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bleukow · bleukow

anybody know where to find the actual NA spiritual principles listed by approved NA literature?

Dave R · Dave R

"No one is forcing us to give up our misery."Basic Text, p. 29=It's funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard labor. In re...

Dave R · Dave R

"I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good..."Basic Text, p. 153=We often hear it said in meetings that we should "stick with the winners." Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work an active progr...

Dave R · Dave R

"This ability to listen is a gift and grows as we grow spiritually. Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift."Basic Text, p. 107=Have you ever watched two small children carry on a conversation? One will be talking about purple dragons while the other carries on about the dis...

Dave R · Dave R

"Relationships can be a terribly painful area."Basic Text, p. 82=Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerable--these are all powerful emotions. But we can't forge...

Dave R · Dave R

"We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]."Basic Text, p. 10=How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we don't know! Because we cannot read minds or know another's motives and desires,...

Dave R · Dave R

"We know that if we pray for Gods will we will receive what is best for us, regardless of what we think."Basic Text, p. 46=By the time we came to NA, our inner voices had become unreliable and self-destructive. Addiction had warped our desires, our interests, our sense of what was best for ourselves. ...

Dave R · Dave R

"Perhaps for the first time, we see a vision of our new life."Basic Text, p. 35=In our addiction, our vision of ourselves was very limited. Each day, we went through the same routine: getting, using, and finding ways and means to get more. And that's all we could reasonably expect for the duration of...

Dave R · Dave R

"We have to keep our recovery first and our priorities in order."Basic Text, p. 82=Before coming to NA, we used many excuses to justify our use of drugs: "He yelled at me." "She said this." "My partner left." "I got fired." We used these same excuses for not seeking help for our drug problem. We had...

caracelles · caracelles

Page 41 of the Guide to Local Service shows the following information in it's sample group meeting format. Leader: Select people before the meeting to read one or more of the following short pieces. These readings can be found in our White Booklet, the Basic Text, IP No. 1, or the group reading cards. a...

John · John

Asking for prayer and help!I have not been interacting on the boards for a good while because of internal and external hardships I am so overwhelmed with and that has reduced my ability to shoot positive energy, inspiration, and hope into the Universe for the benefit of others, when I am so stuck in the...

Mike M · Mike M

MIKEF · MIKEF

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual." (Our Thanksgiving,,Have a blessed and productive day...this day and each day WE are graced with.

Dave R · Dave R

"If [character defects] contributed to our health and happiness, we would not have come to such a state of desperation."Basic Text, p. 35=Getting started on the Sixth and Seventh Steps isn't always easy. We may feel as though we have so much wrong with us that we are totally defective. We might feel...

Dave R · Dave R

"We weren't oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all."Basic Text, p. 89=There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could trade places with someone who owned a nice car o...

Dave R · Dave R

"...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years."Basic Text, p. 88=Many of us attended our first meeting and, not being entirely sure that NA was for us, found much to c...

Dave R · Dave R

"The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence."Basic Text, p. 42=Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...

Dave R · Dave R

"We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass."Basic Text, p. 82=It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. "It will pass," a little voice tells you. "When?" you wonder, as you pace and mu...

Davethewave · Davethewave

Well, in two short months I know of two people killed riding motorcycles. If you own one or know of someone who does please think of moving on, or asking them to sell it. Believe me I know the excitement and passion that motorcyclists have. I use to race MX and have won many events, offroading. Road mach...

Mike M · Mike M

Started another day choosing to stay Clean in Recovery. 13,125 One Day at a Times Clean that's 35 years and 342 days, including 9 leap days, or 35 years, 48 weeks and 6 days. Ho-hum life? No way.

Dave R · Dave R

"When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Someday," we may think,...

MIKEF · MIKEF

Hello Folks! I have heard from the other side of MIP ( AA FORUM) that the owner of this site is suffering pretty badly from COPD...I LIFT HIM UP IN THOUGHT AND PRAYER,,

Dave R · Dave R

"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....

Dave R · Dave R

"It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if al...

Dave R · Dave R

Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations.Basic Text, p. 83=Some of us say, "My disease is talking to me." Others say, "My head won't turn off." Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Let's face it. We suffer from an incurable malad...

Dave R · Dave R

This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery.IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience=Sometimes, we really live the Third Step--and its great! We don't regret the past, we aren't afraid of the future, and were generally pleased with the pre...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our best thinking got us into trouble....Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place.Using helped us tolerate the world we saw.Today, however, we understand that the worlds condition wasn't rea...

