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[PDF File] Suggested Format for Conducting an AA Meeting Readings
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Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery: 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.
[PDF File] This we owe to A.A.’s future: To place our Newcomer …
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P-24. A Newcomer Asks. This is A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature. Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. • The only requirement for membership is a desire to …
[PDF File] A VISION FOR YOU F - Alcoholics Anonymous
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151. ers, we smile at such a sally. We know our friend is like a boy whistling in the dark to keep up his spirits. He fools himself. Inwardly he would give anything to take half a dozen drinks and get away with them. He will presently try the old game again, for he isn’t happy about his sobriety.
[PDF File] Why Do We Need a Conference? - Hawai'i Area 17 General …
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We need it to ensure the recovery of a child being born tonight, destined for alcoholism. We need it to provide, in keeping with our Twelfth Step, a permanent haven for all alcoholics who, in the ages ahead, can find in A.A. that rebirth that brought us back to life. “We need it because we, more than all others, are conscious of the ...
[PDF File] Chapter 3 - More About Alcoholism - (pp. 30-43) - Alcoholics …
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stretch, we could thereafter drink normally. But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty. We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, al-ways an alcoholic.’’ Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever.
[PDF File] Welcome to the District 6 Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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is a desire to stop drinking,” - we ask all who participate to confine their discussion to their problems with alcohol. Ask a friend to read “How It Works.” Read “Bridging the Gap.” Read “Why We are Here.” (Optional) Set the format for …
[PDF File] Why We Were Chosen - Central Service Office of Southern …
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and from noon January 31st to noon New Year’s Day. We are asking groups to sponsor a time slot. Each meet-ing will last for one hour and groups are asked to bring refreshments. Groups may sign up by calling the CSO at 719-546-1173, Monday thru Friday, 10 am to 4 pm. To give every group the opportunity to sponsor a meet-
[PDF File] WE AGNOSTICS I - Alcoholics Anonymous
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It is open, we believe, to all men. When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book. Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you.
[PDF File] Why Are We Here? - NA
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We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its own terms. Most of us realized that in our addiction we were slowly committing suicide, but addiction is such a cunning enemy of life that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Many of us ended up in jail or sought help through medicine, religion, and psychiatry.
[PDF File] SERVICE MANUAL THE A.A. SERVICE MANUAL
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action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven’t been given the truth may die. Hence, an A.A. service is anything whatever that helps us to reach a fellow sufferer — ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee, and to A.A.’s General
[PDF File] Twelve Steps - Step Eight - (pp. 77-82) - Alcoholics Anonymous
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STEPS Eight and Nine are concerned with personal rela-. tions. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous at-tempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, hav-ing thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may …
[PDF File] Twelve Steps - Step Six - (pp. 63-69) - Alcoholics Anonymous
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Step Six. “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”. “THIS is the Step that separates the men from the boys.”. So declares a well-loved clergyman who happens to be one of A.A.’s greatest friends. He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to try re-peatedly Step Six ...
[PDF File] Who Is an Addict?
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4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became
[PDF File] 7 Using the Serenity Prayer - Alcoholics Anonymous
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The reasons are three characteristics of alcohol: (1) It is full of calories, which give instant energy; (2) it numbs the central nervous system, so that one cannot fully feel body discom-fort; (3) after its anesthetic effect wears off, it produces agitation …
[PDF File] Has Taught Us - Alcoholics Anonymous
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and the Fellowship as a whole. Known as the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, these. principles helped to guide A.A. through its early years and they remain at the heart of. Alcoholics Anonymous today, providing the foundation upon which A.A. is built. “Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.”.
[PDF File] Chapter 9 - The Family Afterward - (pp. 122-135) - Alcoholics …
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The family of an alcoholic longs for the return of happiness and security. They remember when father was ro mantic, thoughtful and successful. Today’s life is measured against that of other years and, when it falls short, the family …
[PDF File] Why Do We Need A Conference - BC/Yukon AA
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Why Do We Need A Conference ? "We may not need a General Service Conference to insure our own recovery. We do need it to insure the recovery of the alcoholic who still stumbles in the darkness one short block from this room. We need it to insure recovery of a child being born tonight, destined to alcoholism. We need it to provide, in keeping ...
[PDF File] INTO ACTION H - Alcoholics Anonymous
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other person when we see good reasons why we should do so. The best reason first: If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Time after time new comers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling ex perience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost 72
[PDF File] Twelve Steps - Step Twelve - (pp. 106-125) - Alcoholics …
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Step Twelve. “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.”. THE joy of living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step, and. action is its key word. Here we turn outward toward our fel-low alcoholics who are still in distress.
[PDF File] Why We Were Chosen - WeJoy
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Why We Were Chosen God in His wisdom selected this group of men and women to be purveyors of His goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went instead to the humble, to the sick, to the unfortunate. He went right to the drunkard, the
[PDF File] HOW IT WORKS R - Alcoholics Anonymous
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It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper.
[PDF File] Chapter 7 - Working With Others - (pp. 89-103) - Alcoholics …
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At first engage in general conversation. After a while, turn the talk to some phase of drinking. Tell him enough about your drinking habits, symptoms, and experiences to encour age him to speak of himself. If he wishes to talk, let him do so. You will thus get a better idea of how you ought to proceed.
[PDF File] Why We Were Chosen - Design For Living AA Group
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Why We Were Chosen. A profound piece of writing from an early AA member. An often seen piece of AA literature was a small pamphlet called "Why We Were Chosen". The source of this pamphlet is a talk given by Judge John T. On the 4th Anniversary of the Chicago Group, 5th October 1943. The transcript of his talk is below.
[PDF File] A Brief Guide to A.A. - Alcoholics Anonymous
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Just as A.A. members help each other, so do A.A. groups. Here are three of the means they use to exchange help: (1) Groups in the same area set up a central office or “intergroup” office. (2) Groups everywhere share their experiences by writing to the A.A. General Service Office, in New York City.
[PDF File] Meetings in a Magazine
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hear here, who you see here, when you leave here let it stay here. I have asked __ to read “A Vision For You” and lead us in the __ prayer. (Go to Page 10.) ... for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish ...
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