Comments on: Done with Alcoholics Anonymous http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/ Embracing the Journey Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:44:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: LA Weight Loss http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-151484 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:24:19 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-151484 I like Your Article about Done with Alcoholics Anonymous Perfect just what I was searching for! . I like Your Article about Done with Alcoholics Anonymous Perfect just what I was searching for! .

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]]> by: Vernita Destine http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-54366 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:15:43 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-54366 Hey there. I just want to give you a brief note to verbalize my thankfulness. I have been reading your web site for few days and have picked up a heap of excellent info and enjoyed the way you've structured your website. I am going to make my web site however I think it's too general and I would like to concentrate more on specific subjects. Hey there. I just want to give you a brief note to verbalize my thankfulness. I have been reading your web site for few days and have picked up a heap of excellent info and enjoyed the way you’ve structured your website. I am going to make my web site however I think it’s too general and I would like to concentrate more on specific subjects.

]]> by: Cliff http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-53568 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:32:55 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-53568 I know of the great disillusionment....for one the answer cannot come from a group exclusively that is focusing on avoiding something. That in it of itself gives it more power than it's worth. Now under the spell of alcoholism and all it's manifest fears, AA is a great thing. However, individually it falls short in the arena of spiritual expansion. Expansion in it of itself may be an illusion. The answer has already been known is known now and will always be there when all the other mind illusions have run their course. Seems a long way off huh? Sometimes it may seem so, but you know and I know that time and space do not really exist at all, however God did not make a mistake when His Son decided to expand creation on the physical planes of existence. And here is where all error occurs. So, therefore, except this errant world as it is and be joyful, and I will do what I can to do likewise. The message is still the same. "Be happy NOW. later namaste A brother I know of the great disillusionment….for one the answer cannot come from a group exclusively that is focusing on avoiding something. That in it of itself gives it more power than it’s worth. Now under the spell of alcoholism and all it’s manifest fears, AA is a great thing. However, individually it falls short in the arena of spiritual expansion. Expansion in it of itself may be an illusion. The answer has already been known is known now and will always be there when all the other mind illusions have run their course. Seems a long way off huh? Sometimes it may seem so, but you know and I know that time and space do not really exist at all, however God did not make a mistake when His Son decided to expand creation on the physical planes of existence. And here is where all error occurs. So, therefore, except this errant world as it is and be joyful, and I will do what I can to do likewise. The message is still the same. “Be happy NOW.

later

namaste

A brother

]]> by: Samudra http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-46809 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:35:04 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-46809 I don�t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW :) I don�t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW :)

]]> by: Lynette http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-42218 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:41:27 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-42218 Well it was you Gail, and it was great to find you and we were able to talk for a couple of times for a couple of hours. I am writing this to let you all know that Gail has passed. I miss her and wish we could have spent some time together in our older years as Gail and I spent much time together growing up, lived together as sisters for awhile and even went to high school together. You are missed by family I am sure and many friends. we all miss you. Well it was you Gail, and it was great to find you and we were able to talk for a couple of times for a couple of hours.
I am writing this to let you all know that Gail has passed. I miss her and wish we could have spent some time together in our older years as Gail and I spent much time together growing up, lived together as sisters for awhile and even went to high school together.
You are missed by family I am sure and many friends. we all miss you.

]]> by: Ed http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-42205 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:12:02 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-42205 I've met many in AA who are callous, pompous, controlling, etc. I realized early on that there are sober assholes, that they've no humility and no desire to progress spiritually. Where I got sober, they had a saying. "What do you get when you sober up a drunken horse-thief: a sober horse-thief." However, getting your feelings hurt is part of growing up. Doing what right for you does take guts. My hardest lesson was learning to stand up for myself. No one made me repeatedly go to a group I didn't what to go to. At other other groups I liked, I learned to tune out certain people. In fact, a friend of mine and I would step out for a break whenever certain people shared. To expect a group of people who managed to totally screw up their lives to behave properly all of a sudden is unrealistic. I eventually learned to base my expectations upon reality instead of how I wanted the world to be. Turning your back on any fellowship is short-sighted and serves only to sell yourself short. I too became suicidal after I got sober. I sought help outside the rooms of AA. AA doesn't claim to have the answer to everything. It did teach me to go to doctors when I had a medical problem. It also taught me how to learn how to have relationships. It also taught me a lot about relationship dynamics. It taught me I'm a really nice, loving guy. It also taught me I'm an asshole. By accepting all parts of me, I've become better able to accept all parts of other people. A lot of people talk the talk but fail to walk the walk. In my 23 years of sobriety, I see more good in AA than bad. I know some truly exceptional people who I strive to emulate. I've also learned the most valuable lesson; don't take myself too seriously. Actually, that's the second most important lesson. The real most important lesson is that I have several people up in my head, and they are not all my friends. I’ve met many in AA who are callous, pompous, controlling, etc. I realized early on that there are sober assholes, that they’ve no humility and no desire to progress spiritually. Where I got sober, they had a saying. “What do you get when you sober up a drunken horse-thief: a sober horse-thief.” However, getting your feelings hurt is part of growing up. Doing what right for you does take guts. My hardest lesson was learning to stand up for myself.

