This is the tenth in a series this year we’re covering in my weekly Y12SR session (Tuesdays 7 pm ET). Each month, I explore one of the 12 Steps through my own experience as a Yoga practitioner. What I’ve noticed over the years is that even if we may not identify as a person in recovery from addiction (of any kind: substance, process, behavior) it is a useful framework for looking at any behavior from which we seek freedom.
“Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.”
grant me
awareness
consciousness of my biases
mindfulness of the limitations of perspective
grant me
willingness
to open the door and look inside
to see what’s really there
grant me
humility
knowledge there is more to learn, always
skillfulness to reflect, accept, and respond
grant me
grace
space to exist, clumsily
to no longer walk on a tightrope of perfectionism
to no longer fear every misstep a catastrophe
grant me
courage to admit fault
time to sit in the bog of being wrong
and energy to do better, next time
grant me
a next time
