, so the 11 step has giving me, when i pratice it to the best of my abillty, made the whisper in my head just alittle louder that i can hear it. I can remember when i could'nt make the right, or good decision in early recovery, because i was so fearful of the out come, i ran to my sponsor,and other's for help. Now the 11th step help's me with my decision making,because now i can sit still with with my GOD and talk to him in prayer asking he for some guidance for his will to be done, not mines.

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Basic Text, P.45: Our egos are so self-centerered that we won't accept GOD's will for us without another struggle and surrender. If we pray for GOD to remove any distracting influences, the quality of our prayers usually improves and we feel the difference. Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills.

With practice i can go to that inner place of peace that brings me into contact with the GOD within me. So in daily living life on life terms, my disease can tell me to do, or im not good enough, or i told you so. when this happens , this is one of the ways i practice my 11th step to apply it to my life. I am still in the process about GODS WILL, but i know this much, Part of his will is to help others, given freely and gratefully that which has been giving freely and gratefully given to ME. I've came along way from trying to fit-in , and now that i have found NA and GOD i need not try anymore, If i pratice on doing the next right thing, my GOD will make it happen, do everyone know what im talking about? If you dont, i give you alittle hint!( It's an inside job! )

Rocket2d4 · 11-18-2009, 02:25 AM

It means for me to sit down and STFU...lmao (be still)

For the people that don't pray meditation will help bring ya peace...NA step 11 basic text.
To be restored to sanity is to have peace of mind...AA 12 & 12 step 2....

A relationship with GOD or my HP...
A relationship takes work and communications...
A relationship is a to way street...

When I pray GOD better be listen. When I meditate GOD better be talking.lol
Other than that we're both just wasting each other time and energy....

GOD and I are having a heart to heart conversation.
GOD and I wants the samething...God wants to love me and to be loved back.
I want to love and to be loved back.

Dear God...I love ya :)

mmmm... GOD's love is FREE and CONSTANT. ALWAYS FOREVER AND EVER.
It means I don't have to do anything to earn god's love. This includes praying and meditations.

It means I love my duaghter very very much no matter what. She has never had
to earn my love nor did I ever had to earn her love. She loves me very much.
My daughter dosn't pray or mediate...I still love her just the same.
My daughter make mistakes...I still love her just the same.

It helps that I've practiced to sit down, STFU and listen...really listen.
My daughter and the people in my life I love very much needed me to sit down and listen ...really listen to them.
To hear them and understand them without my preconceptions, judgments or Whatever the F...
If I love someone ...I will understand them.
In order for me to understand the people I love...I'll have to listen to them. It's not that complicated.

Practice building a relationship with my HP..then transfer that to the people I love and build these relationship...
If i get better at this...then I can have build healthy relationships with more people...

rebosman_99 · Yesterday, 09:09 AM

Give a little whistle. That was Pinocchio's prayer for beckoning Jiminy Cricket. ( his
conscience/ HP) Walt Disney was teaching my 5 year old how simple it is to use
his God-conscienceness. In turn my son taught me. Out of the mouth's of babes.
When I first came back to A.A. I did not realize I came in on the wings of my HP.
I didn't know He heard me or even cared. I figured I just gained enough self-will
and power in myself to not drink and go to a meeting.
Wasn't until I stayed awhile sober and heard the many messages from others that
I realized that God heard my many fox-hole prayers and cries for help. And I was crying
out daily. Every morning that I woke I cried that I would not get drunk today. pleaded
that I would be ok. Just to find my self drunk again by noon. I was a walking dead man.
That morning that I woke and first thing I did was to pour out that warm half empty
can of beer on my night stand out and find a meeting is the day my Hp had finally decided it was time. He lifted the obsession. There is noway in hell I would have made my first meeting if that obsession was still there.
A.A. taught me that I did my first 2 steps before walking through the doors and the 3rd step was done the day I did walk in. God did for me what I could not do for myself.
The steps taught me humility to see this and to give credit where credit is due. I can't, He can, I think I will let Him.
Once this realization came to view I knew I had to look at things with a set of new glasses on. The thing that I had to see (and not see) was that I needed to learn how to trust, I mean really trust, my Higher Power. That actually came easy once I took a look at the miracle He performed in me. I didnt drink July 10th 2008 and havent since. That is a miracle.
Step 11 is for me remembering what happened and continuing to ask for His care and guidance in life. It is learning to be dependent of my inner Jiminy Cricket. It is practicing to use the wisdom that was given to me at birth.

