HARMONY:

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A pianist often needs to practice each hand's work separately to learn
the feel, to learn the sound. One hand picks out a part until there is a
rhythm and ease in playing what is difficult. Then, the musician
practices with the other hand, picking through the notes, one by one,
until that hand learns its tasks. When each hand has learned its part
– the sound, the feel, the rhythm, the tones – then both hands can
play together.

During the time of practice, the music may not sound like much. It
may sound disconnected, not particularly beautiful. But when both
hands are ready to play together, music is created.

When we begin recovery, it may feel like we spend months, even
years, practicing individual, seemingly disconnected behaviors in the
separate parts of our life.

We take our new skills into our work, our career, and begin to apply
them slowly, making our work relationships healthier for us. We take
our skills into our relationships, sometimes one relationship at a
time. We struggle through our new behaviors in our love
relationships.

We work on our relationship with our Higher Power – our spirituality.
We work at loving ourselves. We work at believing we deserve the
best. We work on our finances. On our recreation. Sometimes on our
appearance. Sometimes on our home.

We work on feelings. On beliefs. On behaviors. Letting go of the old,
acquiring the new. We go from one extreme to the other, and
sometimes back through the course again. We make a little progress,
go backward, and then go forward again.

It may all seem disconnected. It may not sound like a harmonious,
beautiful piece of music. Then one day, something happens. We
become ready to play with both hands, to put the music together.

What we have been working toward, note by note, becomes a song.
That song is a whole life, a complete life, a life in harmony.

The music will come together in our life if we keep practicing the
parts.

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