Take time to read 164 pages

[PBA]

There is a book that is very helpful to read for anyone having a problem controlling their drinking.
The first 164 pages of the book is all you have to read. That isn't all that much to read.
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The rest of the book is peoples testimonies and experiences. It's the book Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

[Autumnleaf]

Alcoholic you say? Surely I'm not one of them.

 

[LoG]

Read and do the 12 steps as they are outlined in those pages so that by Step 9 these things will begin to happen:

THE A.A. PROMISES

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If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.


No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and selfpity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away.



Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
page 83-84, of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous.