Living in the Solution: 5 Simple Daily Actions to Maintain Sobriety

5 Simple Daily Actions to Maintain Sobriety “Continue to improve our conscious contact with God….carry the message…and practice these principles in all our affairs.”

  1. Daily Inventory & make amends promptly  “the alcoholic has to continue to take inventory every day if he expects to get well and stay well.” (page 294 AA) “Make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone” (84)
  2. Pray “We ask God to direct our thinking” (86) “We ask God at once to remove our shortcomings” (84) “Saying to ourselves many times each day, ‘Thy will be done'” (88)
  3. Meditate  “In meditation we ask God what to do about each specific matter. The right answer will come if we want it.”(69)
  4. Make contact with another recovered alcoholic “Talk about our problem with someone immediately!” (84)
  5. Help another alcoholic   “For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials or low spots ahead.” (14)

It’s simply doing Steps 10, 11, 12

Reference:

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/healspirit/AA%205_simple_daily_actions_to_mainta.htm

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