Step 7 HEART CONFIDENCE
We are moving away from our negative perceptions and creating a new self. This new self finds confidence from listening to the heart. In step three we acknowledged that developing a more realized connection with our heart would helps us find our way. Now in step seven, we solidify this connection even more by humbly asking our heart to reveal our shortcomings. Our hands are not clean. We have played a part in all of this, and because in step four and five we were able to let go of what we have gone through with others, we are now ready to acknowledge our own part in all our experience with others.
Our heart is our connection to a more developed perception of Life. Our heart is our being, and if we can move from our imperfect self into this being, our shortcomings will melt away. We have to find within ourselves an honest place of humility so we can embrace our mistakes without our egos stopping us. There we discover the reason we have been acting on our shortcomings. Once we acknowledge this, we instantly feel how we can make things better. Love is what sustains life. If we can bring our shortcomings into the light, they will no longer be able to influence us away from love. Our humility will lead us to a new source of confidence. By humbling the side of our self that is always defensive, we change our position in life, and become more rooted in heart.