I try emphasise always I speak for myself and not for AA. I may share how AA works in my life, not how AA works for anyone else. In AA what you see is what you get on any given day. You see and hear the experience, strength and hope of many and how sobriety is working just for today. People living sober today… Open to life and new living, we stop hanging on to old fears, let go and open the door ~ Phillips Brooks “A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.” -/- As we come to believe it may be Godward and or Goodward. Courage, faith, prayer and meditation develops our choices and personal beliefs.. These days I know sober there is only one safe option from this list ~ Frank Sinatra ~ “Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.” -/- Prayer, we all pray, sometimes we don’t know it, or realise how to focus, seems like it works with a good conscience and knowing life is always on life’s terms.. Life on lifes terms, sometimes the answer is yes, and sometimes the answer is no ~ Mary Baker Eddy “Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.” Spiritual is being able to cope with reality, fixing we live in a world of our own, fantasy.. As we reflect on daily activities, life works whatever the outcome ~ Marianne Williamson “I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.” -/- Our attitude and behaviour changes … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Question by : Is Alcoholics Anonymous a harmful cult or just a harmful waste of time?
It has been proven time and time again to not work as a cure for alcoholism. Then with their if you have one drink one drunk crap they preach people who do slip up on the AA plan tend to binge drink since the program makes people think they cannot stop if they have one drink.
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Answer by VegasPapi A waste of time.
Its more of a organization party, pizza here cookies there and have a nice day.
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Question by walshkid: do you know anyone suffering from alcoholism, if someone you love is dying slowly alcoholics anonymous works?
A.A PROGRAM WILL HELP SOMEONE SUFFERING FROM THEIR KILLER ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL.DONT ABANDON THEM ,IF YOU LOVE THEM GET THEM TO AN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETING IT REALLY WORKS.
alcoholics anonymous helps them want to stop,they are surrounded by true friends that will come to their aid 24 hours a day.
July 30 Steps In Action Alcoholics Anonymous DonInLondon ~ Serenity does not come from being right or righteous. Often we may feel so. Serenity seems to come from acceptance of life on life’s terms. Everything is as it is, we can change our attitudes and behaviour, we are hard pressed if we try the same with others… A prayer for all seasons and time ~ a meditation in moments where life is joyful or sad, difficult or easy. The serenity prayer offers a reminder in any moment that life is just the way it may be now. That we can change some elements, other elements we cannot and the wisdom is knowing the difference. Acceptance of truth, love and wisdom of others…In good conscience or to the God of your understanding ~God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. The prayer and meditation, for me, a reflection of and feeling the truth of now and not to wishful thinking… A better perspective on serenity… The truth as it really is can be: wonderful, difficult, denied or accepted. As truth is revealed and experienced by us, our feelings change our thinking changes. With a more sober outlook and maturity we face the consequences of our actions. We feel, we think. We respond as we may to truth… -/- AA Daily Reflections ~ “Giving back: July 30 . . . . he has struck something better than gold. . . . He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will …
DonInLondon ~ The good news is the people who disturb us and rent out space in our heads are evicted sooner in recovery. And it is true, no amount of any philosophy can shift the tenant until we have processed, from denial to acceptance and the eviction is complete. Progress can take time, and I am working on awkward tenants who seem to squat from time to time… Usually the tenants move in when I am happy and then for some reason they hurt me, because I trust them to behave as I do. Open, honest and willing and hope they will treat me fairly as I do them. When they don’t, accept and forgive, and the consequence is they can’t come back for a while… or never! July 18 2010 Grateful for what I have… Rock bottom, some time back, I woke up, no idea what time of day. A moment of clarity, life could get no worse. If this was as bad as it could get and still be alive. No idea what to do, I picked up the phone and asked for help. Now I can do this every day… July 18 2010 Working Hard… Living life to the full? Driven to be the best I could be. I feared not being good enough, being found out as lacking. Evading guilt and shame and hiding in a bottle. Today I live life with faith and courage, imperfectly perfect, open, honest and willing to change today… -/- AA Daily Reflections ~ “Grateful for what I have: July 18 ~ During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God. [12&12] Today my prayers … Video Rating: 0 / 5
