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Step 11
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When it comes to Prayer and Meditation I do not really know what to do.
I have been to a budhist centre and have had a run through with them, but when it comes to doing it at home I am no good and have no structure. My prayers are a little better but still could do with improvement, are there any web sites that...
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Today I will not drink
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Hi all,
Today I will not have a drink because:
I love my wife and don't want to cause her to be stressed.
I love being alive and I don't wish to cause myself to become deceased through my own actions.
I love eating, so I don't want to fill myself with high the calorific value of alcohol.
I hate pani...
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Forgiveness
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Reprinted from The Sermon On the Mount, by Emmet Fox
FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FORGIVE THEM THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US
This clause is the turning point of the Prayer. It is the strategic key to the whole Treatment. Let us notice here that Jesus has so arranged this m...
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Check in
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Hi all, not been around much recently, just checking in and saying hello!
All ok at this end, just the usual problems that life throws at us.
Hope you are all well,
Best wishes
Chris.
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Future
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I now know why it is so important to live in the day.
With ill health and emotional unrest, it is so easy at times to panic about the future.
I have applied for University in september, As it is an honest program I am telling you, I cant go on the way I am. I earn quite alot of money and that keeps me trapped....
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My 2nd Meeting :-)
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Hi all
I better start off by sayin iv just opened my first can... I didnt drink before meeting or anything.
OK.. I went to my second meeting tonight.. Was shitting myself again before hand.. Got in there spoke to alan... He said to phone him instead of drinking, i said well basicaly i said like...
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Xtra Xtra long take on "abandonment"
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ABANDONMENT
Because of the chronic distress in an alcoholic family, every person in that family attempts to adapt to the chronic stress. Each becomes hypervigilant, anxious and chronically afraid. In such an environment, it is impossible for anyone to get...
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hi every one
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well just wanted to say hi to all of you ,i wanted to let you all know things are going well,its amazing what can happen while you are sober .any way i went to a school in indianapolis and got my cdl and have a great job offer already.the wife and i are doing well working on things a little at a time and the kidds...
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Spiritual Experience -- appendix II
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SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
The terms “spiritual experience” and “spiritual awakening” are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
Yet i...
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Love Yourself
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Love yourself
"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"
-- Rob Bremer
Thanks to the power of our inner critics, most of us have a very poor opinion of ourselves. Yet self-contempt merely keeps us miserable and s...
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Today
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I am five hundred and eighty two days sober today.
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Struggling with the 6th and 7th
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In today's 24 hour Book, it speaks to the Two things that give us a full abundant life.
Faith and Obedience.
I do feel solid in my Sense of Faith today, but the Obedience, the daily practice of living with gratitude, humility, honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love.
I believe th...
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No tittle.. maybe tomorrows meeting
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Ok.. am rather drunkish.. Im sorry to all you for posting on here in this state....
I have just txt Alan.. Basicaly saying sory for wierd txt i sent to him yesterday.. Sayin that i will be at tomorrows meeting and was he gona be there.. he replied "good see you there".. so atleast i have aggreed to...
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Not regret the past nor shut the door on it.
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I know there is a time for everything and I'm where I'm at for a reason but this is one of the hardest for me to except, even though I'm getting there.
Needless to say I was a badddddddd boy certain times of my life and blew a lot of friendship trust and love away... I know I'm supposed to remem...
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Questions about the fourth step
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I was at a meeting last night. I was talking to a guy who I respect a whole lot. I started to ask him some questions about who to put on the resentment list. Being specific I asked him whether or not I should put myself on there. I was told that I should not and also not to put God on there. I guess I am just a little...
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Afternoon
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I must have been tired as I have just woke up and it is 1:57 pm
I have done my grattitue list and asked for help and direction for the 24 hours ahead.
A meeting tonight should place me on solid grounding and I shall also keep my eye on this page. It is all I have at the moment, or at least it feels like tha...
