True North

What is your True North? Your guidance in times of trial and difficulties? We all have spinning thoughts, difficult emotions and complex beliefs. So hammering out our True North can help us.

First, I think about my psyche in three ways, my head (thinking), my stomach or gut (emotional) and then my heart or soul (spiritual).

I try to quiet my head, and my emotions so that the spiritual or soul can speak to me. That is my True North. The book, Alcoholics Anonymous says:

“I was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within. Common sense would thus become uncommon sense. I was to sit quietly when in doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me. Never was I to pray for myself, except as my requests bore on my usefulness to others. Then only might I expect to receive. But that would be in great measure.”

Great to practice. Get quiet, wait for God. So I pray, ask God for direction and help others.

This way I find my True North.