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Originally Posted by zijax
At certain times there is no effective mental defense against the first drink, the needed power...must come from a higher power.
That's what I'm counting on...
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Here is what we are guaranteed at Step Ten (pages 84-85):
"...we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned.... If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame...react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically...without any thought or effort on our part...in a position of neutrality - safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us... That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition."
Do you need some help getting there?
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Originally Posted by zijax
Today I choose not to drink because tomorrow I'm going to wake up feeling so glad I didn't.
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Sure, your intellect and emotions are currently in agreement. But if that could be true for us all the time, there would be no need for A.A. at all.