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FUTURE
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~ Father Leo's Meditation ~ "The future is hidden even from the men who made it." -- Anatole France Life is a glorious mystery. We can never fully understand it and it will always confuse and amaze us. After we have understood one thing, we are presented with a fresh problem. We are not perfect. We are not...
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Ok.. so im back
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Hi everyone.
Well i got away as planned friday straight from work. Traffic and weather was a bitch.. had a few stops on the way, took about 6 hours or more to get there.. had my brewers yeast and kalms and wasnt doing to bad.. Parked up at around 9ish pm i spose.. read some stuff from Staying...
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Come And Take My Hand
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When darkness closed upon me you took my hand and said 'Won't you come and walk with me, I don't want to see you dead.' So I took your hand and said I'd walk with you a ways; You seemed to have the hope I lacked to get me through my days. The days have turned to months and the months have turned to years Yet stil...
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Pain the gift nobody wants
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I purchased a book today called Pain the gift nobody wants, It opens with a story of the early death of a child with a rare neurological dysfunction that made her insensitive to pain.
I was reading it and it was a good read then this sentance jumped out at me:
"Such conditions as Leprosy, diabetes, al...
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Music that helps you relax, concentrate etc?
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I have a very wide range when it comes to music. i love Eminem.. I also love Maria Callas... I also love Korn etc.. My fav band is prob No Doubt .. i also like chart stuff.. There isnt much i dont like..
At the moment i cant stop listening to Evanesence - Fallen (albumn).. I know its a re...
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Cafeteria Style
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March 27, 2006 ~ Sometimes, an AA member will talk about taking the various parts of the program in cafeteria style -- selecting what he likes and letting alone what he does not want. Maybe others will come along and pick up the unwanted parts -- or maybe that member himself will go back later and take som...
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New to AA
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Hi, I'm Dana and I'm an Alcoholic 
After hitting my 'rock bottom' mid January, a couple weeks later I found myself sitting in a dark corner of my first AA meeting. I didn't really think at the time I was an Alcoholic...but looking back, I must have or why would I have gone? lol ...
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Just done my 6th
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Well folks I just done my step 6 and thought wow!!!!!!!! I FEEL GOOD!!!! But after doing step 6 I'm finding other faults that I never gave any thought,,,For me step 6 will be a re-accruing event as I grow spiritually...and you know what I'm fine with this,,,
I been in and out of AA rooms sence 1982...
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No one knows this about me..
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No one knows.
No one knows about me going to aa and coming on here etc..
Even my best mates.. have no idea.. i havent told ANYONE.. .. Only you people on here know about this part of my life..!..
I intend to tell my mum n dad but only after i have got myself sorted.. i would love to tel them that i ha...
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Morning everyone
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Have done a Grattitude list and asked for guidance for today.
Didnt sleep too well last night, got to sleep about 3 and woke again at 8 , do not know what to do with myself I am that much in pain.
Had to crack my back and hips back into place and thought it was going to snap in two!
Really fed up!
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*Step Six*
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"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of Character."     &...
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I have missed you all
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Hello there.
I am so glad to be back.
My computer broke about a week ago and I have not been able to post here!
This forum and the rooms are all I have got.
I am a little bit emotional today but not too bad ,I guess it does not help that I am in really bad pain.
I would be really pleased to hear from you
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Affirmations
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I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
There is more to life, than increasing its speed.
Thinking with ones heart will give the right answers to the questions.
T...
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March 26 AA daily Reflection
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THE TEACHING IS NEVER OVER
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us a...
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from "Came to Believe"
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Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a...
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Making Amends
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. --Step Nine
When we make amends we need to be clear about what we're apologizing for and the best way to say we're sorry. What we are really doing with our amends is taking respon...
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The Serenity Prayer (long version)
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God,
Grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference,
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, taking this sinful world as it is, not as I would...
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hey all
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not much new here, just waiting for spring so get my garden going again. tomatos and potatos mainly. i found a site that gives my sober heart beats 37,625,583. and counting, i hope!! take care all wagon
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A few thoughts for Sunday..and have a good day eh?
