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ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: May 1, 2021, 8:12 am
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[center]THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had
become
unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to
sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the
care of God as we
understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the
exact nature
of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing
to make
amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
when to do
so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly
admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with
God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will
for us and
the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these
steps, we tried to
carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these
principles in all our
affairs.
HTML https://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/smf-121_en.pdf
Copyright  1952, 1953, 1981 by Alcoholics Anonymous
Publishing
(now known as Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.)
All rights reserved.[/center]
[center]HOW IT WORKS
[/center]
[center]Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly
followed our path. Those who
do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give
themselves to this simple
program, usually men and women who are constitutionally
incapable of being honest with
themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault;
they seem to have been born
that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and
developing a manner of living which
demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average.
There are those, too, who
suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of
them do recover if they have
the capacity to be honest.
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like,
what happened, and
what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have
and are willing to go to
any length to get it — then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier,
softer way. But we
could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of
you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of us
have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was
nil until we let go absolutely.
Remember that we deal with alcohol — cunning, baffling,
powerful! Without help it is too
much for us. But there is One who has all power — that One is
God. May you find Him now!
Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point.
We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.
Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with
it.’’ Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to
maintain anything like perfect adherence to these
principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing
to grow along spiritual lines.
The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim
spiritual progress rather
than spiritual perfection.
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic,
and our personal adventures
before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our
alcoholism.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.
HTML https://www.aa.org/assets/en_us/p-10_howitworks.pdf
Reprinted from pages 58-60 in the book Alcoholics Anonymous.
Copyright © by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. 1939,
1955, 1976, 2001.
www.aa.org[/center]
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: May 2, 2021, 12:12 pm
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: May 4, 2021, 8:35 am
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: May 4, 2021, 4:57 pm
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Prayer for Serenity
HTML https://www.celebraterecovery.com/resources/cr-tools/serenityprayer
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, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
The AA Serenity Prayer
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These simple words ring clear through the hearts and minds of
Alcoholics Anonymous members across the world:
[size=14pt]God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I
cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference.
This often used AA prayer is an excerpt from a longer prayer
commonly attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr. Although its origins
are a bit unclear, its impacts are not. The Serenity Prayer
serves as a focal point for the very spirit of AA, anchoring its
members to its quintessential teachings about surrender and
acceptance. Below, we provide the full Serenity Prayer along
with an examination of its history, meaning and importance so
that we all might carry its lessons closely and transform common
hardships into a calming surrender.
The Full Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.
Amen.
AA, the Twelve Steps and the Serenity Prayer
Members of Alcoholics Anonymous have enthusiastically embraced
this prayer—known as the Serenity Prayer—almost from the moment
they discovered it. In fact, these 25 words are heard in most
every AA meeting and widely taken as a succinct statement of a
path to sanity and sobriety.
The Serenity Prayer meshes perfectly with the spirituality of
AA's Twelve Steps. And, although the origin is thought to be
Christian, the Serenity Prayer is applicable to your daily life
regardless of religion or spiritual belief system. There are
several versions of the Serenity Prayer, each with slightly
different wording that support groups have adopted. The full
Serenity Prayer text has stronger religious overtones.
Also there are conflicting accounts of the prayer's origin. The
Serenity Prayer has been variously attributed to an ancient
Sanskrit text, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi
and others. Many AA members were first exposed to the prayer in
1948, when it was quoted in the Grapevine, an AA periodical.
There it was credited to American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892-1971). The Serenity Prayer spread both through Niebuhr’s
sermons and church groups in the 1930s and 1940s, and was later
adopted and popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and other Twelve
Step programs.
Living the Serenity Prayer in Recovery from Alcohol or Drug
Addiction
For many, the first verse of the Serenity Prayer serves as a
daily touchstone, reminding us that to achieve serenity, we must
approach each moment with wisdom and courage. The Serenity
Prayer accurately expresses a central problem of addiction and
prescribes a timeless solution.
The prayer’s message about acceptance echoes insights from Bill
W., cofounder of AA. In the book Alcoholics Anonymous (published
by AA World Services), Bill described the core trait of
alcoholics as self-centeredness—something he called "self-will
run riot." He further described the alcoholic as "an actor who
wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the
lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in
his own way." Bill's solution: "First of all, we had to quit
playing God."
What blocks some alcoholics and addicts from achieving serenity
is their intense desire to achieve a sense of absolute
control—one that is simply not possible for human beings. This
need for control has two aspects. First is an attempt to control
the behavior of others, a strategy that addicts cling to despite
its repeated failure. Second is the attempt to control feelings
by medicating them with mood-altering chemicals. This strategy,
too, is doomed to failure.
An alcoholic’s quest for absolute control can lead to misery,
which may contribute to substance abuse problems. Ironically,
the need to control may also be a response to the
unmanageability caused by their out-of-control use of drugs. And
the vicious cycle continues until the addict accepts that there
will always be external circumstances that we cannot change. The
prayer instead points us to examine our inner life: We cannot
directly control our feelings. However, we can influence our
feelings through what we can control—our thinking and our
actions. By focusing on those two factors, we can attain the
final quality promised by the Serenity Prayer: courage.
The Serenity Prayer is a wide door, one that's open to people of
all faiths and backgrounds. It speaks wisdom to addicts and
non-addicts alike. People who live this prayer discover how to
strike a dynamic balance between acceptance and change. This
gift is precious, and it's one that we can enjoy for a lifetime
of serenity.[/size]
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: May 11, 2021, 4:46 pm
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I've been sober since 4/18/21 - I don't want pats on the back or
accolades of any kind but I'm thinking of Journaling in this
thread, periodically. Each day is a new challenge and I stay
focused on God, the 12 Steps and recovery.
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: June 19, 2021, 7:10 am
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=1269.msg29199#msg29199
date=1620769561]
I've been sober since 4/18/21 - I don't want pats on the back or
accolades of any kind but I'm thinking of Journaling in this
thread, periodically. Each day is a new challenge and I stay
focused on God, the 12 Steps and recovery.
[/quote]Today is 61 days sober, thank God.
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: guest8 Date: June 19, 2021, 10:17 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=1269.msg31897#msg31897
date=1624104642]
[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=1269.msg29199#msg29199
date=1620769561]
I've been sober since 4/18/21 - I don't want pats on the back or
accolades of any kind but I'm thinking of Journaling in this
thread, periodically. Each day is a new challenge and I stay
focused on God, the 12 Steps and recovery.
[/quote]Today is 61 days sober, thank God.
[/quote]
Our prayers are with you.
Blade
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: July 1, 2021, 6:59 pm
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How I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian |
TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
A hugely successful actress who saw her personal life and career
tested by addiction, Claudia shares her journey of overcoming
alcoholism and offers fresh perspectives on alcohol use disorder
treatments.
Claudia Christian landed her first TV series at 18 on NBC’s
nighttime drama Berringers and her first studio feature at 20 in
New Line Cinema’s cult hit “The Hidden.” Over 50 films, hundreds
of TV shows and 5 music albums later, Claudia has worked with
George Clooney, Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Nicolas Cage and
countless other luminaries.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference
format but independently organized by a local community.
14 minutes
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts&list=WL&index=17
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: July 4, 2021, 5:56 pm
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WHAT ALCOHOL DOES TO YOUR BODY
In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy
discusses the various structures ethanol interacts with as it
journey's through the human body after consumption.
27 MINUTES
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Re: ADDICTION - Drugs, Alcohol & AA's Twelve Steps
By: patrick jane Date: July 18, 2021, 3:15 am
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90 days since my last drink. ;D
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