“We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.” (Page 88, Big Book)
When one takes a dog for a walk, one is in charge of the walk.
The dog might want to sniff this or that or chase a rabbit.
But the owner—not the dog—decides whether that is to be permitted.
Thus the mind.
Years of lack of discipline results in the mind developing, as it were, a mind of its own.
Step Eleven: the practice of bringing the mind back under conscious direction.
This process, itself, is under the direction of God.