AA Bedevilments & The 4 Horsemen Of Alcoholism

It simply means we are spiritually blocked off from the Power of God, which enables us to remain sober, happy, joyous, and free. Thankfully, the “spiritual malady” is no longer a “missing piece” of Step One for me. It is a reality of my powerlessness and unmanageability and enables me to see why I so desperately need to seek a Power Greater than myself. Thankfully, the “spiritual malady” is no longer a “missing piece” of Step One for me.

Biblical Roots of Early A.A.’s Twelve Steps

Here are some questions we can ask ourselves to help us build our inventory list in this area. To prepare us to take an honest inventory of ourselves, let’s take a look at two verses. Spirituality is the aspect of recovery spiritual malady that I think most often gets overlooked. Some of us are very comfortable embracing spirituality, but for others, it feels weird or uncomfortable. The practice of Christian Meditation offers a remedy to the spiritual malady.

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When we get sober, we straighten out mentally, spiritually and physically. We learn to handle our problems with a different attitude. Turn back to your list, for it holds the key to your future. You must be prepared to look at itfrom an entirely different angle. You will begin to see that the world and its people reallydominate you.

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• A business which takes noregular inventory usually goes broke.
• In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves.
• Many of us say that we have the right to do whatever we want to our own bodies.
• A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke.
• Sometimes it isremorse and then you are sore at yourself.

If you have been thorough about your personal inventory, you have written down a lot by thistime. You have listed and analyzed your resentments. You have begun to comprehend theirfutility and their fatality. You have commenced to see their terrible destructiveness. You havebegun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even your enemies, for youknow them to be sick people. You have listed the people you have hurt by your conduct, andyou are willing to straighten out the past if you can.

• When we were finished we considered it carefully.
• Same thing with alcohol; some people can have a couple beers, no problem.
• If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
• Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help.
• Get that simple relationshipstraight.

Established on such a footing we became less and less interested in ourselves, our own little plans and designs. More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life. I want to make clear to members that these thoughts are not definitive treatise on the subjects. Just an attempt to stimulate thought or discussion and provide information based on my study and experience.

• Finally, someone explained to me that those things are not the insanity that the Big Book talks about; nor are those things why the alcoholic’s life becomes unmanageable.
• Right now, on this inventory step, all we’re doing is identifying our part in any damaged relationships.
• When we get sober, we straighten out mentally, spiritually and physically.

We avoid retaliation or argument. We wouldn’t treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one. We did exactly the same thing with our lives.