A Dozen Steps

April 24th, 2008

Bring The Body And…

The Mind will follow?
What about -

The Heart?

Learning To Love Ourselves
“Alcoholism was a lonely business.” Funny, that’s about all I needed to read this morning. But it continues - “even though we were surrounded by people who loved us… We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others… We […]

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April 6th, 2008

Fear Profits No Man

Yes, heard at a meeting…
“Pain shared in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous is cut in half; Joy shared in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous is doubled!”
Also heard in meetings and known, by personal experience, to be true…
More reality from the Daily Reflection;
“When I stopped drinking I began a lifetime process of recovery from unruly emotions, […]

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April 5th, 2008

Spiritual Gold-Bricking [Unrealistic Inventory]

Bill Wilson tells a pointed story about a group of fellows finding fully minted gold coins in “The Language of the Heart” (page 256) that you might want to read…
The story creates a symbolic picture graphically which tells Bill “that I may attain ‘humility for today’ only to the extent that I am able to […]

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April 4th, 2008

Burned Up! Angry - Resentful!

How did they know?
Page 64 - 66;
We asked ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were “burned up.”
Our injuries? One example;
Self-esteem: (Mr. Brown is such an a**) “Brown may get […]

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