{"id":2950,"date":"2021-08-26T06:01:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterloc.com\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2023-12-23T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T05:40:15","slug":"alcoholics-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterloc.com\/blog\/alcoholics-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcoholics Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alcoholics Anonymous<\/a><\/span> (AA) is the most beautiful concept I may have ever witnessed. Though I never directly experienced it, thanks to some of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Over-the-top_media_service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OTT media services<\/a><\/span> that introduced the program and its deep-rooted meaning to me. Enthralled, I looked up more on the internet about it. And yes! The idea of the program in itself is magnificent, and so is the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It, in my understanding, is one of the best ways of accepting and acknowledging one\u2019s pain, coming to terms with it, and understanding the need for a change and living a better life. These are the initiation steps, which are the most difficult in any journey!<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drinking for fun is way different than being an alcoholic. Alcoholism can become a life-destruction weapon, like any other addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcoholics_Anonymous\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">AA<\/a> <\/span>is a global mutual aid fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. The membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem. It is \u2018nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere.\u2019 The program first started in 1935 in Ohio, United States, when a newly sober Bill Wilson helped alcoholic Dr. Bob Smith to leave alcohol and get it out of his system. The duo then started this association that has benefitted more than 2 million people worldwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The core of AA is its meetings. These are (goes without saying) only for alcoholics, thereby avoiding any \u201cjudgy\u201d eyes. People open up themselves, speak about their problems and any small or big thoughts that they have in their mind. They share freely as they are unfolding in a group wherein everyone is one of them. It starts with (say if it were me), \u201cHi, I am Avani, Alcoholic.\u201d The best part is \u2013 when one speaks, all listen. There is no advice, no suggestions, no recommendations. The counseling is reserved for the sponsee-sponsor association. You may choose anyone from the program as your sponsor, who is like your \u2018go-to person&#8217; for any situation. Usually, a person who\u2019s been a long-time sober in the program becomes a sponsor to someone who is new.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:6px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, the meetings are the most crucial part of the fellowship. People look forward to these shares whenever in doubt or crisis and need an urgent clearing of mind! Then there are AA\u2019s Twelve Steps, a set of program principles that should be practiced as a way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a gist of the Twelve Steps that help you quit alcohol<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acceptance that we are powerless over alcohol and that has made our lives unmanageable.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A greater Power can restore us to sanity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have made a decision to turn around our lives.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have created a fearless moral inventory of ourselves.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Admitted our wrongs to ourselves, to any other human being, and God.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have submitted ourselves to God to remove the defects of our character.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have made a list of people we have harmed in our past.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We will make direct amends to such people wherever possible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Admitting when we are wrong.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prayer and meditation to improve our contact with God.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We carry the spiritual awakenings as a result of these steps to other alcoholics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WoW \u2013 No wonder people have really turned their lives around through these steps.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many other such programs, like Narcotics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous, exist. I guess it wouldn\u2019t harm to have such groups, probably at a small scale, for any other such compelling addictions or habits.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I choose mine as \u2018Impatient Anonymous.\u2019 What\u2019s yours?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avani Raj Arora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the most beautiful concept I may have ever witnessed. Though I never directly experienced it, thanks to some of the OTT media services that introduced the program and its deep-rooted meaning to me. Enthralled, I looked up more on the internet about it. And yes! 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