No one made me repeatedly go to a group I didn’t what to go to. At other other groups I liked, I learned to tune out certain people. In fact, a friend of mine and I would step out for a break whenever certain people shared. To expect a group of people who managed to totally screw up their lives to behave properly all of a sudden is unrealistic. I eventually learned to base my expectations upon reality instead of how I wanted the world to be.

Turning your back on any fellowship is short-sighted and serves only to sell yourself short. I too became suicidal after I got sober. I sought help outside the rooms of AA. AA doesn’t claim to have the answer to everything. It did teach me to go to doctors when I had a medical problem. It also taught me how to learn how to have relationships. It also taught me a lot about relationship dynamics. It taught me I’m a really nice, loving guy. It also taught me I’m an asshole. By accepting all parts of me, I’ve become better able to accept all parts of other people.

A lot of people talk the talk but fail to walk the walk. In my 23 years of sobriety, I see more good in AA than bad. I know some truly exceptional people who I strive to emulate. I’ve also learned the most valuable lesson; don’t take myself too seriously. Actually, that’s the second most important lesson. The real most important lesson is that I have several people up in my head, and they are not all my friends.

]]> by: samsara http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-35038 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:20:49 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/done-with-alcoholics-anonymous/#comment-35038 Thanks Rainbo and Chipper. Rainbo - Hallelujah! You recieved my points well and I appreciate that. It took a while for me to understand precisely how to identify *why* some groups and/or meetings were not good for my recovery...so it was with so much gratitude that I was able to see it's because we have the Traditions for a reason! So yes, namaste, for allowing me to see through your eyes that apparently I made the points cogent. Chipper - Thank you so much for bringing up that anger is just an emotion. But, like any other emotion it *can* rule our existence..."become" us so to speak. I love that you used the phrase "to sit with it." Sometimes it helps me to write it all out - line by line if necessary. often I can find an identifying theme or even a root. And when I find that root, I look to the 12 steps to get back to my solution...Almost like a 4th step but if I'm in whirling derbish mode, yeah just freestyle writing or line by line of every seemingly nonsensical thing can often lead me to truth. Thank God for sobriety today.... I am so grateful for the tools of the 12 steps and how ANY area of my life can be solved by applying them. Thank you both for sharing here and with me your experience, strength and hope. Good things! Thanks Rainbo and Chipper.

Rainbo - Hallelujah! You recieved my points well and I appreciate that. It took a while for me to understand precisely how to identify *why* some groups and/or meetings were not good for my recovery…so it was with so much gratitude that I was able to see it’s because we have the Traditions for a reason! So yes, namaste, for allowing me to see through your eyes that apparently I made the points cogent.

Chipper - Thank you so much for bringing up that anger is just an emotion. But, like any other emotion it *can* rule our existence…”become” us so to speak. I love that you used the phrase “to sit with it.” Sometimes it helps me to write it all out - line by line if necessary. often I can find an identifying theme or even a root. And when I find that root, I look to the 12 steps to get back to my solution…Almost like a 4th step but if I’m in whirling derbish mode, yeah just freestyle writing or line by line of every seemingly nonsensical thing can often lead me to truth. Thank God for sobriety today…. I am so grateful for the tools of the 12 steps and how ANY area of my life can be solved by applying them.

Thank you both for sharing here and with me your experience, strength and hope.

Good things!

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