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Almost 27 geezerhood ago, my \\"house of cards\\" started to fall, and similar any inveterate intoxicant/addict I started scrambling, on the watchman for ways in which to disencumber myself from the tangle that I named my existence. This juncture was different; I was airsick and beat of beingness ill and played out. This instance I understood at a reflective level that I had to regulation.

With the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, frequent meetings (sometimes 3 per day), a sponsor, and the associates who form it their concern to hang about brush and sober, I literary a new way of people being on LIFE\\'S expressions. I followed the \\"suggestions\\" of the Program. One of which was to brainstorm a \\"higher vigour.\\"

I was a \\"cradle Catholic.\\" There was no technique of inquiring for a high energy in my saintly heritage that I knew of. There was no SEARCHING, length. One did not poke about. One believed short put somebody through the mill. Growing up, I questioned a lot and as a result, was reprimanded for my cheek. I believed in a \\"Creator\\" but had no presumption in structured religion, nor sureness in its inherent assessment. Yet, intuitively I accomplished that I suffered from a deep inner self sickness, and knew heavy within my soul that my connectedness with a \\"power greater than myself\\" was motionless intact, albeit vulnerable and ineffective.

Scott Peck, journalist of \\"The Road Less Traveled,\\" said (at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY.) that not since Ignatius of Loyola\\'s Spiritual Exercises had anything come closer to a divinely addicted modus operandi of decorous someone to one\\'s God or Higher Power than the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. As Fellowship members say, \\"The Steps are shorthand in command.\\" When taken, or \\"worked,\\" from Step 1 to Step 12 (which sometimes takes geezerhood) the effect is, what I would call, \\"enlightenment.\\" If kindly myself, acknowledging and tilted on a \\"power greater than myself,\\" enumerating my intrinsic worth and shortcomings, fashioning indemnity when would-be and where necessary, and surroundings the friendly cognitive content of e'er in employment these 12 Steps in my go to the incomparable of my expertise IS enlightenment, then I have been introduced to enlightenment! I say, \\"introduced,\\" because it is a long commitment to metamorphose.

Bill Wilson, (one of AA\\'s founders), and the logician/theologian William James both believed that a \\"spiritual awakening\\" is essential (for alcoholics and addicts) for evolution. It is not simply a concern of putt thrown the carafe or drug, nor is it simply sighted a psychiatrist, and it clearly does not be on postgraduate intelligence! Restoring oneself in any of these ways is admirable, but as Bill Wilson says in AA literature, we all cognize awfully stylish or sacred group who have \\"thought themselves\\" into the heinous. What is hunted is \\"a profound character convert.\\"

So it is the property link, rousing to our association with a high power, that appears to be the key. My own search, and the searches of copious convalescent alcoholics/addicts, took me on a outing of sacred revealing that is of all time dynamical. It is so electric and rewarding that I shall always be exploring! This is not a \\"religious\\" search, nor is AA a spiritual social group. One\\'s religious self is of supreme importance; your spirituality is your own firm. AA is not attached next to any extracurricular group, be it religious nor secular. AA has been evidenced to labour wherever new programs do not, be they 100% religious, or 100% secular. AA teaches us how to unrecorded existence on life\\'s terms: mentally, definitely and spiritually!

On February 1, 2007, I will hang loose 27 time of life unsullied and dry. This certainty is genuinely solitary grievous to me and hopefully to the newcomers who despairingly infer their lives are terminated as they attend their basic AA meeting!
I can actually recommend them, \\"If I can do it, you can do it!\\"

This is how it\\'s done, one day at a occurrence.