Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

by Bill Pittman

To become the person we can become, we must drop the rock—all the grasping and holding on to old patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling that are harmful to ourselves and to others.

God, I don’t care what I sound like, or look like, who my partners are, or where I live. I just don’t want to be like this anymore. On Your terms, in Your time, please remake me as You will. Thank You.

The winners actively seek and practice a new way of living. A new way of being. A new way of thinking. A new way of behaving. A new way of relating.

I have followed the same procedure on other emotional problems, with the same result. I just have to keep in mind that if I am not 100 percent sincere in my willingness to be rid of the problem,

Another view of this is the story about Buddha talking to some of his students about anger. Buddha said anger is like picking up a burning coal with the intention of throwing it at another person. We are the ones who get burned in the process.

Dance, yoga, long walks, martial arts, movement classes, and sports are all ways of getting in touch with our bodies and releasing our holding patterns.