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My sponsor was telling me how the slogans are the gateway to the steps. Like practicing live and let live, saying it in your mind when you feel that need to get involved, is like practicing step 1. Do you use the slogans like this?
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steps are my "cliff notes" life 101.....use em all the time......easy does it......keep it simple.....live and let live.....keep focus on me....how important is it....i could go on and on about the good ole slogans
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Live and let live and do it with peace and goodwill to all!!!!
Progress not perfection is one of my favorites. It counterbalances my need to be "perfect." And by now, I'm sure everyone knows I'm certainly not that? I can't. God can. I'll let God. Another favorite. Whose business am I in - mine, God's or another persons? Another well used question. When I'm aware that my ego is getting all puffed up like a blowfish, Easy Does It helps, too.
Absolutely LC I love the slogans and in the beginning since they were so easy for me to remember I used them exclusively for the entire first year in program not only as a gateway to the steps but also to the principles of the alanon program
Let go and Let God for me was the first 3 Steps.
Live and Let live reminded me of the 10th Step
Serenity prayer was the 11th Step
Listen and learn taught me to not react and to process information
How important is it: taught em to let go of judgement and criticism
These little tidbits of philosophy are a genuine pat of whom I am today
I love slogans they help me to remember I can stop and do something different then my old normal that wasn't working for me. The slogans above and a huge list I have saved on my computer have been useful tools for me and did help guide me towards the steps. Sending you love and support!
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" Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
"Serenity is when your body and mind are in the same place."
I use them when I catch myself in a bad place...when my thinking is really unhealthy and I know I am in a bad place...especially when i have started to react and I am starting to feel ashamed and out of control..usually it's 'do the next right thing" as a reminder to do something sensible and useful no matter what instead of trying to "mind control the world". I try to focus on that next right thing and remind myself to 'let go and let HP"; we have a deal where I do the next right thing and HP takes care of the crazy stuff for me. All I have to do is fold the washing walk the dog study the lesson do the job drive the car or whatever and HP will take care of the crazy unmanagable stuff for me. I love that little tandem slogan thing we have going on; I do the next right thing, HP takes care of the crazy stuff in return. It's a good deal we have going on
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
