All Addictions
12-Step Study
Workshop
12-Step Study
Workshop
8/2/2018 0 Comments Recording For August 2. 2018(week 342) 2 August 2018 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions Workshop
Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST. 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Tuesdays 8am EST Reading the AA literature: Living Sober & As Bill Sees It. Everyone is encouraged to come to this awesome group. To listen to the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# Donations towards the cost of the website please send via Pay Pal on the website or mail a check to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 If you are new to the workshop (or not receiving the questions) please phone Sue W *HS Ruddock on: 434 987 4346 and email her at: [email protected] If you do not have a members’ list ask Sue to email it to you to enable you to phone other members. If someone is no longer on the meeting it is an opportunity to ask if they would be interested in joining the next Big Book workshop which will start after we finish Step 12 & Tradition 12. IMPORTANT: The next Big Book Study Group will start on Thursday 13 September 2018. Pass this message onto anyone you think may be interested in joining. Step 12: “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.” AA 12 x 12 page 116-117 When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would. If we really depended upon God, we couldn’t very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care. These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply shaken by the shortcomings of others or by any calamity not of our own making. As we made spiritual progress, we saw through these fallacies. It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us. We saw that we would need to give constantly of ourselves without demands for repayment. When we persistently did this we gradually found that people were attracted to us as never before. And even if they failed us, we could be understanding and not too seriously affected.’ This new outlook was, we learned, something especially necessary to us alcoholics. For alcoholism had been a lonely business, even though we had been surrounded by people who loved us. But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby. We were still trying to find emotional security by being dominating or dependent upon others. Even when our fortunes had not ebbed that much and we nevertheless found ourselves alone in the world, we still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy kind of domination or dependence. For those of us who were like that, A.A. had a very special meaning. Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don’t have to be alone any more. Q1. With some people it is always all about them. a) How would you describe yourself? Are you a giver with the motive that the more I give then they will like me? Do you give because you really care about the other person? b) If someone wants to give you wisdom, or give you a gift, how do you handle that? In your spot check inventory ask: a) : God did I live in a give and take basis or was it all about me or I was giving to be a people-pleaser? Q2. How are you doing being in give and take partnership in brotherhood and sisterhood around you? Q3. Is there anybody that you are having a hard time being in partnership with? Look at yourself. What might be the issue? We saw that we would need to give constantly of ourselves without demands for repayment. Q4. look up: constantly. Write out what are your good times to really be giving constantly? Q5. Write an example of when you had to give when you knew you were hungry, angry lonely tired. If you handled it badly, what could you have done to handle it better? And if you handled it well, what did you do? Underline this whole sentence: circling ‘best’, ‘emotional stability’, ‘God.’ When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself Q6. Do you believe this? Q7 How are you doing accepting God’s perfect justice, love and forgiveness? [How you accept these is how you will give them to others]. Q7. Where am I spiritually? Am I relying on God’s protection and care or am I looking to people? And how is it working out? Q8. Line 8 final paragraph circle ‘alone’: ‘But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.’ ends
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