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🗓️ 1 March 2024
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Step 4 in Alcoholics Anonymous is participation in a daily moral inventory. Interesting, that the strong desire to numb out goes way down when what you are doing matches what you believe is right. It's called being in cognitive dissonance, and it messes us up.
Making things right in your life MATTERS. This guided exercise will help you get there.
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0:00.0 | This evening inventory will provide an opportunity for daily inner house |
0:06.9 | cleaning. It will allow you a chance to identify those places and areas that are sapping and diffusing your energy. |
0:15.8 | The daily ritual of letting go of resentment, fear, dishonesty, and selfishness will expand your capacity to stay peaceful within and powerful |
0:29.3 | in your focus. |
0:31.6 | It helps to first take a moment to physically relax your body. |
0:35.0 | This skill alone, that ability to be in and maintain a relaxed physical state, |
0:42.8 | takes practice, but will be of tremendous value to you in your life. |
0:48.8 | Take several deep and full breaths, |
1:01.8 | and allow the muscles in your head and face to let go, to sink, to relax and unwind. |
1:05.2 | Notice your jaw releasing and the muscles in your forehead smoothing. Relax your throat and drop your shoulders. |
1:19.0 | Feel heavy inside as you notice your breathing slowing down even more and becoming deeper and more |
1:29.0 | full. Relax your stomach and your hips and then move down to becoming aware of your legs, |
1:42.0 | feeling them become very heavy and relaxed. |
1:49.0 | Move the relaxation now, even further to your knees, your calves, down to your feet, and then all the way to your toes. |
2:05.0 | While maintaining this relaxed state, |
2:09.0 | begin now by assessing where you might have felt resentful today. |
2:16.4 | Are there any resentments that you have been carrying, |
2:20.8 | any hurts or fences that you have continued to replay and |
2:26.0 | refeal and relive in your mind. What resentments are you feeling towards yourself? towards others, |
3:05.0 | towards a circumstance or situation. You cannot change things that may have happened in the past and yet the negative feelings linger and drain you. |
3:36.4 | What would it be like for you if you were to let go of this resentment now? |
3:42.0 | What would it look like to let go of this story that you've been |
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