11-01-2009, 10:29 PM	#1
janbear willing servant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 14,184	Weekly Meeting - Step 11 - Nov 1-7th Step 11 says, "We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and the power to carry that out." What does practicing step 11 mean to you? __________________ And this above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -Shakespeare For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

11-11-2009, 08:21 PM	#5
sioux Devoted Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 367	It suggests to me that if I create a ritual of taking time out of each day to talk to my Creator, ask for guidance, contemplate some message, idea or concept, that my thoughts will be G-d centered as I move throughout the day. Step 11 to me is about discipline, creating new habits that lead me to a more spiritual way of life instead of a Sioux based life. __________________ "We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth. That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done." P 130, Alcoholics Anonymous

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11-06-2009, 09:34 AM	#3
Paully Newcomer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: MN Posts: 6	Start out my day with prayers and some bible reading. Throughout the day i pray a lot about all kinds of things. Sometimes i just say thy will be done over and over when something is bothering me. Every night i take my greyhound Diego for a walk and as we are walking in the peace and quiet say the rosery prayers. This really quiets my mind for a really restful sleep. When i do this everything is great. Don't think i have missed a day in over 4 years.

11-07-2009, 01:28 PM	#4
Chewi Devoted Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Pittsburgh area Posts: 407	It means I have to get through all the other steps (which is step 10) to clear the way for me to do step 11 which is praying and meditating on God's will. I do this in the morning and evening and throughout the day. If there is something I am not letting go of, I cannot pray effectively/hear God. It is a process and I don't always get it right. But this is what I strive for. I pray for the needs of others because I look at this as another part of service and taking my mind off myself. I pray starting with praise and gratitude, then asking for forgiveness and removal of faults and then asking for help for others (based on the Lord's prayer model). Starting with a devotional or verse gives me a principal or a thought to meditate on. Sometimes I have to be careful to chose just one in a day, because I can try to load my mind up with too much at once! -- Have to ask God for guidance on what He wants me to focus on today! Thanks for a great topic!

11-11-2009, 10:56 PM	#6
yukonm Community Greeter Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,116	The most important thing I do in the morning is pray, read and meditate. I get up early so I am not rushed. I take my time and really practice centering myself spiritually. Makes all the difference in how I face my day. Throughout the day if I find myself off balance I take a moment and focus, get back on track. I also pray, read and meditate before I go to sleep.

11-18-2009, 02:25 AM	#8
Rocket2d4 Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 67	It means for me to sit down and STFU...lmao (be still) For the people that don't pray meditation will help bring ya peace...NA step 11 basic text. To be restored to sanity is to have peace of mind...AA 12 & 12 step 2.... A relationship with GOD or my HP... A relationship takes work and communications... A relationship is a to way street... When I pray GOD better be listen. When I meditate GOD better be talking.lol Other than that we're both just wasting each other time and energy.... GOD and I are having a heart to heart conversation. GOD and I wants the samething...God wants to love me and to be loved back. I want to love and to be loved back. Dear God...I love ya :) mmmm... GOD's love is FREE and CONSTANT. ALWAYS FOREVER AND EVER. It means I don't have to do anything to earn god's love. This includes praying and meditations. It means I love my duaghter very very much no matter what. She has never had to earn my love nor did I ever had to earn her love. She loves me very much. My daughter dosn't pray or mediate...I still love her just the same. My daughter make mistakes...I still love her just the same. It helps that I've practiced to sit down, STFU and listen...really listen. My daughter and the people in my life I love very much needed me to sit down and listen ...really listen to them. To hear them and understand them without my preconceptions, judgments or Whatever the F... If I love someone ...I will understand them. In order for me to understand the people I love...I'll have to listen to them. It's not that complicated. Practice building a relationship with my HP..then transfer that to the people I love and build these relationship... If i get better at this...then I can have build healthy relationships with more people...

Yesterday, 09:09 AM	#9
rebosman_99 addiction free Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: oneonta n.y. Posts: 20	Give a little whistle. That was Pinocchio's prayer for beckoning Jiminy Cricket. ( his conscience/ HP) Walt Disney was teaching my 5 year old how simple it is to use his God-conscienceness. In turn my son taught me. Out of the mouth's of babes. When I first came back to A.A. I did not realize I came in on the wings of my HP. I didn't know He heard me or even cared. I figured I just gained enough self-will and power in myself to not drink and go to a meeting. Wasn't until I stayed awhile sober and heard the many messages from others that I realized that God heard my many fox-hole prayers and cries for help. And I was crying out daily. Every morning that I woke I cried that I would not get drunk today. pleaded that I would be ok. Just to find my self drunk again by noon. I was a walking dead man. That morning that I woke and first thing I did was to pour out that warm half empty can of beer on my night stand out and find a meeting is the day my Hp had finally decided it was time. He lifted the obsession. There is noway in hell I would have made my first meeting if that obsession was still there. A.A. taught me that I did my first 2 steps before walking through the doors and the 3rd step was done the day I did walk in. God did for me what I could not do for myself. The steps taught me humility to see this and to give credit where credit is due. I can't, He can, I think I will let Him. Once this realization came to view I knew I had to look at things with a set of new glasses on. The thing that I had to see (and not see) was that I needed to learn how to trust, I mean really trust, my Higher Power. That actually came easy once I took a look at the miracle He performed in me. I didnt drink July 10th 2008 and havent since. That is a miracle. Step 11 is for me remembering what happened and continuing to ask for His care and guidance in life. It is learning to be dependent of my inner Jiminy Cricket. It is practicing to use the wisdom that was given to me at birth.