How important is it ?
Slogan in Recovery
This is a slogan used in many 12 step fellowships , as well as the broader self help and mental health recovery worlds. Its main benefit is to buy yourself a bit of time before reacting to something, or rushing to judgement on someone or something.
Different things matter to different people, and no-one can really second guess what matters to someone else. The use of this slogan shouldn’t be to diminish something’s importance, but more to act as a way to slow things down a bit at times.
Reacting impulsively and instinctively can be a healthy development in recovery in nurturing an authentic and natural sense of self. There are times however, when taking a deep breath before saying or doing something can save a lot of grief.
This slogan is in some ways a conscious way of taking a very deep breath lol – it lets you ask yourself a question, with no specific answer in mind, but which has the power to defuse many tense situations or potential arguments.
