Full Daily Blog Link 2014: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/alcoholics-anonymous-feb-10-2004-2014.html Alcoholics Anonymous | February 10 2013 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 2 “Sanity” | “of course I could be wrong!” Said by Ram Dass, also known as Richard Alpert. Being restored to sanity is not listening or believing in one person, it is about accessing the higher power. Came to believe that a power greater than me will restore me to sanity. Always the many voices, sharing experience strength and hope in fellowship which help me keep sober today. And then the cacophony of all the voices in the world helps me keep sober one day at a time. And it’s important to get to trust our own feelings, trust others enough to share their opinions and beliefs, and then work out what is right for me or you. I will never have all the answers to your problems today, because usually I am dealing with all the stuff I have going on and on, and I relate how fellowship helps me every day…
Some of the obvious insanity, as a newcomer: whether you are male or female, life is still going on and emotional and spiritual is developing every single day. By the time I got to fellowship, my emotional and spiritual life had become very ugly and horrible and desolate. But when I really engaged with fellowship and said to myself, I would be all in to try to be sober and accept the painful transition, physical pain, and also an emotional mess, my reality was profoundly black and bleak. And I was very afraid, fear drove most of my actions. Emotionally and physically very ill, the reality was to live in meetings and be in fellowship, as much as I could through the waking hours of each day…[continues on the blog: http://oddbook.co]
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AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm
AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=359
February 2013 | Big Book Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFF5F3EC98C6012A4
February 2013 | Twelve Step Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3BFA6062268A289D
February 2013 | Step Two Reading Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkS55ZKHZ40
February 2013 | Video Reading How It Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rj3wPVvk3Q
February 2013 | Video Reading A Vision For You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8B5pqwGXgU
February 2013 | Video Daily Playlist Step Two: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4974F3D2A26DF187
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