When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

Too bad this post wasn't responded to. Meditation is a big part of my own recovery and has been right from the beginning.

At first, I took my Bible (I would only use the New Testament, the Psalms and the Proverbs), and I would say a prayer, open the Bible and read where my eyes fell.

I also did this with the Big Book. When I came on line, I would say the Step 3, 7th, and the Serenity Prayer, plus a form of Step 11, because I couldn't remember it all. Prayer helps me to get out of the way, so my God can work through me instead of around me and over me. It has never ceased to amaze me how my God allowed me to match up pictures and text on so many occasions, things and words were just there.

I like the colour meditation they taught us in recovery. When you close my eyes, I see black, and then the colours start to come, red, orange, green, blue, etc. and asking for the white light. It is very healing.

http://www.meditationcenter.com/healing/color.html

I also put on music, preferably for me, music without words. I have found though that when I put on music to listen to, words come through that I need to hear. The problem with most of today's music, there are words that I don't desire to here.

Candle light and those little white lights that they generally have on only at Christmas helped me and remind me to take things out of the darkness and into the light so I can see them. A lot depends on my willingness to see and my willingness to deal with what I see.

A friend of mine suggested that I sit at a table with a blank piece of paper and a pen. Every time I got a thought, put it on paper, even if it is just a word. It generally shows a pattern and guidance as to where you need to go and what you need to do.

Prayer is asking for help, meditation is listening for help.