Dave R · Dave R

"Our egos, once so large and dominant, now take a back seat because we are in harmony with a loving God. We find that we lead richer, happier, and much fuller lives when we lose self-will."Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction and self-will go hand in hand. The unmanageability that we admitted to in Step On...

gettingstronger · gettingstronger

Greetings all! This is my first time on this site and I am already grateful. It is just nice to have somewhere to call "home" once the meetings are over. I have a question. My homegroup is attempting to introduce keytag explainations into our keytag presentation format. But, we want to do s...

trudgin · trudgin

Interestingly enough... I have started the steps over with a new sponsor. In the step working guide on step 1 in the "Denial" section, there's a question that I am not understanding this time: "Am I comparing a current manifestation of my addiction to the way my life was before I got cl...

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	Principals of NA - (Preview) anybody know where to find the actual NA spiritual principles listed by approved NA literature?	bleukow	2	306	Dec 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT December 11 Misery is optional (Preview) "No one is forcing us to give up our misery."Basic Text, p. 29=It's funny to remember how reluctant we once were to surrender to recovery. We seemed to think we had wonderful, fulfilling lives as using addicts and that giving up our drugs would be worse than serving a life sentence at hard labor. In re...	Dave R	0	371	Dec 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT December 10 Winners (Preview) "I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. I got caught up in NA. I felt good..."Basic Text, p. 153=We often hear it said in meetings that we should "stick with the winners." Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous? Winners are easily identified. They work an active progr...	Dave R	0	250	Dec 10, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT December 9 Listening (Preview) "This ability to listen is a gift and grows as we grow spiritually. Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift."Basic Text, p. 107=Have you ever watched two small children carry on a conversation? One will be talking about purple dragons while the other carries on about the dis...	Dave R	0	261	Dec 9, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT December 6 Romance and recovery (Preview) "Relationships can be a terribly painful area."Basic Text, p. 82=Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerable--these are all powerful emotions. But we can't forge...	Dave R	0	277	Dec 6, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT Those who want to recover (Preview) "We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]."Basic Text, p. 10=How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we don't know! Because we cannot read minds or know another's motives and desires,...	Dave R	0	296	Dec 5, 2016 by Dave R
	JFY December 5 God's will not ours (Preview) "We know that if we pray for Gods will we will receive what is best for us, regardless of what we think."Basic Text, p. 46=By the time we came to NA, our inner voices had become unreliable and self-destructive. Addiction had warped our desires, our interests, our sense of what was best for ourselves. ...	Dave R	0	366	Dec 4, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT December 3 Vision without limits (Preview) "Perhaps for the first time, we see a vision of our new life."Basic Text, p. 35=In our addiction, our vision of ourselves was very limited. Each day, we went through the same routine: getting, using, and finding ways and means to get more. And that's all we could reasonably expect for the duration of...	Dave R	0	314	Dec 3, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT December 2 Recovery: our first priority (Preview) "We have to keep our recovery first and our priorities in order."Basic Text, p. 82=Before coming to NA, we used many excuses to justify our use of drugs: "He yelled at me." "She said this." "My partner left." "I got fired." We used these same excuses for not seeking help for our drug problem. We had...	Dave R	0	293	Dec 2, 2016 by Dave R
	GLS Sample Meeting Format clarification GLS meeting format suggested readings (Preview) Page 41 of the Guide to Local Service shows the following information in it's sample group meeting format. Leader: Select people before the meeting to read one or more of the following short pieces. These readings can be found in our White Booklet, the Basic Text, IP No. 1, or the group reading cards. a...	caracelles	4	474	Dec 2, 2016 by caracelles
	Asking for prayers and help... (Preview) Asking for prayer and help!I have not been interacting on the boards for a good while because of internal and external hardships I am so overwhelmed with and that has reduced my ability to shoot positive energy, inspiration, and hope into the Universe for the benefit of others, when I am so stuck in the...	John	5	426	Dec 1, 2016 by Mike M
	One Day At A Time Clean for 36 years (Preview)	Mike M	3	398	Nov 28, 2016 by Davethewave
	Our THANKSGIVING IS PERPETUAL (Preview) "I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual." (Our Thanksgiving,,Have a blessed and productive day...this day and each day WE are graced with.	MIKEF	0	304	Nov 24, 2016 by MIKEF
