“We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.” (Page 85, Big Book)
If a pool is stagnant, with no inlet and no outlet, cleaning the water would be a near-impossible job.
Once an inlet and outlet are re-established, the water flows, and cleaning is automatic, requiring no direct action.
My psychological and other problems were not solved by trying to fish the dirt out of the water, speck by speck, gunk by gunk.
I cleared out the outlet (Four through Nine) and opened the inlet (One through Three, Ten through Twelve), and the mind was cleared out automatically.