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Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are not suppose to do. People have said we must not go where liquor is served, we must not have it are homes, we must shun friends who drink, we must avoid movie pictures which show drinking scenes, we must not go into bars, our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses, we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at all. Our experience shows that this not necessarily true.
We meet these conditions every day. An alcoholic who can not meet them, still has a alcoholic mind: there is something the matter his spiritual status.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working with others, pg 100
We meet these conditions every day. An alcoholic who can not meet them, still has a alcoholic mind: there is something the matter his spiritual status.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working with others, pg 100
We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation.
We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutralityâ??safe and protected.
We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.
We are neither cocky nor are we afraid.
That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
"I have a hard time believing the people who say that they never think about alcohol"
I know it is hard to believe but the 10th step promise is real.
I drank for 30+ years. I went out of my way to find imported beers and premium single-malt scotchs and today I can not remember one single alcoholic beverage that tastes as good as A&W root-beer does today.
And the original post - It is nice not to feel blown away by being around alcohol at a friend's house or any visual stimulus. I remember a time when I could not do a lot of things because of the fear of being unable to resist alcohol or alcoholic thinking cropping up.
It is a lot better now, and better gets better!
I am not spiritually perfect by any means - that is not possible - but I am continually working to maintain and grow my spiritual condition.
Also agree with rainbowbubbles post from a while ago - my spiritual condition is the key to my freedom. The step 10 promises have come true for me.
Of course I see people drinking and sometimes notice it. I was at a football game a few months ago and it was very hot and I was thirsty and desperate for a drink. The first beverage I saw was a crate of Bud on ice and for a moment it looked appealing, because it was a cold drink not because it was alcohol. Then I saw the water seller and got a bottle of water. The Bud went completely from my mind within a second.
This cannot be compared in any way with the mental obsession I used to get before I came into recovery. To say that they are the same would be to completely devalue the horror of what it is like to be a practicing alcohol and the freedom of what it is like to be a recovered alcoholic.