STEP 11

  1. Read:
  2. Listen to Special Editions podcasts from the A Vision 4 You website:

Step 11 offers us the opportunity to seek constantly through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power.

  1. The Big Book guides us through Step 11 on pages 85-88. We are taught how to improve our conscious contact with GOD by using prayer and meditation on awakening, throughout the day, and at night. The only wrong way to do prayer and/or meditation is not to do it at all. Some people find it helpful to use the  Step 11 Prayers and Meditations Page in the Study Guide for Overeaters. For the Nightly Review, answer these questions (Big Book, page 86):
    • Were we resentful?
    • Were we selfish?
    • Were we dishonest?
    • Were we afraid?
    • Do we owe an apology?
    • Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once?
    • Were we kind and loving toward all?
    • What could we have done better?
    • Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time?
    • Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life?
  1. Each night, send a copy of your completed Nightly Review to your sponsor. This Nightly Review replaces your daily email to your sponsor. If you are sending your sponsor your food, include it at the end of this email.

A helpful method for completing a Nightly Review/Nightly Inventory and emailing it to your sponsor is by using the My OA Toolkit app. From Google Play or Apple Store, download My OA Toolkit (it looks like the icon to the left). You may also use a computer by going to the login page for myspiritualtoolkit.com and changing the “*Type”: to My OA Toolkit (OAT).  You will have to register to use the Toolkit. Feel free to start using My OA Toolkit or myspiritualtoolkit.com to fill out the Nightly Review/Nightly Inventory Don’t worry if you feel clumsy at first. Your experience will improve. Just keep working at it. Eventually, you will feel comfortable.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE ARE NOW READY TO CONTINUE IMPROVING YOUR CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH YOUR HIGHER POWER!