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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