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Which Comes First -- Anger or Malady?

Does spiritual sickness bring on resentment -- or does resentment cause spiritual dysfunction? The co-authors of the Big Book knew the answer.

A whole chain of events that brings our downfall, begins with one thing: RESENTMENT. Once we allow it to have its way with us, then the only thing we pack into the stream of life is selfishness, self-centered and narcissistic behaviors, stepping on everyone’s toes all along the way as we plummet deeper and deeper into the abyss, spiraling toward our death. It blinds and it binds.

T'ain't pretty. Its especially ugly when we waive Big Books, Inventory Sheets and flash sobriety medallions all the way down the hole.

It is out of resentment that comes every manifestation of spiritual sickness imaginable. Alcoholism included.

Alcoholism inducing spiritual disease does not stem from crappy environments. It doesn’t originate out of “instincts gone wild” or other peoples “instincts gone wild”. It doesn’t arise out of poor upbringing or mistreatment. It isn’t a product of unfortunate genetics.

It stems from resentment. Ours. No one else’s and no ‘thing’ else. There are many offensive elements in the world but it is resentment that is the prime offender.

This is the point that the magnificent spiritual text, story and prayer book, “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism” makes on page 64 in this disarming, chronological order:

“Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.” (64:3)

So often we skimp over this simple sequence and look instead at the off-shooting symptoms and effects of our angers and resentful indulgences in order to avoid looking at the single cause: “Resentment”. That negative, almost electrical charge of destructive energy that we unwittingly invite into our psyches to feed and nurture our unearned sense of esteem and importance. Its the thing that rises up, nourished with hate, and tells our fellows, "You don't know who you are fucking with!" -- and means it.

If we would never get angry we never would judge -- If we would never judge we would never play God --- if we never play God then we would never divorce ourselves from Him -- if we never divorced/separated from Him we would never feel the pain (guilt) of it -- and if we never felt guilt (pain) we would never have to seek relief – if we never sought relief from the pain we would never engage in all of the stupid, conscience numbing behaviors that we use to maintain our imagined God like status of Lord-Judge. How pathetic we are.

We might cry, "If only I could get-well spiritually then I would be less (angry, irritable) resentful.” Not true. Is an easy trap to fall into. It’s backwards of the truth and one-hundred and eighty degrees counter-supportive of the Big Book idea - the one that tells us it is resentment that sets off our troubles.

When we learn how to properly handle resentment first, we then defeat spiritual disease, recover and develop immunity to further relapse back into spiritual sickness.

The moment we justify resentment we allow it to poison us and to block us off from the Sunlight of the Spirit. We lose that immunity. Nip it there, in that moment, and we stay in that Light.

This is where Step Eleven meditation does it's thing. In the "now". There is nothing more required than that. It serves as a tool to help remind us throughout the day to overcome resentment by not allowing it to overcome us.

Peace & Love

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

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Selfishness, Dishonesty, Resentment, and Fear” -- Are We Geting Lost In "Crop" Circles?

They are always sitting on the doorstep. It’s their job! It’s part of the order of the universe. So when exactly do "these" Crop up?

Any ardent Twelve Step practitioner who has gotten intimate with his own Big Book knows that “these” are “selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear” (84:2).

Knowing that these are always ‘when’s and not ‘if’s is a familiar exercise for those of us on this path.

But what about this 'cropping up' part. What’s a “crop up”?

Often it is making the distinction between the when’s and the if’s that raises some questions and worries with protégées. Not understanding the distinction leads many men (and women) that I work with into doubt and despair, even while diligently working their program. That is partially because we often do not understanding just what “crop up” means.

Once we are working Step Eleven, our awareness begins to develop and it grows in leaps and bound.

Sometimes the very awareness of the forces that lie in wait to rip us up can have us before long saying, “What is wrong with me! This shit never goes away!” What am I doing wrong?” 

Maybe nothing.

If I were aligned with the Devil, I would want you to think you were always wrong.

The closer you got to truth, the harder I would try to convince you to stop seeing your faults and errors. I would divert your own progress on the spiritual path into thinking there was something wrong with you for recognizing that there is anything wrong in the world.

I would try to convince you that you were being judgmental and spiritually sick every time you noticed error in others -- even when you were not being malicious.

