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There seems to be two types of people in the world. Upper and Downer. The interesting phenomenon is that the Uppers are surrounded by other Uppers and the Downers are surrounded by other downers. This is a bold example of the Law of Attraction, or the Mirror of Life. Whatever one puts into life, he… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Know if You’re Upper or Downer

Step 1 states: We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable. Everything has a starting place. For an alcoholic who is sick and tired of being sick and tired and wants to get better, it is the 1st Step of this effective process of recovery. The most beautiful… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Effectively Work Step 1

I have been in the remarkable Program of Alcoholics Anonymous for over 45 years, now. I have been honored to have been hosting a successful Zoom AA meeting for over a year and a half now, and counting. Since entering and working my program in AA, I have obtained entirely new thoughts about all of… Continue reading Spirituality and How To Apply New Thoughts

There is a simple, easy, and totally truthful answer to many questions. One such question is What’s in it for me? ONLY EVERYTHING!. No matter what beliefs we have or don’t have, we ARE spiritual beings. We are living in a spiritual universe. This universe is governed by spiritual law. As divine beings, we are… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Know What’s in it For Me

Webster defines inspiration as a divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelation. The action or power of moving the intellect or emotions. Or the act of influencing or suggesting opinions. I have been blessed to have received Divine inspiration from many, varied sources.… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Actually Obtain Divine Inspiration

The most dynamic part of our makeup is our powerful thought process. We THINK ourselves into our problems and FEEL ourselves back into Serenity. Did you ever see a miserable, spiteful newborn who was hung up during its delivery because it was giving the finger to someone and got it snagged in its mother? No,… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Best Utilize Our Powerful Thought Process

“I have been in AA for XX days, weeks, months, years now and life keeps coming at me. How do I handle the frustration that seems to be building? I have not even taken a drink!” In other words, what’s wrong? I believe that probably everyone has feelings of frustration. At least one time or… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Successfully Handle Hard Charging Frustration

Many of us came into the program and were dumbfounded when faced with people we were close to. They didn’t even seem to care about our newfound “stopping drinking again phase” that we were going through. Who cares? It may have hurt a little or a lot. But “don’t they realize what I am going… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Realize the Importance of Knowing Who Cares?

Two simple words , I am. They are very powerful. Say them out loud. “I am.” Now, what do you follow this with? Next may be the most powerful choice you have ever made. Why, you may ask? Because they reveal what you see in your mirror of life. Also what follows because of The… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Unleash the Majesty of Your “I Am”

“You say a lot that life just continues to feel better. How could that be? Do you know how miserable I was when forced to come into this program?” Yes, I do know. Yes, we all do. How? OK, do you think we all came into this program on a winning streak? Just looking for… Continue reading Spirituality and How to make life feel better yet.

Here we go again, the Law of Attraction. What one puts into his Mirror of Life, one gets back exactly as when putting your image into your Mirror in your bathroom. Looking in a bathroom mirror shows this exactly as they are. If you have a wart on the end of your nose and a… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Best Use The Mirror of Life

I have been in a position to see, regularly, many reasons to have gratitude. Zombie meth addicts bitching about the alcoholics. Alcoholics complaining about the addicts. Bi-polar people complaining about the alcoholics and addicts. Alcoholics and addicts saying their only problem was that they were Bi-polar. People truly grateful for a bag lunch. It may… Continue reading Spirituality and How to realize your Gratitude

We have talked before about this being a simple program for complicated folks. The best thing for me is to remember to use Kiss. This is Keep It Simple, Stupid. The sooner I got this, the quicker I obtained Serenity. The problem usually is mixing simple with easy. Google defines simple as “easily understood or… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Properly Use KISS

Step 3 states: Made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Special emphasis is on the last part, ‘as we understood Him.’ Bill W. didn’t rush into God, for the benefit of the ones, such as I, who had come to the program thinking… Continue reading Spirituality and How To Surrender to Your God

We spoke of HALT just recently. But I believe that this amazing program of AA works BECAUSE of its simplicity. NOT IN SPITE OF its simplicity. So why not revisit one of the simplest methods of figuring out what is wrong with us when we start to get out of sorts with ourselves? This slogan… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Best Utilize HALT Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

