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We are often surprised how the right answers come...
"In thinking about our day we may face indecision.  We may not be able to determine which course to take.  Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision.  We relax and take it easy.  We don't struggle.  We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while."
Why does this work?
I believe it works because when I really want to think, when I reckon it's really important that I "think this one through" is when I most need to avoid it. At these times I tend to think in sprials - up and down.
The simple act of asking something outside of myself to help me (corporeal or otherwise), allows me to slow down just that little bit. In the slowing down, more rational thoughts tend to flow.
Like any muscle or organ, sometimes I need to exercise my brain, and, more often than I choose of my own free will, I need to rest it.
I need the discipline of routine to help me relax it (God knows it will happily exercise me to death!)
On awakening...
"On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead.  We consider our plans for the day.  Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.  Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use.  Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives."
I'm not sure about you - but "on awakening" I tend to be racing about getting ready for the day ahead.  Sometimes I wonder if those that wrote the Big Book had 9 to 5 jobs.
However, once I'm on the bus to work I do often remember the third step prayer.  This has been, over the years, my most consistent form of concious contact with a power greater than myself.
 
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11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge for His will for us and the power to carry that out.

3rd Step Prayer     7th Step Prayer     11th Step Prayer

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi     Serenity Prayer

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