KEY 1: YOU ARE THE POWER
Step One: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Key One: “Through my conscious union with the Infinite Universal Presence, I am powerful, clear and free. Through the realization that God is within me, expressing as me, my life is in divine and perfect order.”
How It Works:
In Step One, you are indeed powerless. You have tried to effort your way into wholeness over and over again, just to fail over and over again. It is at this point that you are demonstrating a misguided belief in a God outside yourself—a God that isn’t available or friendly, and deems you to be unworthy. But you keep begging and hoping that one day there will be mercy and a reprieve from the torment of addiction—a reprieve from the repeated pattern of pain and suffering.
Believe it or not, this is a wonderful step. It is an important and necessary starting point on your spiritual journey. But you were never meant to pull over and park there. Step one was designed to create a state of surrender such that you would stop trying to save and change your life from a limited sense of power. It opens a way for you to connect to the real power—the one power—Spirit.
The Work
Set your intention by saying quietly to yourself or out loud:
“I surrender. I put aside everything I think I know about God, myself, and my relationship to God. My heart is open to having a realization of who I am as an expression of Spirit. I am ready and available for a new experience.”
Contemplate
The “omni-” nature of God.
Omni means “all” in Latin.
The “all” of God includes all-power (omnipotence), all-presence (omnipresence) and all-knowingness (omniscience).
You know there are many names for God: Spirit, Universal Presence, Tao, Life, Holy Mother, Father, I Am, Yaweh, Jehovah, or just “Hey, You.” Sometimes God is referred to as Him, Her or even It. The point is, you can call God whatever you want. The spiritual healing and recovery of your wholeness isn’t about what you call God. It’s about having an expanded understanding of Its divine nature and a realization of your oneness with It.
Omnipotent: It is all-powerful.
God's qualities are expansive and creative in nature: love, peace, joy, harmony, health, affluence, excellence, synergy, and all the adjectives describing good that you can think of. After all, God is an infinite power.
God isn't even capable of knowing fear, disharmony, lack, limitation, dishonesty, cruelty or sickness, because an omniscient, infinite power and presence cannot contradict its own nature—even in thought. God doesn’t even know death, because Its divine nature is eternal life.
Omniscient: It is all-knowing.
Spirit is transcendent knowledge and divine intelligence, meaning God knows all there ever was or is to know. How awesome is that? This presence and power knows all things. There is nothing It does not know. What God knew a billion years ago, It knows today, and what is ever going to be known—is also known now.
When you can lean into that which knows all, divine ideas and transcendent knowledge can be revealed and expressed through you—as you.
Omnipresent: It is everywhere present.
Like a hologram that retains its completeness even when divided into parts, the wholeness of divine power is encoded in Its entirety into all things.
And “all things” includes each one of us.
Journal
Omnipotent means “all powerful.” It is a term I use for the Universal power that is in all things—including us. There is a power behind: life, nature, the sun, the movements of the planets and everything else in our known universe. What does “omnipotent” mean to you?
Can you see how there could be a singular power behind all of the different manifestations of energy that we can see, and maybe even those which we can’t see?
How would you describe the all-power, the only power, the one power in your own life? What does it feel like, look like and sound like?
What if there’s no Satan or evil power, because there’s only one power? How would your life be different if you knew, felt, believed that there was only one power operating in your life, and that power was only good?
How do you feel about being “at one” with God? What does that bring up for you?
Affirmations
Key One: “Through my conscious union with the Infinite Universal Presence, I am powerful, clear and free. Through the realization that God is within me, expressing as me, my life is in divine and perfect order.”
“God is omnipotent—all-powerful. God is omniscient—all-knowing. Spirit is omnipresent— everywhere. God is the reality of all things, individualized as me—my true identity.”
“Just as the waves are another way the ocean occurs in nature, I am another way that God is occurring. All the power, goodness and love of God is right where I am. I feel safe and loved in this awareness.”
Action Steps
Say quietly or out loud to yourself: “I set aside everything I think I know about God, myself and everything that’s concerning me right now, and instead cultivate an open mind, open to new experiences.”
Set your intention to know the nature of reality. Allow what is real to be revealed to you—independent of your past beliefs and cultural prejudices. Be free to accept this new view of reality, no matter how foreign it may seem to you right now. Reassure yourself that the Universe is one of order, peace and love, and that you have a special place in it—a perfect place.
Reread, review and process the Contemplations and Journal in your notebook.