Based on our experience, we believe that every addict, including the potential addict, suffers from an incurable disease of body, mind, and spirit. We were in the grip of a hopeless dilemma, the solution of which is SPIRITUAL in nature.
-- Edited by Tahir at 00:21, 2006-10-31
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Addiction is a disease that involves more than the use of drugs. Some of us believe that our disease was present long before the first time we use.
-- Edited by Tahir at 00:21, 2006-10-31
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We "forgot" about the times when we sat alone and were consumed by fear and self-pity. We fell into a pattern of selective thinking. We only remembered the good drug experiences.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We forgot what it was like before we started using; we forgot about social graces. We acquired strange habits and mannerisms. We forgot how to work; we forgot how to play; we forgot how to express ourselves and how to show concern for others. We forgot how to feel.
I identified with this part a lot in my initial days of struggle to stay clean...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We don't have to settle for the limitations of the past. We can examine and re-examine our old ideas. We can certainly improve our old ideas or replace them with new ones.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Our meetings have an atmosphere of empathy. In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype or moralize with each other.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Recovery is what happens in our meetings. Our lives are at stake. We find that by putting recovery first, the program works.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We can no longer blame people, places and things for our addiction. We MUST face OUR problems and OUR feelings.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
The program convinced us that we need to change ourselves, instead of trying to change the people and situations around us.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
dalin wrote: we cannot save our face and our ass at the same time
NOW THAT IS EXACTLY THE CATCH 22 SITUATION THAT I GET ENTANGLED IN, EVERY NOW AND THEN IN MY RECOVERY ~ WHETHER TO HUMBLE MYSELF OR TO BEND TO MY PRIDE, OR IS THERE A WAY TO DO BOTH AT ONCE
THIS QUOTE CLEARLY INDICATES THAT THAT LAST OPTION IS IMPOSSIBLE
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
THE STEPS ARE OUR SOLUTION. THEY ARE OUR SURVIVAL KIT. THEY ARE OUR DEFENSE AGAINST ADDICTION WHICH IS A DEADLY DISEASE. OUR STEPS ARE THE PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE OUR RECOVERY POSSIBLE.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Our inability to control our usage of drugs is a symptom of the disease of addiction. We are powerless not only over drugs, but over addiction as well. We need to admit this fact in order to recover. Addiction is a physical, mental and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
"If we can't control our addiction, how can we control our lives?"BASIC TEXT page 21
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Becoming employed, socially acceptable and reunited with our families does not make our life manageable. Social acceptability does not equal recovery.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We knew in our hearts that drugs had the power to change us into someone we didn't want to be.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
However, none of the steps work by magic. We do not just say the words of the steps. We learn to live them. We see for ourselves that the program has something to offer us.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us. No one is going to decide for us. We can call it the group, the program, or we can call it God. The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring and greater than ourselves.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Many of us understand God to be simply whatever force keeps us clean.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
I wonder what happened here at this thread... Anybody knows?
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Oh, now it seems ok... before half of the posts did not show up when I opened this thread, it just showed only half of them ending abruptly... maybe, some jam on the connection on my comp...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