That would be tantamount to teaching you that God’s guidance and Gods will is vice. I would use trite expressions that mimic spiritual profundity, like, “Every time you point a finger at me, there a three more fingers pointing back at you” in order to deflect and hide my flaws from you. I might even resort to the puerile “I’m rubber your glue” but I would camouflage such childish principles the spiritual sounding theories of the Pantheism - like Karma and “Law(s) of Attraction” and the like.

I would denigrate your own developing humility and I would make you question it. Doubt it. I would accuse you of being lacking. I would tell you that you were egotistical and not worthy of your awareness. I would make you believe that simply seeing “selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear” as these attempts to “crop up” mean that you have already embraced theme and is indicative of your own spiritual illness.

To the extent that I succeeded, you would beat yourself up over it and you would begin to develop means for suppressing your own awareness.

And then you would be lost -- lost in a "crop" circle -- forever blaming our own intuitive gift and God inspiration for our troubles by resenting the very light that shows you truth. 

Just what constitutes a bona fide, Step Ten, Big Book Issue “Crop Up” of the order necessitating a Step Ten procedure - that four-point Step Ten course on page 84 that follows the ‘crop up’?

“When these crop” (84:2) up necessitates an understanding of a “when” actually is. If not, we might be on the phone and meeting for coffee with sponsors and ‘fellows’ and crossing little old ladies across streets like crazed Boy Scouts - around the clock. 

Don’t worry - the confusion is easy enough to see through.

Selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear - always sitting on the doorstep. It’s their job! It’s part of the order of the universe.

These temptations (toward judgment) never leave their stations. They are supposed to be there, just waiting for the opportunity to “crop up” inside our “house” (our 'selves'). Don’t ever think that the slinking, dark predator has gone away -- that you have become so spiritual that they have flown the coop. That's a lie.

Their very existence, that they always remain, is a truth that unless we realize, we may always fall for the trap of emotional reaction having been caught unaware each time they make their presence known to us. An upsetting, irritating realization is enough for them to have their way with us. It will empower them to “crop up”. Again. And again. . . . and . . . . .

A dispassionate, God aligned 'seeing' does not have this effect. Discernment that is contaminated by negativity prevents the "crop up".

That these forces are there and are never not there, obviously something cannot “crop up” if it’s already there. It is a mistake to resent knowing the truth. To fear and to resent fear and resentment is a spiritual irony and one of cruelest tricks of evil.

To struggle against them turns into a self centered “spiritual” enterprise and making excuses for being so self-absorbed is dishonest. What a mess!

“Cropping up” therefore must mean much more than merely being there. It does. It means gaining entrance inside the door. It means “sudden appearance” (1938 definition) It means cropping up inside the house. Not merely standing outside the door.

The consciousness, the seeing that these things await, is not a CROP UP. That awareness is the gift of discernment that exists prior to the “crop up”, before the “suddenly appearing” on our side of the threshold.

For example: Joe sees Frank make a right turn without signaling. Being aware, and having experience (through mediation), he notices the feeling of that ''electrical charge" of annoyance (resentment) beginning presenting itself. He just notices it. He knows what it is. He does not get 'involved' with it. His awareness and experience with objective. dispassionate vision allow this negative force of resentment to pass. He is aware but he is unscathed. It has not engulfed him in anger. In this case resentment has not cropped up. AND unless we are like Joe, we will forever be getting lost in the “crop circles” of errors.

And every time we sense what is sinister hovering outside we are still able to avoid them washing over us with waves of impatience, irritation, and annoyance – but every time we feel any of these energies we will then be compelled to exhibit these traits themselves because . . . . . BAM! . . . . . we have allowed them in . Then it is too late. 

At least we can wait for the next opportunity to get it right, finally.

We have no choice but to objectively see them with dispassionate vision. Not a suppressed vision, but unemotional, unflustered discernment -- seeing these things for the cunning, destructive and deceptive intelligent traps they are and the horror that stands right behind them. It’s the only way they stay out in the cold.

Many of us even [resent the resentment for seeing the resentment.]

It is unnecessary. It is a gift of God’s vision to see resentment – to see fear – to see all forms of temptation when it “crops up”.

So there is no need to be upset with any of these negative forces when the sit waiting to discharge their nefarious purpose. They are merely fulfilling their duties to serve their hellish existence. If we let them – in. Once we resent, fear or deny any of them, then they have succeeded.