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Emotional Availability is probably one of the key factors in establishing and maintaining healthy relationships. WE are emotionally unavailable in a relationship when we are afraid. We want true love but are terrified of how it may hurt us, how it may recreate some painful experience, how we may be...
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Father Leo's Daily Meditation -Mar 26
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TEACHING "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." -- Mark Van Doren I have a need of a "sponsor" in my life. Somebody I turn to when I have problems, when I am confused or in pain, when I simply need to talk, when I feel lonely or when I am about to make a major change in my life. Every addict need...
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AA Speaker Tapes
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Hi hope all is well
I just wanted to share a web-site I found to download AA speaker tapes. I downloaded all 8 tapes of Joe and Charlie. http://www.elmoware.com/spktapes.htm Hope this is new news for someone. Thanks
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4th Step helper
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Never used this myself but some may find it helpful.
You'll need to download the latest version of Adobe Reader as it's a .pdf
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I'm supposed to get a topic e-mail
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Hi all
I'm supposed to get a topic e-mail every day but haven't been getting any for over a week. Just woundering if something is wrong.
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March 25 AA Daily Reflection
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A FULL AND THANKFUL HEART
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.
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"Selfish"?
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HELLO AGAIN ALL ;o)
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HI ALL,
I AM SORRY THAT I POSTED IN THE WAY THAT I DID AND THEN DIDN'T COME BACK TO REPLY TO YOU ALL, BUT I HAD TO HAVE MY PUTER RE-CONFIGERD OR SOMETHING! AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORK IT NOW!!
EVERYTHING GOT DUMPED.
ANTWAY I AM FEELING MUCH BETTER, I THINK IT IS MUCH TO DO WITH TH...
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Accepting what is...
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All human problems arise from not accepting whatever is. As the serenity Prayer says, "Lord, grant me the courage to change what I can change, accept what I cannot and the wisdom to tell the difference...."
Even things which may be changed can be changed faster and easier when we first ac...
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Working on my fourth step
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Hello everyone, I hope today is a good day for you all.
I am working on my fourth step and I have come to the sex inventory part. I am struggling with this. I guess I'm not sure what exactly I am supposed to do...My sponsor gave me some suggestions and I will call her again later today but I was...
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I Wish For You.....
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Comfort on difficult days, Smiles when sadness intrudes, Rainbows to follow the clouds, Laughter to kiss your lips, Sunsets to warm your heart, Gentle hugs when spirits sag, Friendships to brighten your being, Beauty for your eyes to see, Confidence for when you doubt, Faith so that you can believe...
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A couple of questions please..
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Hi.. just a few questions really
What does IC stand for?.. might be being dumb but i ent figured it yet..
What does a sponsor do? I really dont know anything about this i dont think at the mo i want anyone to sponsor me. but at mo i have no real idea of what a sponsor does.. etc.. the guy who arranged...
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as Bill sees it
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from 'as Bill sees it', p. 123
"When alcoholism strikes, very unnatural situations may develop which work against marriage partnership and compatiible union. If the man is affected, the wife must become the head of the house, often the breadwinner. As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sic...
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NOT SO SCARED TODAY
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Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to say that this morning, I woke up feeling a lot better.
Even after I wrote about it yesterday, watching the three people I had mentioned, speaking of their individual Relapses, I could not shake the over all feeling of "Feeling Scared" yesterday. Maybe it had som...
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March 24 AA Daily Reflection
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ACTIVE, NOT PASSIVE
Man is supposed to think, and act. He wasn't made in God's image to be an automaton.     &nb...
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Hope everyone has a good weekend.
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Well i did drink last night.. but i managed to put my last drink down halfway through it and crawl into bed and i do feel better for that..
Im off to wales straight from work today and coming back sunday.. Iv got my new tent to try out and make sure thats ok and get some sea fishing done... and possibl...
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