DonInLondon Spiritual living and the fourth dimension, “time” is about utilising previous life experience to find out why the past contributes to positive or negative events today. No longer living in the past we are rocketed into the present moment. It can be “rude awakening,” and always a “spiritual awakening” if we are grounded in truth, love and wisdom… September: daily reflections, all about step & tradition nine. “Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” And of course: “the promises.” In my experience the promises can be resentments under construction if we hand over personal responsibilities to our higher power. September 2008 ~ 2010 Step nine is about clearing the wreckage of the past, what our old attitudes and behaviour did to ourselves and others and making the amends we can. Back then, when I as an active alcoholic I hurt myself and others. Step nine recognising old ways, making amends and committing to new ways of living… the promises Recovery is not about waiting for some magic, it is about putting in action to change our attitudes and behaviour. We need learn our feelings anew in recovery long enough to know what they are. Having found out what our feelings are, we then need take action or stinking thinking can make as mad as hell all over again today… -/- AA Daily Reflections ~ “Willingness to grow… If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. [As Bill Sees It ... Video Rating: 0 / 5
Spiritual is outward reality, truth, love, cherished and included in an infinite universe, timeless and now..Driven to extremes of any attitude or behaviour, EGO [EGO Edging God or & Good Out] ~ Don Dokken [Poison] “Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix” -/- When we are fixing, tripping, skimming the surface, superficial and indifferent, consumed in an inner world rich in nothing but ourselves… In my Ivory Tower, drink served its purpose to protect me from reality, not knowing truth, isolated and entrapped in my own deep chaos ~ Sammy Davis Jr “Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity” -/- Each day sober more is revealed, about living, inclusion, choices and love.. Who am I, where was I? Who are you, where are we? ~ Marguerite Duras “Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day” -/- Lost and forgotten.. We do not know until it is too late, ignorance, then denial and hooked ~ Finley Peter Dunne “Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts” -/- Once we know the facts, we make choices, find help, let go self obsession, live free to good choices.. For those of us who are alcoholics, we are the problem and the solution, knowing is the key which opens the door to sobriety ~ Matt Groening ~ “Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems” Knowing what we can do and cannot do safely offers opportunity to … Video Rating: 0 / 5
DonInLondon ~ Humility offers a life open and outward looking. The more we know, the less we know. If I share what works for me, and you share what works for you and we both take notice, we grow with grace and unity one day at a time… Good News the big book is online, the 12&12 is online, and it is official available free from AA world services. The website “online daily reflections” fulfils an obvious development of sharing the essence of AA in the modern communications era. This website has always been about sharing the message, free and without prejudice. No doubt when someone has time the AA daily reflections will be on the official website, free as it always need be and without prejudice. I need keep my side of the street clean, work to good conscience and share a message always. Tradition 1, no rules, nor laws or regulations, no one can tell another person what to do. AA unity is based on the group conscience at meeting level, and we are all humble servants living free to our personal choices. 19 July Simple Steps for Complicated People… If something feels right when we are sober, it probably is. As we develop faith, courage and esteem, the promises become a reality. Then we think through what we can do. Practical living is simple with 12 steps and a plan based on reality. We can write out a SWOT plan, Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats, promises live today… 19 July Courage faith and confidence grow as we let go extremes of fear, ego and wearing a … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Inclusion in life, choices and love all we need to sustain emotional and spiritual connections ~ Eva Burrows “In family and or fellowship life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” Sober we find a path in living in the moment of now… A moment of peace, a moment of turmoil, moment by moment, serenity in a heartbeat ~ Confucius “we must often change, we who would be constant in happiness or wisdom” -/- A breath of fresh air, and everything changes… Courage restored daily? Anything is