Here we go again, the Law of Attraction. What one puts into his Mirror of Life, one gets back exactly as when putting your image into your Mirror in your bathroom. Looking in a bathroom mirror shows this exactly as they are. If you have a wart on the end of your nose and a scowl on your face, you see a wart on your nose and a scowl on your face. If you smile at the mirror, you get a smile back. When you put a scowl into your mirror of life, you attract sour people. If you put love into your mirror of life, you attract kind, loving people. An old Scottish saying is “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” We also can’t create a beautiful new life out of the negative thoughts we bring with us from the past.
This is an example of how important it is to work the 12 Steps of the AA Program. In this case, it is Steps 4, 5, and 10. Do you think a garbage truck that sits out overnight from New Years Eve into the New Year will smell any better at the later time? The driver must dump it and move on with his route or his load will only ripen.
The same is true for us and our stinking thinking. We have our negative thoughts in the truck of our minds and must dump it and move on with our route. Hence, the Mirror of Life brings back the smell that we put into our lives. Abraham Hicks says: ”Every thought is a vibration, and the Law of Attraction is responding to every thought. Therefore all thought is going to increase. The only question is: Is this thought one you want to increase?” Our negative, judgmental reflection only serves to keep us uneasy, to say the least. Thus, leading us to getting drunk or otherwise live the worst.
“OK, so I have some negativity in my life but isn’t that just life?” NO, it is not “just life” and does not have to be for you or me either. This is where we bring the rest of the 12 Steps into our day to day living. This is not a program to work just when it feels comfortable. It is not a cafeteria or buffet for us to pick and choose just what we want and leave the rest. It was put together to give us all a much better WAY OF LIFE that we never even dreamed of before entering this Program. A Way of Life is not something that is done on a whim It is constant or it is not a Way of Life.
This is why I try to work my program to the best of my ability 24/7/365. Is it easy? No! Is it simple? Yes. How is it simple? Just follow the 12 suggested Steps to the best of my ability during every waking moment and don’t try to figure it out or analyze it. “Utilize don’t analyze” is more than a saying. It is also a way of life that makes me comfortable. Can you do it too? Of course you can. Does it take work? Sure it does, at first, but what do you have to lose to try it? I’ll tell you some of what you’ll lose. You’ll lose anger, shame, frustration, fear, guilt, and more.
If it is bad, you can lose it all just by working this simple program for very complicated folks. Some may say “But I tried it and really worked it and I still feel lousy!” Everyone does not get this program as quickly or deeply as others but there is still a way out of the misery. If you took longer to get the program, it can only be a slight stumbling block, and not anything to feel guilty about. There are many in the program that did not get the program the first time that they tried it. Many of them are now working better programs than others with decades of time in the program.
So, what do we do next? Let me begin to answer this question with the start of another question. What do you get out of a bathroom mirror when you look at it with a scowl on your face, an unshaven chin, a wart on your nose, and food in your front teeth? You get the exact same image back. A scowl, an unshaven chin, a wart on your nose, and food in your teeth. The same is true for your mirror of life. If you wake up in the morning with spiteful, revenge filled, angry thoughts and continue to feel this way, you get back from others you come across the very same. You will find people who are spiteful, revenge filled, angry in your life.
If you wake up and have these bad thoughts, immediately change your thinking into something more pleasant. Then, more pleasant people appear as you make your way through your day. If someone smiles at me, it is difficult for me not to smile back. We get back from life exactly what we put into it.
We may do something nice for someone and they not acknowledge it. If this happens, just move on because the Law of Vibration will bring it back from another and probably with even greater magnitude.
I have seen and heard some who have considerable dry time that are working a program that I would not wish on anyone. They brag about being sober but are really just dry! So, don’t be overly impressed by someone, just because of the number of years that they say they have been sober. Being sober is much more than just not taking a drink and memorizing the Big Book. Or the nice platitudes they say in the meetings. Find the ones that don’t tell you how to work your program.
Find the ones that SHOW that they are Happy, Joyous, and Free at all times. Problems may come up in their lives but they deal with them and then move on with their own programs, smiling most of the way. I know who I want to emulate, what about you?
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