All Addictions
12-Step Study
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12-Step Study
Workshop
12/17/2019 0 Comments Recording For December 17, 2019 (Week 67) December 17, 2019
12 Step All Addictions Big Book Study Workshop Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursday’s literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# To receive the questions each week go to: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the home page where there is space to write your name and email address and also space to ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Our open study buddy groups on Sundays and Tuesdays are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. Everyone is welcome to attend these open study buddy groups. They both use the same number and code: Sundays 11 a.m. EST and Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST at (319) 527-3511 code 587213. This Week's Soul Work: Reading Reference Chapter 2 in the AA Big Book, "There is a Solution," page 28 paragraphs 1, 2 and 3. Workshop writing is question #11. 1. How do you keep an "extraordinary experience" alive? 2. Put a triangle around WE in the second paragraph. Draw a triangle. Write out your definition of the God of your understanding at the top. Write out who is on your bottom foundation: the people in your recovery. Then on the left side, write out your fellowships, your meetings, literature, tools. Then write your name on the right bottom. 3. Is there a WE in your recovery program? If not, how can you fill out that triangle? If you are a WE, write out and complete that triangle, so you have it very clear who is in your triangle, and how it works. Is there something lacking in your triangle? 4. Do you still seek God with the desperation of a drowning person? When you do seek God like a drowning person, what is your life like? If not, what is your life like? 5. Does your relationship with God seem like a flimsy reed right now? Or is your relationship with God solid? 6. Has your Higher Power "proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God?" 7. Is your God of your understanding a "loving and powerful hand" that is guiding you? 8. How do you let God be a powerful and loving hand that guides you? 9. If you are not allowing God to be a powerful hand, and loving hand, what can you do to change it? 10. Do you have a new life that has been given to you? Are you grateful for the new life that you have been given? 11. Workshop questions: a) Write out as many gratitudes as you can about this new life that you have been given, or if you prefer, a design for living that really works. b) Write out what you would tell a newcomer about what "a design for living that really works," means. 12. Are you willing enough to try to get a relationship with a living Creator? 13. How are you going to be honest about the need for having a relationship with a living Creator? 14. Write about "We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired." END Daily Meditation Pages 86, 87 and 88 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken. On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives. In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it. We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn't work. You can easily see why. If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation. If we belong to a religious denomination which requires a definite morning devotion, we attend to that also. If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing. There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one's priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer. As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. It works - it really does. We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined. But this is not all. There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead." The next chapter is entirely devoted to Step Twelve. Reprinted from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
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