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CONTROL

Many of us have been trying to keep the whole world in orbit with sheer and forceful application of mental energy. What happens if we let go?? If we stop trying to keep the world orbiting and just let it whirl? It'll keep right on whirling. It'll stay right on track with no help from us. And we'll be free and relaxed enough to enjoy our place on it.

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Control is an illusion, especially the kind of control we've been trying to exert. In fact, controlling gives other people, events, and diseases, such as alcoholism, control over us. Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

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I have given this control to many things and people in my life. I have never gotten the results I wanted from controlling or trying to control people. What I received for my efforts is an unmanageable life, whether that unmanageability was inside me or in external events.

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In Recovery, we make a trade-off. We trade a life that we have tried to control, and we receive in return something better-- a life that is manageable. Today, I will exchange a controlled life for one that is manageable.

Nancy Marie Willner MHS,CRADC,NCADC

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