STEP 4 INVENTORY AND FEAR

A lot of ones construction of a frame of reference and discounting can be fear based.  If its associated to survival strategies it is just that about “Surviving”  which had significance in the past to how one felt.  This is where personal inventory also looks at pessimism, cowardice, dependency, fear, hopelessness, negative thinking and self pity.  We are fear based animals but if we live with to much association to this we develop negative characteristics which hold us back.  In the Susan Jeffers book Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway.  There is a paragraph that says “If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life.  Yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear.  Then we must conclude that fear is not the problem  Here is where I see scriptwhich can be a major problem.  This is further reinforced by if it is out of awareness it levers us stuck by something which we dont really know about.  This often leave the message with people “This is just the way i am and that that”.  This is so not true and often can hinder people in their lifes journey which does make me sad.  Here i see addicts working the programme as having more emotional literacy  then other people because they look at the self.  This is even if they are not aware of the deeper injunctions.  They have taken personal inventory and know the negative characteristics that hold them back.  Whether these are attached to earlier deeper message is besides the point,  The programme itself can help people with their script processes by getting them to look at the self and take their own inventory which is powerful and productive.  Additionally, it looks at fear without trying to be in denial of this feeling which can impact us making decisions, moving on, believing that we can survive as individuals, stops us from self care, deprives us from handling life on lifes terms.

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