NA Daily Meditations

NA Meitations

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Just For Today
Spiritual Principle A Day

Just For Today

January 05, 2026

Recovery at home

Page 5

“We can enjoy our families in a new way and may become a credit to them instead of an embarrassment or a burden.“

Basic Text, p. 104

We’re doing great in recovery, aren’t we? We go to a meeting every day, we spend every evening with our friends in the fellowship, and every weekend we dash off to a service workshop. But if things are falling to pieces at home, we’re not doing so great after all.

We expect our families to understand. After all, we’re not using drugs anymore. Why don’t they recognize our progress? Don’t they understand how important our meetings, our service, and our involvement with the fellowship are?

Our families will not appreciate the change NA is working in our lives unless we show them. If we rush off to a meeting the same way we rushed off to use drugs, what has changed? If we continue to ignore the needs and desires of our partners and children, failing to accept our responsibilities at home, we aren’t “practicing these principles in all our affairs.”

We must live the program everywhere we go, in everything we do. If we want the spiritual life to be more than a theory, we have to live it at home. When we do this, the people we share our lives with are sure to notice the change and be grateful that we’ve found NA.

Just for Today: I will take my recovery home with me.

Spiritual Principal A Day

January 05, 2026

Seeking Connection Instead of Distraction

Page 5

“We try to minimize distractions so that we can concentrate on knowledge arising from our own spiritual connection.'”

NA Step Working Guides, Step Eleven, “Prayer and Meditation”

Distractions are tricky: The more we try to get rid of them, the more power they seem to gain. As an example, if we spend the entire meeting thinking about not taking our phone out, we probably hear just as little of what is shared as if we’d had the phone out the whole time. Worse yet, if we put all of our energy into thinking about other people on their phones, how well are we really listening? As with our connection to the meetings we attend, we improve conscious contact with a Higher Power when we focus on the contact, rather than the distractions.

We all have plenty of distraction techniques that give us ways to avoid being present in the current moment. Maybe we stare at a screen for long stretches to distract us from being sad or angry or bored. Maybe we get pulled out of our meditation by hearing the neighbor’s dog bark its head off or the trash truck thundering down the street or . . . air moving. No matter what the source of distraction, internal or external, real or imagined, distractions interfere with our conscious contact–with ourselves, each other, and our Higher Power.

How do we focus on maintaining our connection? In a meeting, it’s as simple as listening closely to what is being shared. If our mind drifts to the phone in our pocket (or the one in someone else’s hand), we simply bring our attention back to the person who is sharing. In meditation, we simply listen for “whatever’s there.” If we catch our mind drifting, we simply bring our attention back to the present moment. By focusing on where we are in the moment, we can resume our connection with our Higher Power. We listen, we share, and we often find that we already have exactly what we need.

Listening and sharing well in meetings can help me better listen and share with my Higher Power. If my mind drifts away from conscious contact, I won’t dwell on the distraction–I will simply shift my attention back to the moment I am sharing with my Higher Power.