The only defense we have from that which would otherwise "crop up" - selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear - is letting God show them to us before they do crop up and and not resent being shown. When they are exposed to us through the dispassionate, natural gift of discernment we can be nonreactive and patient with the people who deliver these terrors to us. That is love. And those ‘hateful’ traits are always overcome by such patience for others.

Failing that we will identify with those horrors and pass them onto others as they have been passed onto us. By exercising our gift of discernment, seeing the forces that wait on our door step for what they are -- forgiving them before they attempt to “crop up” -- is our protection. We will be OK.

So there. This might sound like bad news for some of us protégée addicted guru's – but it comes as good news for the awakened traveler because now you see that we must "discuss them with someone immediately" pertains only to those things that "crop up" - and crop up isn’t every single temptation that comes along.

You haven’t called your sponsor today? That’s might be OK after all – when we are spiritually balanced and objective. Being awake and aware through a Twelve Step friendly meditation will help us with that.

Peace and Love

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

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Trapped Into Other People's "AHA!"s

If ever there were a case to be made for recovered alcoholics to make finding a Step Eleven Meditation that is not tied to any organized spiritual movements, philosophies, gurus teachers or personalities, a number on priory, then it lies in one simple fact:

We do not need anyone else spirituality. We can access spiritually that is personal to ourselves through our own God consciousness and we cannot safely rely on others for it.

Spirituality, the kind spoken of by the ancients doesn't require any 'readings' or the gleaning of wisdom from others philosophies.

(If you knew how hard I am trying at this very moment to not tag this phenomenon as Other Peoples Philosophies 'O.P.P.' -- you would put this article down immediately and go pick up a good Stephen King novel or go watch Dr. Oz)

I know it may seem noble and we can give the appearance of being humble when we say that “we don’t have all the answers ourselves” . It's like "Awh shucks . . . I'm so dumb . . .I must be humble huh? . . . aher aher."

Then it seems there is need to tap the spiritual philosophies of others – but when an ‘other’ isn’t God, but instead is another human being – that is not humility at all. That is placing the precepts of man before God.

We are to be humble in this sense before God – not humble before other men – when we help others with whom we at par, we are really then serving God, not the man.

What seems to be self-‘helpful’ in trying to purloin the spirituality of other folks through self-help movements, gurus and spiritual guides, is really not as beneficial as we hope it will be. There is a paradox in that such ambitious seeking is counterproductive to spiritual growth while we unwittingly build a wall of self-will between us and God.

We turn our lives into a spiritual burlesque show, chasing self-help rainbows as we make mockery of truth. People see the hypocrisy and not getting the reverence we so desperately and undeservedly crave from them we sink lower and lower into resentment and despair.

That is because the hours spent accumulating knowledge about someone else’s “aha’ moments could have been spent living in Gods world, downloading His spirituality (Step Eleven) through our own willingness to do so and doing His will through the knowledge and Power gifted to us.

Your OWN spirituality, you will find as you go on, will be hindered and blocked , displaced entirely by 'teachings' and philosophies found through spiritual books and teachers.

This is the exact opposite of what you had hoped for. Even if they speak ‘truth’ you won’t be able to live that truth from within – and you will find yourself continually outsourcing for your spirituality instead of "in" sourcing it from deep within where God can dwell (If we let Him – yes, there is that God-given power of choice. He only real decision that be made.) Books and teachers of spirituality promise to lead us to it and it seems that they ought to be able to but then they never ever do. Because they can’t . The best spiritual philosophy is no spiritual philosophy – just a blank canvass on which your Creator can draw and write His own plan – and then THAT becomes the philosophy we can call “ours too”.

Let me please make this point: I am a recovered alcoholic. I had a spiritual awakening as the result of the Twelve Steps so magnificently delineated in the magnificent spiritual text, story and prayer book, “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism”. I have been meditating for over thirty years and I can attest - through a life being well-lived that Step Eleven meditation, unencumbered by spiritual theories, philosophies or POP spiritual movements that conflict with the principles discussed in the book – has freed me from the all forms of bondage - even bondage to the Big Book. I am free to use that book as it was intended.

