Alcohol Anonymous , need help understanding?

Question

Im not part of the group but I went to a meeting last week I got some key points but having a hard time relating to a man or woman. as being or has been an alcoholic how dow these subjects relate to you and the meetings?
1.acceptance
2.copping
3. simple program to complicated people
4. emotional rescue

what is 12 steps?

Answer 1

As my feet slap down against the cold wet pavement, and my face drips rain from the storm, an unrelenting need to drink pushes me further. Exact final destination appears unknown , but it's inevitable that the evil inside will again return me to the source of my nightmare. No control, no will of my own, no power had I found that might evict this hell that had infected my body and mind. Self-identity, and all that was once me, had been buried under countless layers of drunkenness, so deep, that any calls for help were merely an echo inside my head.
This living liquid curse, cunning and without conscience, had been absorbed into a body which at one time eagerly welcomed it's unyielding influence. But now, as the onslaught of alcohol turned viciously against the world around me, it was only I being held responsible for it's drunken destruction carried out during my imprisonment.
Those intense fear ridden mornings, when I awoke to find yet another nightmare of alcohol's creation, devilishly constructed from it's own personality the night before. Whether it was the sight of dried blood crusted over both hands, or the unfamiliar surroundings of a place where I shouldn't have been, alcohol knew how to render me frozen with crippling insecurity. Too frightened to reason out a healthy answer as to what was happening to me, a deliberate terror of conscience always reached out and tightly gripped my soul. This devil, disguised and hidden behind my own recently drunken face, knew exactly where I'd run to for help. This was much more then an accident through drink. Alcohol's intent was to survive at all costs, to live and breath it's own existence using me as it's host of choice.
But, now, unaware of this developing transformation, all I wanted to do was calm the terror inside my head. There would be only one place, one exit, one chance to escape into a feeling of normality. Alcohol left nothing to chance, and as it waited patiently for me to return a bottle to my lips, I could almost hear a deep sullen laughter quicken my mobility. I desperately needed to lock myself away into the only security I knew, and to experience that precious freedom, I once again had to ingest my enslaver.
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Answer 2

Listen, answer.yahoo is a fun place to play around and have fun but if you want to understand AA because you have a drinking problem and think that they might be the answer, you need to just show up, listen, read and participate.

I will try to give you some brief tips on these concepts as they are presented in AA:

1. Acceptance. This is a key notion in the program. It basically means that you trust that God is guiding your life and you are in the right place, regardless of what is happening. It is a very advanced notion in the program. Acceptance can be practiced during and after you have worked the 12 Steps but it will seem very alien to you before you have worked the steps. But once you have worked the steps acceptance becomes a way of living. There is a line in the Big Book that reads, "He have stopped fighting everyone and everything..." This is acceptance. It does not mean that you are passive. It just means that you trust God. It is actually a position of great strength.

2. Copping -- no idea. Never heard of this. Even if you meant "coping" it is still not part of the AA program outlined in the first 164 pages of the big book.

3. Simple Program For Complicated People. This is standard AA backslapping. AAs, now that they are sober, can take pride in having lived through hell and they are sober now. They tell new people -- active alcoholics -- to "take it easy" and "take it one day at a time" -- when the stupid active alcoholics cannot understand something this simple, some AAs will say that AA is a simple program for complicated people. This puts the "complicated" newcomer at ease -- he does not wish to do simple things because his life is chaos and he is used to it. Calling him complicated allows him to start at least trying to take it easy and one day at a time.

4. Emotional Rescue. This is again NOTHING that I have ever read or heard in AA. The meeting you attended had people from the Recovery Homes in it. Recovery Homes have their own language. That is not the language of AA.

Try these links: www.aa.org -- you can read the big book for free here.

And here are meetings that have been recorded for you and will play on your iPod: www.xa-speakers.org

Answer 3

The best way I can help you, as I am a recovered Alcoholic, is to get what they call "The Big Book" and the "Alcohol Anonymous Book. I really felt uncomfortable at first. But when I stated to accepting that I was an Alcoholic it seem my eyes, ears, and heart were open to other. Whats great as when newcomer's arrive you can help them as well. It explains alot, life situations, struggles, how to accent yourself, cooping with alcohol addiction, sponsors to help you, getting control of your emotion, etc.. Its very interesting. Yet I still have alot to learn.. The nice thing about its they all have something in common and you can relate to some of their stories. The "old timers" (the ones that have been there faithfully and for a long time are very wise on the subject. One time I said to myself. This is so boring. Then I realized these people are here because they care, they want help, they struggle, the more I got a mindset and determing to learn because I know it was working for them, I gave it my all.Family members can help so much.. But the truly don't understand unless they have walked in your shoes. And the DR. can help with medication yet he is not experience in the field unless he is an Alcoholic.. They try to teach you to be a whole person and help you to do some soul searching. The 12 steps can balace yourself....Its in the "BOOK" Good luck to you and I hope you find peace, joy, etc...................First go to a newcommers. Then go to one that is open, then closed. It help me...

Answer 4

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. 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.

Good luck

Answer 5

good question but I don't go to the meetings, i just don't feel comfortable enough to go so i struggle with my own alcoholism with my friends and doctor

Answer 6

it is a crock...they say EVERYONE is an Alcoholic and that you should believe in God..Story told.

Answer 7

you must be drunk now judging by the looks of this grammar