Читать книгу Conscious Contact - Ph.D. Ph.D. Anonymous - Страница 87

The only place you can find success before work is in the dictionary. ∼May V. Smith

“Bring the body and the mind will follow” is something we tell the newcomer often. What we mean by it is that if they keep coming back and stay chemical-free, soon enough their mind will clear up. Eventually, the newcomer will begin to understand that in order to truly recover they must do the work, not sit around and expect the Program to magically work for them. There is a distinction between the Program working for someone and someone working the Program. The next time a newcomer says, “The Program isn’t working for me,” we can agree with them. We can tell them, “The only people who stay sober are the ones who work the Program, not the ones who wait for the Program to work for them.” We tell the newcomer to bring their body to more meetings until they get it!

I teach the newcomer that when they work the Program hard, life is easy. When they work

the Program easy, life is hard.

I had really tried to work the program, this time. And even though I had gone back out so many times before, I was now clean and sober.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 256