Thursday, December 20, 2012

HARMONY:


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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