possible! ~ Miguel de Cervantes “He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.” -/- Faith courage and confidence, a part of daily living… Learning how not to fix myself daily, or fix anything has been difficult. Now it is daily progress. I chatted with my 78 year old Mum earlier and asked about amends, if I had left anything unsaid which still rankles. “No, you are in recovery, you were unwell, you do what you can now.” I learn wisdom and acceptance every day.. A sign of rushing and being rushed, we add more and more to each day. I do when I forget to let something go, usually forgetting step one, powerless over people places and things, step two anything and everything can drive me insane and step three, let good prevail even when its not perfect as we might wish it so. Let go perfect, let life be a tangle… THE KEYSTONE MARCH 14 He is the Father, and we … Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Back in the final days of drinking I can forget how bad it got… Then I hear a harrowing share detailing the physical and emotional horror. I sat there feeling the shock of truth. My story no less shocking mirrored what I heard. We humans have amazing capacities to recover when we find a path. In recent months many newcomers to the fellowship. Some very wary of the people, the places, what they hear and what they see. In early days I wanted to fit in and be a good student. I did people please, and I did get caught in the web of some with little or no integrity. And then realised that fellowship is like all walks of life, people are people, some good and some bad, plenty of wisdom to learn and plenty of chaff a day at a time… August 2008 ~ 2010 Spiritual experience, all day every day… some suggest it is the ability to cope with now, some suggest it is letting go our opinion and personal view “thinking kept me drinking,” some suggest less denials and more truth, less of a personal judgment and standing in others shoes. Could it be simply living in the moment? “All inclusive today” In fellowship, in life and more in tune with “truth, love and wisdom shared with me.” To be included, loved and develop choices in life as life happens. There is always a balance in what we can and cannot do today, accepting the truth is my connection to spiritual today… -/- AA Daily Reflections ~ “August 24 Step 8 Daily Reflections Video Reading: A riddle that works… It may be possible …
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August 9 | Steps In Action Alcoholics Anonymous DonInLondon ~ On a positive note, Thank God I am sober Riots in London. A breakdown in law and order. Anger and resentment, loss of reason and insanity rules. Why? The answers will come in time. Most of us know the answers, and many just cannot accept them. If we do not invest in people, people will likely divest those privileged in a broken society. Weak leadership, process driven, reliant on “the establishment,” out of touch and out of sight need a kick up the arse… I can recall working hard and putting every effort into my work. Driven beyond reason to sustain the unsustainable. Job cuts, sell off and no guarantees of a future. I did what I always did, found another job to start. It looked bigger and better, and turned out to be more of the same. A breakdown, loss of purpose and no identity, I sought oblivion and wanted to end it all. Drink helped me on my way to hell back then… August 9 2010 ~ Before I go to bed at night, I forgive everyone and everything who has ever harmed me… Much easier after step 9 in our programme and after a while of practicing the steps. But if the resentment still lingers, I say “fuck em” and then pray for them and eventually forgiveness finds its way. Progress not perfect today… August 9 2010 ~ This matter of honesty everyday… Upon waking, my daily practice, is ask myself how am I feeling, then think why, then what may I do. If I try deny my feelings, I start my day dishonestly. What … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Usually the tenants move in when I am happy and then for some reason they hurt me, because I trust them to behave as I do. Open, honest and willing and hope they will treat me fairly as I do them. When they don’t, accept and forgive, and the consequence is they can’t come back for a while… or never! July 18 2010 Grateful for what I have… Rock bottom, some time back, I woke up, no idea what time of day. A moment of clarity, life could get no worse. If this was as bad as it could get and still be alive. No idea what to do, I picked up the phone and asked for help. Now I can do this every day… July 18 2010 Working Hard… Living life to the full? Driven to be the best I could be. I feared not being good enough, being found out as lacking. Evading guilt and shame and hiding in a bottle. Today I live life with faith and courage, imperfectly perfect, open, honest and willing to change today… -/- AA Daily Reflections ~ “Grateful for what I have: July 18 ~ During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God. [12&12] Today my prayers …
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