Here's a Step 11 meditation.

Find a comfortable and quiet place to sit. Sit comfortably but don't loll or laze about; keep your posture upright. Close your eyes, and focus on your breath until you're breathing comfortably and feel relaxed.

Now focus your attention on your death. It is the one thing that is certain in your life, and yet you have no idea when it may occur. As you think about your death, turn your attention to how these thoughts make you feel. How do you feel about your own death? Does the thought terrify you? Does it depress you? Or are you generally all right about it?

Reflect on how you might feel if you were told you were to die in a month, that it was a medical certainty that you could survive no longer than a few weeks. How would that make you feel? Would you panic? Would you be angry? Resentful? Would you think about all the things you'd wanted to do that you would now never be able to do? What about your children? How would you feel realizing that you would never see them grow older, do what you wanted them to do? What about your own goals? Would you be sad that you would now never reach them? Or would you feel differently about those goals? Would you simply feel resigned?

What would you do with your remaining weeks? Would you spend them doing something you'd always wanted to do? Would you ask the doctor for something to blot out the realization that you were going to die? Or would you do what you'd planned to do anyway for the next four weeks? Who would you feel sorry for? Yourself? Your family, your friends? Or would you not feel sorry at all?

Finally, how did the idea of this meditation feel before you did it? While you did it? After you did it? Is your death something you're frightened of? Or is it -- as you practice the last three Steps -- just another milestone in the profound mystery of your life?