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Norman Vincent Peale was right. Years ago in one of his articles in Guideposts, he talked about the 12 steps, including the comment that they would work for most any problem. I then read his book, “The Power of Positive Thinking” which has since become a classic. Putting these two models together has not only worked for all my problems, but has healed my medical conditions, too
Therefore, I began to ask God to remove any negative thoughts, words, or actions and replace them with His love and grace. (Step 7) I found that as I removed the old thinking, my life improved, especially emotionally. Then over time the rest of my life became more positive and attracted more positive people, activities, and experiences. I was becoming a love-based person which was changing my whole perception about life. I was not reacting as that victim of so many years, but responding from the love of our Father toward myself and others.
Now turning my will and life over to the care of God became even more meaningful (Step Three). It would only be an improvement. I had been in hell. That God cared for me and I was still alive was an awakening. I had never heard that I should turn my life over to the will and care of God before. Again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this was a positive replacement for the messages I had received at home growing up.
The feedback and help for me to become rational about understanding my crises,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], turmoil, and chaos,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was necessary (Step Five). This sorting out of the truth from the false lead to not only changing my perspective on my marriage, but all my other difficult relationships, finances, illnesses, addictions, and diseases. Sharing with a person, who understood became important. I learned to trust someone, including God.
The next step in the process was scary. I did not want to look at those past traumas locked inside my inner vault (Step Four). I certainly did not want you to know, because you would not like me. But as I took many inventories of myself, I began to see how my negative thinking could be changed into a positive. I was eager to finally find out as much about my fear-based life as I could, allowing me to transform my fears with positive thinking and God’s love.
My life was unmanageable when I first read his Guideposts’ article. (Step One) I was raised in a domestically violent childhood, with an alcoholic father and a paranoid-schizophrenic mother. This produced many kinds of emotional and physical abuse. I continued to survive in my mother’s second marriage to an alcoholic and sex addicted man. Leaving home for college was a blessing, I thought. Marrying another student, studying to become a teacher like me, I believed would solve my problems. I did not understand that I attracted a person from the same kind of background in which I was raised. My thirty year marriage of battering and rape took place during all the years I taught school.
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After my husband attempted to kill me several times, I called to God for help during the last incident. I prayed, “God, please help me I really don’t want to die.” With in a few minutes things had changed, and I was out of immediate danger. As I better learned about the 12 steps I found the second step (Step Two) was replacing the negative with the positive, as I continued asking God for help. I knew from Dr. Peal’s book about positive thinking that it would work. This conscious choice to believe that God could restore my insane life was new to me, even though I had attended church since the age of five. This began a twenty- three year search to find and resolve those inner negative messages that had attracted those unmanageable occurrences. Messages such as: I was no better than my mother and deserved to be beat.
I finally saw that growing into adulthood meant to release my childish negative ways. (Step Six) They do not work in adulthood, and caused more suffering if I hung on to them. This is also the Third of the Fourth Noble Truth in Buddhism.

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