The "still suffering" alcoholic addicts with minds that no longer obsess over alcohol but, rather, minds that obsess about the ordinary human trials and tribulations of life

<div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="zemanta-img"> <div class="zemanta-img"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_book_2nd_edition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="AA Big Book" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="300" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Big_book_2nd_edition.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="200" /></a></div> </div> </div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous is, of course, our most valuable resource in early recovery, offering, as it does, a complete guide for rapidly taking the newcomer through the Twelve Steps so that he or she may be released from active alcohol addiction. But how effective is it, in and of itself, for working with the "alcoholic who still suffers" years (and, perhaps, many years) into sobriety as he or she continues to struggle, not with the obsession over alcohol, but with "the bondage of self"?<br /><br />Realistically, there are many within the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous (and its sister organizations), and many returning to these rooms sober, whose spiritual experiences have not been so "deep and effective" as to relieve them from the obsessive nature of the mind. There are those, too, who have had illuminating spiritual experiences only to fall from such spiritual heights and who continue to struggle to recapture what they once had. These are the "still suffering" alcoholic addicts with minds that no longer obsess over alcohol but, rather, minds that obsess about the ordinary human trials and tribulations of life - the instinctive drives for security, sex and society - in their many varieties. The 'Big Book' is necessarily silent about such men and women, as it was written so early in the experience of the then-recovering alcoholics.</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2014/07/power-of-12-step-process-and-gift-of.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/285171797_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2014/07/power-of-12-step-process-and-gift-of.html" style="background-image: none; 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The "still suffering" alcoholic addicts with minds that no longer obsess over alcohol but, rather, minds that obsess about the ordinary human trials and tribulations of life

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To be in our natural state of loving-kindness and appreciation does not require lovable objects

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B-NKjpps5vY/Vnv2RvXS7VI/AAAAAAAAUmo/9jTq2Pi89vk/s1600/FotorCreatedmastermind345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B-NKjpps5vY/Vnv2RvXS7VI/AAAAAAAAUmo/9jTq2Pi89vk/s320/FotorCreatedmastermind345.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The counter to the obsessional selfishness of the addictive cycle. Is to be in our natural state of loving-kindness and appreciation does not require lovable objects for you to focus our attention toward, but only an absence of resistance, which is the only thing that can hinder or mute our natural state of loving-kindness , appreciation and Well-Being.</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://tenstage.blogspot.com/2015/11/we-will-find-that-loving-kindness.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364027908_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; 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display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We feel our immediate surround fill with the power of loving kindness</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/07/we-learn-to-recognise-our-child-within.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/350624818_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/07/we-learn-to-recognise-our-child-within.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We learn to recognise our child within, the function of loving-kindness is to soothe and relieve our difficult emotions.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-stages-acknowledges-scientific.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336853298_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-stages-acknowledges-scientific.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; 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display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-essence-of-loving-kindness-is-being.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/363488018_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-essence-of-loving-kindness-is-being.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness.</a></li> </ul> </div>

To be in our natural state of loving-kindness and appreciation does not require lovable objects

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As we grow studying the ten stages, we leave others behind. We outgrow certain relationships and part company with those who cannot grow with us.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UPIrsBnyRx4/VTV2Lkoi4CI/AAAAAAAASAA/7uzw3aGWing/s1600/1-10449518_794922233911106_177814202340947204_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UPIrsBnyRx4/VTV2Lkoi4CI/AAAAAAAASAA/7uzw3aGWing/s1600/1-10449518_794922233911106_177814202340947204_n.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">As we grow studying the ten stages, we leave others behind. We outgrow certain relationships and part company with those who cannot grow with us. We seek other child within members with whom we have an affinity—those who nurture our developing sense of self and our deepening wonder at our recovered life.<br /><br />As we wake up, we leave behind those invested in the recovery sleep of constant dissociation. As close as our relationships may have been in the past, our convulsions of consciousness are not welcome to those who remain in dissociated oblivion. Our very presence disturbs them and they retaliate by denigrating our awareness. We must be very careful not to allow others’ deadened life force to numb our newly-won vitality. We must guard our precious perceptions and not squander these treasures on those whose defenses would undermine their meaning.<br /><br />Perhaps most difficult of all, we must leave the memories of our families—and particularly our parents. We must part company with these primary figures who wield tremendous and often deadly ancestral power. If we are not disciplined and committed to our departure, their censoring voice will crush our adult attempts to escape their orbit.<br /><br />Some leave their parents with direct confrontations, which may be necessary to break the poisonous cord of family connection. Others may leave with quiet grace—such that the family may not even notice. Perhaps we needn’t disturb their sleep. We may even choose to maintain civil, but distant contact, as long as we are not pulled back into their world of dissociation and denial. But this is risky because they will try to pull us back. Yet no matter how we leave, withdraw we must, leaving behind the hope of their joining us and blessing us as we venture into the depths of our recovery.</span>

As we grow studying the ten stages, we leave others behind. We outgrow certain relationships and part company with those who cannot grow with us.

