Entirely Ready: Standing at the Starting Line of Change
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Entirely Ready: Standing at the Starting Line of Change
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When runners prepare their stance for the start of the race with feet planted, fingers on the track, and heart pounding, they’re getting entirely ready to go all in. In the same way, Step 6 is the action of becoming ready and willing to open yourself up to self-reflection and release from character defects. You know those things you do and say that stand in the way of your relationships and growth, and that you later regretfully wish you didn’t do or say? Those are character defects. And mine stick to me like gum on a shoe.
Step 6 teaches me to be moldable, like clay, instead of hardened by fear, ego, or habit. I became willing to let go of the parts of me that no longer serve me, even the ones I’ve used to survive and protect myself from being hurt. These instincts, when distorted, separate me from others. So, I had to become willing to examine them with honesty and cooperate with my higher power to let them go. I consider my higher power to be everything outside of myself including my concept of God. That means I need to cooperate with the others around me, not figure it all out in my own echo chamber.
It took me a couple years to understand Step 6. I can’t release my defects of character that I’m still justifying or hiding. If my obsession with alcohol was lifted, why not ego and selfishness too. The 12 steps are all about remaining open to change. I heard in early sobriety that the only thing I had to change was everything. So, every day I show up to the starting line with willingness again and again.
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