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Old 05-21-2016, 03:01 AM
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The Promises - Alcoholics Anonymous

1. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
3. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
4. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
8. Self-seeking will slip away.
9. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
10. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
Alcoholics Anonymous p83-84
Reprinted from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.

I've shared these as they really help keep me sober, I love the promises and I am now starting to see they do actually work.

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I hope they help someone today x
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I still cry when I read those!

Those are the 9th step promises; the big book if full of promises! And they DO materialize, if we work for them!!
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Thanks for posting this!. #4 is my favorite.
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heres anothers set that i love,too:

And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality - safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.


good on ya for 6 months!
ya never have to do that first 6 months again!
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I'm 6+ years sober and the promises pretty much describe what sobriety is like for me.
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186 is an amazing achievement!
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Old 05-21-2016, 07:26 AM
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I so love them. I like to read them aloud in AA whenever I can. I absorb every single word and breathe them in lol and.... its working!!! It really is working! Number 11 is my fave x
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