If you have a desire to stop drinking and your drinking is causing you problems -- or, if you have discovered that living without alcohol is uncomfortable, and you get restless, irritable or discontented when not drinking -- it is highly suggested that you find a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. You may discover why you feel this way.
While we stress the importance of going to AA Meetings -- AA Meetings are not the Alcoholics Anonymous program of recovery.
Recovery takes place as a result of taking the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as presented in the book Alcoholics Anonymous.
Please don't misunderstand... Going to AA Meetings is vital for an AA Member's recovery.
AA Meetings are a place where we can reach out to each other, support each other and practice our 12th Step. And, we need the AA Meetings, to remind us what our problem is and what the solution is!
One of the first signs of a sober alcoholic's relapse to drinking, is not going to meetings on a regular basis. It's also a sign that they have stopped doing the other things that are keeping them sober.
However, many of us almost died from alcoholism, by listening to the popular myth that's often heard in AA Meetings -- "Just don't drink and go to meetings
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Easy Does it..Keep It Simple..Let Go and Let God..
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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.
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.
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Easy Does it..Keep It Simple..Let Go and Let God..