I do not decide to agree with what is book -- what is written in the Big Book agrees with me. It’s all written in there already (Just like Scripture) And that is how I know that it can trusted and safely used as an effective spiritual tool for helping others get to the same place I am. I get zero inspiration out of the Big Book. It wasn't written for that purpose either. There is no need to ‘follow’ what is written in the any book buy appreciation for what is written as it stand as testimony to what is already in our hearts can be a source of tremendous gratitude.

The Big Book co-authors warned its readers to be wary of religious people when they propose that we go to them for some suggestions on reading materials ,

“There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one's priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer.” (87:2)

Some people see this as a blank check for open-mindedness but what it they really find in this snippet of text is a quick justification for naïveté. Within context it is easy to see that this Big Book statement is more of caveat entreating the reader to quickly weight the true for the false when allying with religious folk.

When I read this I come away with, “OK Dan, you got no religion per-se and this is spiritual kindergarten, and you have to start somewhere, and w don’t know what the heck we are doing yet - so go find some rabbis priests or ministers and see what books they might recommend. BUT BE CAREFUL! Don’t get stuck with clerics." and so the tendency is to get my summer-reading list and "Scram, boy!”

Other folks come away with “Hey man, it says here that every spacey stared author with a chant, a puffy shirt and a velvet bag of crystals is cool!”

There are some good priests, rabbis and preachers who know truth and are able to steer us toward it. But any message whether by minster, swami or talking dog - that steers us away from “KNOW THAT I AM GOD” and instead tells us to “Yes, God is God but KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOD TOO” appeals to an inner dark alien nature we know as “ego”.

Feel free to call ‘it’ by its other name too: Pride

For many of us there comes a natural sense of YECH! FEH! whenever we encounter such spirituality counter-intuitive humanism. Maybe even a "Bleh!" too. For others it is a smooth, seductive, “Yes, yes, oh God . . . . tell me more about how Godly I REALLY am!” . . . . Shudder . . . . .

I get all "Blech-feh!" just thinking about it.

And hence we have a plethora of non-Judeo- Christian, POP- spirituality movements (Pantheism) all over the place, on PBS, on The New York Times best sellers list, on poor Oprah’s set – latched onto by an audience of folk who if approached would swear up and down that, “I am NOT God”. Yet in real-time follow disinclines and practice hypnotic meditations and absorb philosophical books that implant suggestions just to the opposite. They don’t even know it is happening and are dumbfounded by their increased levels of restlessness irritability and discontentment leading to health issues and horrendous relationships with loved ones, families and associates and an existence wrought with more and more bedevilments.

The Big Book’s “Page Fifty-Two Syndrome” sets in and life sucks – continues to suck and just gets suckier and suckier as time goes on. And it seems so undeserving – after all, “I am so spiritual.” Some of us even resort to anger with God under such conditions.

When we get 'right' in ourselves with God through conscious contact with Him first, then we get all the guidance, inspiration, direction via intuitive understanding -- without the taint of human 'intervention' - by 'going direct' to our Creator. Do that and you won’t need books and spiritual guides anymore. You don’t need to read my blog, consult with spiritual manuals or guides – our Father will be the Guide without the egotistically handicapped hand of any man to contaminate it. They might need you --- but you won’t need them. And then like me, whether they are right or wrong won’t matter anymore because they will be seen for what they are: irrelevant. You do not want to be a “follower” of anybody my dear friend.

It’s a simpler life too than one constantly struggling to acquire the right spiritual principles through the right spiritual leaders, too because then you don’t have to evaluate them, whether THEY are coming from the right place - is THERE ego in check - are THEY being properly humble - what books to THEY read - who is THEIR guide - where do they get THEIR spiritual info from -- none of this ambitions concern will matter to you because YOU will be coming from the right place and that is all you or I or anyone will ever need to live life as God wills it.

We dont have to pay retail. If we “go direct” to the Manufacturer and skip the all the middlemen then all that complication and decision making goes away and there is a real walk in that Sunlight of the Universe that doesn’t come from someone else’s understanding. It does not get entangled with the alien force of negative energy we think is us, but isn’t. Instead it comes from within, from God. Of course that idea doesn't sit well with flock addicted spiritualists and - nor to their sleeping sheep. There's comfort in their dreams. But who gives a flying crumb?

Peace & Love

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

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The Twelve Step Meditation Dilemma

Are you are a recovered alcoholic? Are you are a devoted practitioner of the spiritually inspired Twelve Step design for living? Me too. That being true then perhaps you have encountered the same dilemma faced by millions of others like you and me, who are as ardent as we are about our kind of life.

