NA Daily Meditations

NA Meitations

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Just For Today
Spiritual Principle A Day

Just For Today

November 28, 2025

Being ourselves

Page 346

“To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves.“

Basic Text, p. 36

Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about humiliation, but humility is a new idea. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. But that’s not what humility is at all. True humility is, simply, acceptance of who we are.

By the time we reach a step that uses the word “humbly” we have already started to put this principle into practice. The Fourth Step gives us an opportunity to examine who we really are, and the Fifth Step helps us accept that knowledge.

The practice of humility involves accepting our true nature, honestly being ourselves. We don’t have to grovel or abase ourselves, nor must we try to appear smarter, wealthier, or happier than we really are. Humility simply means we drop all pretense and live as honestly as we can.

Just for Today: I will allow knowledge of my true nature to guide my actions. Today, I will face the world as myself.

Spiritual Principal A Day

November 27, 2025

Humbly Asking for Help

Page 342

“We all go through times when we need help of one kind or another. Asking for help may be as principled and as difficult as anything we ever do.”

Guiding Principles, Tradition Seven, “For Members”

Moving into our first apartment clean, learning how to pay bills on time, going to a funeral or a wedding for the first time in recovery, asking someone to sit with us while the craving to pick up passes–life on life’s terms presents us with opportunities to ask for help on a daily basis. Our old way of thinking–shaped by self-centeredness and denial–guards a myth that equates asking for help with weakness.

It takes a great deal of courage to push past the impulse to do all of this on our own. We cultivate humility as we surrender our excessive pride. We ask for and receive support from other members and find the courage to face new emotions and experiences. One member shared, “Today, I see that asking for help is our greatest source of strength.”

At times, life shows up and hits us square in the face. No matter how good a program we work, life still has its ups and downs. We all suffer losses. Success, at first so unfamiliar, can be challenging as well. And often we feel ill equipped to handle life on life’s terms alone. The good news is that we don’t have to.

The hardest part of getting help may be asking for it. We don’t feel worthy and may think of ourselves as a burden. We swallow our pride and turn to more experienced NA members for help. As awkward as that might be, our requests are typically met with graciousness. Having navigated many of life’s obstacles clean, they’re usually delighted to share their wisdom and offer support. The joys of helping another addict don’t end when we attain X number of years.

Learning how to be self-supporting does not mean that life’s challenges become a solo endeavor. By practicing humility, we learn what our limitations are, establish some healthy boundaries, and set out in new directions that develop our strengths.

Today I will challenge my old ways of thinking by asking someone about their experience and opening myself up to their support.