Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts on recovery’
Saturday – Ep: 400 – We Agnostics – Pages 53-55 – Where is the fundamental idea of God? How do we find the Great Reality?
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Read MoreThoughts for recovery – No 77- Recovery from Alcoholism – Part 4
See resources for recovery to find card on recovery from alcoholism to follow In the previous 3 parts I covered how I moved out of my self centered world thru the arch of freedom into the world of the spirit. The promises on page 83 come true when we have entered this world. The book…
Read MoreThoughts for Recovery – No. 76 – Recovery from Alcoholism – Part 3
See chart on recovery from alcoholism in resources. In part one I looked at how living self centered and separated from God my life could never be manageable. I would seek alcohol to change how I saw the world. I became powerless over alcohol. I had no power to live. Thus I was surrendered and…
Read MoreThoughts for Recovery – No. 75 – Recovery from Alcoholism – Part 2
You may find the chart recovery from alcoholism in links and documents to follow. In part one I looked at the world of my alcoholism and how living in that world did not work. It brought me to my knees. I was completely defeated. I had hit bottom and I was brought to a place…
Read MoreThoughts for Recovery – No. 74 – Recovery from Alcoholism – Part 1
This thought will focus on a chart I made to help new people see on paper how I see recovery from alcoholism. See chart under links and documents titled recovery from alcoholism Chuck C. in his famous new pair of glasses talk, stated there is only one problem. Conscious separation. One solution. Conscious contact. That…
Read MoreThoughts on Recovery – No. 73 – Step 1 – Fred -More about Alcoholism – Pages 39-42 – Part 2 – A powerful message for all alcoholics no matter how long you are sober!
In part 2 Fred is in the hospital. When he recovers enough to review the events he becomes aware that he made no fight whatever against the first drink. There was no thought to consequences at all. He recalled that his alcoholic friends prophesied the time and place would come – he would drink again.…
Read MoreThoughts on Recovery – No. 71 – Step 1 – Description of the Alcoholic – The desperate experiment of the first drink – Why does he? Example a man called Jim – Part 2 – More about Alcoholism – P 35-37 – go to Sunday year 3 episode 32 for podcast
In part 2 we will look at Jim’s story. He tells the AA members exactly how it happened that he drank again. It is his story. It starts with him going to work on Tuesday morning. Where was he Monday? He remembers he was irritated that he was a salesman for the agency he once…
Read MoreThoughts on Recovery – No. 70 – Step 1 – Description of the Alcoholic – The desperate experiment of the first drink – Why does he? Example a man called Jim – Part 1 – More about Alcoholism – P 35-37
The chapter More about Alcoholism is designed to make the reader understand that the alcoholic is powerless, powerless, powerless, to control how much we drink after we take the first drink and powerless to keep from taking the first drink. This is the hopeless condition of mind and body that defines the real alcoholic. Is…
Read MoreThoughts on Recovery – No. 68 – The Spiritual Axiom and the Serenity Prayer in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous – Pages 87-88 – Step 10-11 – Part 2
In part 1, I looked at the spiritual power of pausing whenever I am disturbed. This act of pausing reminds me I am no longer running the show. When I am disturbed I am in danger because I am back in self and separated from God. This is the essence of the spiritual axiom. I…
Read MoreThought No. 67 – The Spiritual Axiom and Serenity Prayer in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous – Pages 87-88 – Step 10-11 -Part 1
I have been thinking about writing on the paragraph on the bottom of page 87 to top of page 88. It came to me that this is the spiritual axiom and the serenity prayer in the AA big book. I have written and talked about the spiritual axiom. It is in step 10 in the…
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