Simply stated: As recovered alcoholics, our program – as detailed in “Step Eleven” of the original text of “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism” -- entreats us to meditate. Then, as if some by some purposeful laxity on the part of the co-authors, the same book does not tell us how to do it.

Being the highest ranked "Recovered Alcoholic" on Google's earth has had some practical advantages. It has blessed me with exposure to so many other alkies all over the world. Having spoken with so many others, literally on every continent except for Antarctica, it has become clear that there is a wide consensuses of agreement among us recovered types -- that this is quite a daunting dilemma. Like me these men and women have been perplexed by this ironic glitch of omission and been left with no choice but to search outside of the Twelve Step fellowship in hopes of finding a suitable meditation technique – one that does not conflict with the Twelve Step Principles.

The vast majority of what is readily available stems from religious organization and self-help, PBS, guru-types, virtually all of which bundle their special flavor of spiritual principles into their 'meditation-bait’. Many of these principles are so seriously divergent to the base Principles of the Twelve Step proposals that it is not possible to reconcile the two sets without creating grave conflicts of conscience and generating a spiritual crisis.

Without mentioning specific techniques or religions there is a simple test. Just ask this question of any meditation movement that has caught your interest, “Does the background ‘story’ to this practice support the idea that we human beings are not God – or does it propose that we accept a new idea -- that in some mysteriously cosmic way, we ARE God?”

This is not to disparage anyone's decision to practice any particular belief. Hell, go become a fraakin' cannibal if that's what floats your boat. But please don't come back from your pilgrimage to Borneo sporting a Big Book under your arm and your sponsor's earlobe dangling from your mouth. What I do wish to disabuse you of are that some ideas can b combined successfully -- two or several - each containing conflicting spiritual philosophies that are so diametrically opposed to each other that they cannot coexist and in fact, cancel each other out. It can't be pulled off. You will self destruct trying. Many have.

All pantheistic spiritual movements and religions, such as those we Twelve Steppers typically encounter in our shopping quest for improving conscious contact with God, that provide their believers with something they call ‘meditation”, tend to propose the latter. They convey the idea that we have not separated from God – that our pains and our troubles a not due to such severance from Him -- but that instead our troubles stem from our failure to realize that we are Him.

In this way, although very appealing to the ego,Pantheism proposes the opposite of the Twelve Step principles. The Step principles are based on the idea that God dwells inside us – we only have to find Him there – NOT that we ARE Him. (The landlord or owner of the house isn’t himself the house. ) The two ideas are not reconcilable.

This is no harmless semantic point. It is a major clash of opposing spiritual ideas that comes with dire consequences as it flies hard into the faces of us unsuspecting and frankly, oftentimes gullible seekers.

The resulting friction that comes with attempting to square what is inherently irreconcilable results in a spiritual backsliding, oftentimes a secret abandonment of Principles (sometimes not so secret) and with that the return of un-manageability. There is a resurgence of absurd behaviors and attitudes that are familiar to most alcoholics and families of alcoholics. They know them as a sort of "Page 52 Syndrome" and the return of RID. (If you are not a Big Book Thumper, then just say, “I feel like shit”) Depression and anxiety driven multiple fourth steps are common among folks who find themselves accepting such anti-Judeo-Christian religious teachings. AA's 12 steps is a Judeo/Christian based set of spiritual principles - like it or not. That is just the way it developed.

The likelihood of relapse into drinking becomes a horrifying reality. We may be sober and living a spiritual life, but our growth flat-lines and problems that are astonishingly difficult to solve begin to reemerge.

We slowly begin to re-root ourselves into the stream-of-life with reconstituted sets of selfish, self-centered behaviors, even at times suppressing our irritability so as to retain our AA "spiritual guy" facade. This will eventually fail as we begin to feel as miserable as we ever had– perhaps even worse than we had felt before we had stopped drinking.

This is not a minor problem.

I implore you: Seek to adopt an effective Twelve Step “friendly” meditation. I have discovered a technique unlike any you have ever encountered that will not clash with the fundamental spiritual Principles laid into the foundation of your Twelve Step recovery. I make it available through internet download, stream or CD to anyone. There is no charge and no obligation. Through it you can access a very special spiritual skill, unlike any you have ever seen before, that will enliven your experience while still practicing the Principles you so cherish; thereby resolving your Step Eleven dilemma.