As we grow studying the ten stages, we leave others behind. We outgrow certain relationships and part company with those who cannot grow ...

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As we awaken from the child’s within nightmare of frozen despair we begin living a free life.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CfTeuSn64o/VS7A4oa1quI/AAAAAAAAR0M/UeayRbk_Sdk/s1600/1-1-The%2BTen%2BStages234-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CfTeuSn64o/VS7A4oa1quI/AAAAAAAAR0M/UeayRbk_Sdk/s320/1-1-The%2BTen%2BStages234-007.jpg" width="207" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As we awaken from the child’s within nightmare of frozen despair we begin living a free life. As we heal the offences of our past we become free to develop our gifts—without fear of inner censorship. Living and working authentically, we discover life’s meaning and make an original contribution to our world through our daily existence. We help others see the way, and we help life evolve further into consciousness. This is our true work.<br /><br />In becoming conscious, we must work to know our story and its implications. We must toil in the fields of past feelings and history. As members of a societal species, we all must face the fact that our past is troubled, filled with brambles, weeds, and disappointment. When we struggle to root out the secrets of our painful history, we free our vitality and our garden grows. Our dreams of artful, purposeful living become a reality.<br /><br />With conscious living, our work shifts from survival and drudgery to vocation. We develop our talents and gifts from the point of view of a life’s mission. We sing, we dance, we write. We become  visionaries. We no longer beg sustenance from life as an indigent child. We strive to contribute to life from the surplus of an awakened adult. Famine is over—the harvest is abundant.<br /><br />As we become more conscious, we view the unconsciousness of others with compassion. It was only yesterday that we were lost in our own nightmare of despair and our work seemed only to keep the wolf from the door and our pain at bay.<br /><br />When we approach life as our awakened child within, our daily life, even a routine chore, transcends its specific form. Now every task expands consciousness—for we are conscious. 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vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/as-you-grow-stronger-our-self-doubt.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854322_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/as-you-grow-stronger-our-self-doubt.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">As you grow stronger our self-doubt will weaken.</a></li> </ul> </div>

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It’s not over. It’s not too late for recovery.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QGkynj2t81Q/VbkDeYn0q7I/AAAAAAAATL0/Zb0airomgzY/s1600/artlimited_img42084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QGkynj2t81Q/VbkDeYn0q7I/AAAAAAAATL0/Zb0airomgzY/s320/artlimited_img42084.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />It’s not over. It’s not too late for recovery.<br /><br /> <br /><br />And what’s to come can be so magnificent, if we can but know that we are guided in every moment and learn to trust that guidance of our intuitive voice. <br /><br /> <br /><br />There is a gap between what we know is possible in our lives and our current life circumstance. <br /><br /> <br /><br />We think it’s a dance between our child within and the Self. <br /><br /> <br /><br />That is to say, our child within and our human adult body.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Our child within is infinite in its possibilities, and yet the body is limited. And the play between these two co-existing realities creates the friction that moves life forward.<br /><br /> <br /><br />We aspire, we aim to recover, to reach a higher level – not because of the success of the money, but rather because – whether we know it or not – we aim to embody our child withins potential here on Earth.<br /><br /> <br /><br />And that potential is nothing short of infinite child within. That potential is the embodiment of our recovery. That potential means we are free. That potential is connected to our Child Within, ourselves and others. That potential knows that we never walk alone and that we are indeed truly limitless.<br /><br /> <br /><br />And yet – at the exact same time, we are limited. We are fragile. We are imperfect, broken at times and not connected. We are not free.<br /><br /> <br /><br />It is the purpose of the ten stages to re-connect to child within. <br /><br /> <br /><br />To do this, we must begin to see the circumstances of our lives with new eyes of our child.<br /><br /> <br /><br />We can choose to see that, even in hardship, we can find out Child Within.<br /><br /> <br /><br />And when we re-connect our child within, we can know that we are not alone.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> loneliness is our child within calling you. And that instead of medicating pain, to face it.<br /><br /> <br /><br />We can find ourselves stuck. And we are stuck because we are not honouring the call of our Child hidden Within. </span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-beginning-of-time-we-were-organised.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340340708_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; 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It’s not over. It’s not too late for recovery.

It’s not over. It’s not too late for recovery. And what’s to come can be so magnificent, if we can but know that we are guided in every m...

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