Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
What are you guys doing to maintain a belief in your higher power and keep a faith in spiritual principles?
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
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I was recently separated from my wife of 33 years and it's complicated. Anyway I rented a room about 15 minutes away and I see my kids about once a week. I see the people who own the house I live in once in a while but other than that I stay in my room where I do my cooking, wash dishes in the shower, read, color, and sleep. I get out at least once a day. I grocery shop and I attend 2 meetings...
I do think there is a "higher power". One that no man knows the name to. This higher power or higher powers, cannot interfere with anything on earth.
Dunno, I tend to think that the relatives that passed on, are looking down on me and watching over me. What do I know?
I was raised Lutheran. I remember bits and pieces of the Bible. Meh.
I do think that things are cyclical. Like the hands that revolve around the face of a clock, like the planets orbiting the sun, like electrons that orbit the proton. I think its a proton? Anyhoo. Or like the change of the seasons.. Cyclical. We will begin again.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to
carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our
affairs.
I had my awakening and I am 100% sure that there is a Higher Power, I can't prove it to others, but I can prove it to myself which is all that matters, to me. Others will have to take that leap of Faith based on the success of myself and others. AA meetings are a great place to hear about the "gifts" that others have received as a result of completing the steps!
When I completed the AA 12 steps, I discovered I had this unique ability to manifest things. I use it alot in my business which is why I am so successful. My success doesn't come from me, it most definitely comes from my Higher Power!
This guy describes it quite well and wrote several books about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIq87qCZppM&t=136s
God Bless
Only you know if you have a problem with alcohol, and if others are trying to persuade you that you do not, it is ok to politely listen, but it can be a burden when others use so much energy to convince you of their beliefs about you. Sometimes people want to be right ALL THE TIME so it might just be that they don't really even care about you more so than them being right to them.
Thanks for the replies though.