Perhaps you have already adopted one of these meditations, the kind of which I write. If it works as well as what I propose, no problem. Keep up the good work (please stop calling it 'Twelve Step' though') and I hope you have a wonderful life, you undoubtedly will.

But is that the case? Are you getting upset a little too easily? Are you still reliant upon nicotine use or concerned about health issues like self induced diabetes or arthritis? Does it make sense to you that someone on a spiritual path as long as you should still be plagued with failed romantic and marital relationships? Has your original "sex ideals" exercise fallen by the wayside? Are you still blaming ‘circumstances’ for such troubles and writing other difficulties off as “life on life’s terms”? Or perhaps even blaming God. The “Sometimes he says no” excuse for unanswered prayers is probably one of your favorites then.

Do secret angers gestate inside and find yourself suppressing a million little irritations in the morning while you put on your happy FOB face for the night? Still have a porn problem gentlemen? Does the fact that you seem to need to masturbate like you are still seventeen seem a little odd to you at your age – or have you convinced yourself that your ‘horniness’ represents some virtuous sign of virility?

Ladies, are you still impatient with your kids? How about you womanizing, control freak, "Thirteenth stepping" men out there, given therapeutic back massages to vulnerable newcomers with one hand, turning the pages of your Big Book with the other? (It's due to your God-given "instincts", right?)

I don’t mean to be abrasive or vulgar. I am merely trying to make a point. I also realize how sharp that point is. With the exception of Thirteenth Stepping there is nothing in this paragraph with which I have zero experience or exposure. If any of these issue plague you or are of concern, then just how effective are the principles and meditations you have experimenting with?

Now, just so there is no misunderstanding I need to come a little clean here. This article is intended to convince you to try this mediation and I make it available for free. (There will be a free, no catch, link to a download on this site soon)

I am also a professional writer by trade and I can reach others through my work. For pay. Accordingly, I have written book on this subject. And to those readers of my published works I also make it available free.

To make the case as firmly as possible, I have written a book that takes a logical and practical course of presentation.

https://www.amazon.com/author/danny

It clearly illustrates the sequence of events in the life of every single alcoholic that sets the stage for the mental, physical and spiritual dysfunction and the subsequent progression of the terminal malady we call chronic alcoholism. It introduces a revolutionary, ‘cradle to grave’ delineation of events that virtually every real alcoholic reader will instantly recognize as the story of his own life.

It removes much of the mystery behind their own recovery by revealing the human/spiritual dynamics of spontaneous spiritual awakening. These are presented in clear terms that anyone can easily follow.

Once this is done, the vital need for a meditation of this kind - one which does not implant any religious philosophies so antagonistic to those in the Big Book as many alien 'meditations' do, becomes quite clear to the reader. He is compelled to try it, abandoning any other form of meditation he may be practicing or considering.

But you won’t ever have to buy that book if you have found this article, identified with me and would like to try the meditation exercise specifically for alcoholics. The book is intended for those who do not yet see the need to ardently practice Step Eleven in this fashion. Yet.

There will be more works coming too, books and articles addressing each of the other ‘problems’ that I have overcome through this meditation. These include smoking, substance abuse, major depression, anxiety, diabetes, colitis, diverticulitis and clinically diagnosed ADD. I have obtained files containing my comprehensive medical/mental history to document my progress and the subsequent recoveries over the last decade.

This medical history over the last ten years is right now being assembled for public access from my website to substantiate everything I have ever said or written about the physical manifestations that this kind of meditation has on the body and mind. I can’t tell you how great it is to have the doctors scratch their heads in wonderment as they UN-prescribed Lipitor, Adderal, Tricor, and antidepressants like Effexor, Wellbutrin and Lexipro.

I give regular public talks on alcoholism and recovery and have conducted Twelve Step workshops at recovery conferences in major cities like Boston and, New York - and abroad (Denmark) - as well as at Dartmouth College (UMASS). I am comfortable presenting the materials and subjects I write about in a public forum and plan to utilize this affinity in promoting my work, So if you ever see me out there, (Hopefully I will be cheerfully and gratefully signing books at Barnes & Noble’s in your city. Uuh! From my keyboard to God's ears! ) please stop by to say hello.

Peace & Love

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

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