Grey Book Reflection
Continuing to take personal inventory means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves
Gray Book, p. 57 (Step Ten, Lines 14-15)
Our Tenth Step asks us to continue to take Personal Inventory. What that means is that we never stopped.
All of our Steps in Narcotics Anonymous are Inventory Steps. Starting from Step One, we looked at our using and the trouble it caused us. In Step Two we took Inventory of the Power Greater than ourselves we Believed in.
We Opened our minds and Accepted Guidance from that Power. In the Third Step we relied on the God of Our Own Understanding. In Step Four we became Willing to look at our past relationships with people, places, things and our Relationship with Reality.
We saw what we had, and we saw what we wanted and it wasn't what we had. With the help of our Sponsors and our Higher Power, we worked toward our Personality Change in Steps Five, Six, and Seven. Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous is a Daily Reprieve, SO Living the Steps is a Continuous Cycle. We continue monitoring our attitudes and behaviors, and correct what needs correction.
Recovery in Narcotics Anonymous is a constant removal and replacing old with the new. We get in the habit of looking at ourselves and Practicing these Spiritual Principles, until this habit becomes automatic. Our personalities are transformed, we become different people.
We will Continue Practicing the habit of looking at ourselves, until this habit becomes automatic.