This is a great question! Thank you for asking this. I have my own interpretation, but i feel like it was answered here already.
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I appreciate what youāre saying but I fear I might not have made myself clear. Iām not using this as an excuse not to go to AA or anything like that. Iām just trying to find a way to find a higher power when I dont believe in God and seeing what other atheists do is helpful 
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My therapist literally said today that we need to work on me trying not to make everything perfect and just roll with things 
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I have trouble with the God concept too. Someone once told me that GOD = Group of Drunks. That works better for me.
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This is exactly what Iām trying to say as well. Just so you know Iām an atheist.
All Iāve tried to do is give you an understanding of what Iāve been thinking with regards to my journey with a hp.
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This has been my motto for like 20 years of my life. I love it!
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Iām more agnostic than atheistā¦I really feel like there is something greater than us but I just canāt say itās a single omniscient and omnipotent entity. For me my higher power is āMother Natureā. Everything about the universe is awesome and amazing and I feel privileged to be a small part of it. I ask her to help me be the best part of it I can.
I should add that when I pray it isnāt like Iām really āasking for helpā itās more like a mantra to be burned into my brain for ME to me a better person.
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Thanks @anon12657779 hope youāre having a lovely weekend!
Hi @aircircle this reply is wonderful! Thank you for sharing. I feel it the same way you mentioned, in my sobriety Iāve been so carefully guided by coincidences, gut feelings, symbols and beautiful synchronicities. Itās all around us, just need to tap in 
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Iāve decided my higher power will be Me, since Iām not religious eather. But not in a selfish way, higher power is my respect for this life Iām living, and I know it can be amazing and beautiful, I have that feeling of higher love and meaning whenever I see something beautiful, when I read, when I discover art that inspires me, when I write, when I listen to music, when I love someone. And I know that I get to know all of that only through myself so I will be grateful to myself and love and respect myself. 
It is really hard sometimes, but I know what I want now, I want to fully live and understand and experience every emotion that comes to me, good or bad, happy or sad, because it is such an amazing thing to be alive and I realised that living with a blurried mind is just me being scared of being who I really am, since it is such an incredible thing to be. 
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My sobriety was given to me during an out of body, spiritual, experience, with the warm comforting knowledge that āEverything is gonna be alright, Iāll be able to stop drinking now.ā This was beyond knowledge, itās a truth of the universe that I cannot deny.
every thing will be ok
And so it is.
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You had an out of body experience? Wow 
While meditating or was it something medical? You donāt have to answer if you donāt want to 
It happened while I was being arrested for driving under the influence. Iād only had about 7 beers at the time (basically to return me to baseline) so I donāt believe it was a drug-induced phenomenon. I can imagine that the stress of another arrest, and the sincere belief that this last one would have the most serious consequences (I had 4 prior convictions for DUI, this one would be serious jail time), could have stressed me into a dissociative state. In that state, I experienced time slowing to a stop, received the message, and then time and external action started again. I have vivid, detailed memory of the event, maybe the only thing I remember so clearly in all my life.
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Like my beard lol what ever you believe in as long as you stay sober, my HP has kept me sober for a few decades so keep on trucking
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Oh. I forgot about Pizza.
Pizza is a power by far greater than myself. With it all things are possible. 
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If I can give you an advice, being an AA member as well and I am agnostic. Define your higher power yourself. My āhigher powerā is the movement itselfā¦
The life experience shared through the AA members is so rich, that I love to hear the AA talk and itās a good way to surround yourself with people and they know what they are talking about as they are going through the recovery process themselves. And whatever youāll be sharing, they never judge, and such a group allows you to evacuate lots of emotions.
Blessings,
Ief
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This is what I try to do. It just feels quite far removed from everyone in the rooms using higher power as a synonym for God. Iām still working on it though I dont want to go onto step 4 until I have this clear in my head
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My higher power is the inter connectivity of the universe. How we impact the world around us and it impacts us- like one big tapestry, if you will.
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Kipper,
My first post and I am glad you asked this. As I suppose many have said already (nope, didnāt read all the previous posts) and I was advised by my first sponsor that my HP can be whatever I feel is stronger than me for support to help me stay strong in recovery.
I chose the forest because it is there --always, and I need something visible. Itās protecting me spiritually and if it ever goes awayā¦ well, we all have a hell of a lot more to worry about than Smitty drinking again.
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