	JFT November 21 Letting our defects go (Preview) "If [character defects] contributed to our health and happiness, we would not have come to such a state of desperation."Basic Text, p. 35=Getting started on the Sixth and Seventh Steps isn't always easy. We may feel as though we have so much wrong with us that we are totally defective. We might feel...	Dave R	0	289	Nov 21, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT November 20 Finding fulfillment (Preview) "We weren't oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all."Basic Text, p. 89=There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could trade places with someone who owned a nice car o...	Dave R	0	276	Nov 20, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT November 19 The language of empathy (Preview) "...the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of others who had recovered for many years."Basic Text, p. 88=Many of us attended our first meeting and, not being entirely sure that NA was for us, found much to c...	Dave R	0	312	Nov 19, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT November 18 Self-discovery (Preview) "The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence."Basic Text, p. 42=Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped by our experiences. Some of our experiences have made us better people; others have caused us shame or embarrassment; all of them have inf...	Dave R	0	237	Nov 18, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT November 17 Walking through the pain (Preview) "We never have to use again, no matter how we feel. All feelings will eventually pass."Basic Text, p. 82=It hurts like never before. You get out of bed after a sleepless night, talk to God, and still dont feel any better. "It will pass," a little voice tells you. "When?" you wonder, as you pace and mu...	Dave R	0	259	Nov 17, 2016 by Dave R
	The danger of road bikes (Preview) Well, in two short months I know of two people killed riding motorcycles. If you own one or know of someone who does please think of moving on, or asking them to sell it. Believe me I know the excitement and passion that motorcyclists have. I use to race MX and have won many events, offroading. Road mach...	Davethewave	7	399	Nov 14, 2016 by Davethewave
	Woke up today, decided another day of NA Recovery was in order (Preview) Started another day choosing to stay Clean in Recovery. 13,125 One Day at a Times Clean that's 35 years and 342 days, including 9 leap days, or 35 years, 48 weeks and 6 days. Ho-hum life? No way.	Mike M	5	353	Nov 12, 2016 by BigV
	JFT November 12 Our own story (Preview) "When we honestly tell our own story, someone else may identify with us."Basic Text, p. 98=Many of us have heard truly captivating speakers at Narcotics Anonymous conventions. We remember the audience alternating between tears of identification and joyous hilarity. "Someday," we may think,...	Dave R	0	238	Nov 12, 2016 by Dave R
	The owner of this site... (Preview) Hello Folks! I have heard from the other side of MIP ( AA FORUM) that the owner of this site is suffering pretty badly from COPD...I LIFT HIM UP IN THOUGHT AND PRAYER,,	MIKEF	5	359	Nov 11, 2016 by BigV
	JFT November 11 From surrender to acceptance (Preview) "We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26=Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgement of the object of our infatuation....	Dave R	0	297	Nov 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT November 9 The best-laid plans (Preview) "It is our actions that are important. We leave the results to our Higher Power."Basic Text, p. 91=There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if al...	Dave R	0	255	Nov 9, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 22 Look who's talking (Preview) Our disease is so cunning that it can get us into impossible situations.Basic Text, p. 83=Some of us say, "My disease is talking to me." Others say, "My head won't turn off." Still others refer to the committee in my mind or the monkey on my back. Let's face it. We suffer from an incurable malad...	Dave R	0	374	Oct 22, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 21 God's will today (Preview) This decision demands continued acceptance, ever-increasing faith, and a daily commitment to recovery.IP No. 14, One Addicts Experience=Sometimes, we really live the Third Step--and its great! We don't regret the past, we aren't afraid of the future, and were generally pleased with the pre...	Dave R	0	237	Oct 21, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 11 Eyeglasses and attitudes (Preview) "Our best thinking got us into trouble....Recovery is an active change in our ideas and attitudes."Basic Text, p. 55=In active addiction, the world probably looked like a horrible place.Using helped us tolerate the world we saw.Today, however, we understand that the worlds condition wasn't rea...	Dave R	0	259	Oct 11, 2016 by Dave R
	JFT October 3 Losing our ego (Preview) "Our egos, once so large and dominant, now take a back seat because we are in harmony with a loving God. We find that we lead richer, happier, and much fuller lives when we lose self-will."Basic Text, p. 105=Addiction and self-will go hand in hand. The unmanageability that we admitted to in Step On...	Dave R	0	266	Oct 3, 2016 by Dave R
	Keytag Explainations - PLEASE HELP (Preview) Greetings all! This is my first time on this site and I am already grateful. It is just nice to have somewhere to call "home" once the meetings are over. I have a question. My homegroup is attempting to introduce keytag explainations into our keytag presentation format. But, we want to do s...	gettingstronger	8	20112	Oct 1, 2016 by Davethewave
	What's "current manifestation"... (Preview) Interestingly enough... I have started the steps over with a new sponsor. In the step working guide on step 1 in the "Denial" section, there's a question that I am not understanding this time: "Am I comparing a current manifestation of my addiction to the way my life was before I got cl...	trudgin	11	14856	Sep 27, 2016 by Davethewave
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