The ideas for the daily topics for our meetings many times are taken from incidents or ideas or discussions right here at our meetings. Such is today’s topic, Our Powerful Thoughts. The study of Spirituality shows us that our thoughts are the most powerful thing that we possess. Absolutely nothing is done that does not… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Best Use Our Powerful Thoughts

When I came into the Program of AA, I had no religious or spiritual knowledge. I had no real life. My idea of God was a Being in human form sitting on a golden throne “up there somewhere.” He was judging and ordering punishment for transgressions, real or imagined, that I may or may not… Continue reading Spirituality and How To Know That It Affects My Recovery and Life

“I’m too much of a realist to think that I need Spirituality in my life. That it applies to me. I have common sense and who needs anything more?” I do, for one. My common sense, my realistic approach to life, my dependence on myself and my life’s experiences, my knowledge, and on and on,… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Know It Applies to Me

The monthly theme at the Flint Life Enrichment Center recently was The Power of Trust. Just what is trust, anyway? I’m glad you asked! Trust is just another word for Faith which is just another way of saying Belief. How do we get this Trust/Faith/Belief? This is where CBA come into play. We first CONCEIVE… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Get and Keep Serenity

When I first arrived at the program of AA, I didn’t hardly know what hope was. Let alone hearing about Happiness, Joy, and Freedom. Guess I had a “guess I’ll give it a try because I’ve tried everything else” attitude. But to no avail. The only thing that I felt after trying all by myself… Continue reading Happiness, Joy, and Freedom. How To Get and then Keep!

Step 1 states “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.” When I came into AA, I did not know that I was an alcoholic but I did know for certain that something was wrong, very wrong. I was scared because I didn’t know just what it was. I… Continue reading Spirituality and How to know if you are alcoholic

We have talked before about AA being a spiritual not a religious program. We accept the Physical laws, such as Gravity, as real and factual. Spiritual laws are every bit as true and factual but probably new concepts to many of us. Today we are going to talk about the Spiritual Law of Attraction, which… Continue reading Spirituality and How to easily make the Law of Attraction actually work

Step 3 states: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. I don’t remember turning much over to anyone or anything before coming into the AA Program, let alone surrendering to anything either. It just wasn’t done! How could this be an admirable… Continue reading Spirituality and How To Surrender to Win

We have talked a lot lately of the first 3 Steps and how we achieve success with them and why. Today let’s see how continuing on with progress from working this remarkable program fits into our lives. And, just as importantly, should it fit into the rest of our lives? My mission in life, and… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Achieve your mission in AA

Following up on a suggestion from a friend, let’s talk about our sobriety and how it affects our peace of mind. Peace is termed Serenity in the AA Program. “With the whole world in chaos today how can you even think of talking Peace?” “The world is either at war, coming out of a war,… Continue reading Spirituality and How to Get Genuine Peace of Mind

How can I ever get true happiness if I always have to pray and do all those religious things and rituals? How can I ever enjoy snowmobiling,  golfing, motorcycling, eating out, dancing, hanging out with my friends,  etc.? I always drank when I did those things! Who would want to do those things with me… Continue reading Spirituality and How to achieve Heartfelt Happiness

There are several ways that we can best deal with the chaotic world that we live in. For us, not drinking and/or drugging is the just start. Then comes asking for help to shoulder the load from Something more powerful than ourselves. This is how we deal with EVERYTHING outside of ourselves. How and who… Continue reading Spirituality and How to best utilize Surrender

When I first came into this amazing Program of AA, I had zero hope and knew of no way out of my problems. Not only that, but I also did not even know what was wrong. I only knew that I didn’t like the me. I didn’t like what I had become and this led… Continue reading Spirituality and How to repay the blessings that exist since coming to AA

Step 10 states: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. We have talked lately about why we were here in AA and discovered that there was help for us if only we could humbly ask for it. (Step 3) Then we started discussing how to cleanse our minds and… Continue reading Spirituality and How to make it through today happily

Spirituality was built into the AA Program, right from the beginning. Bill’s wife worked in Emmet Fox’ office and Dr. Fox was the Spiritual Advisor for many of the first AAs. His Sermon on the Mount was considered the first Big Book and is still today part of the literature one finds at many AA… Continue reading Spirituality and How to work your program and win every time!