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03-19-2012, 08:14 PM
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The 12 Promises
Many of us on the forum also have extensive 12 step group experience. Sometimes we will cull from our literature for inspiration. This may not be for everyone, but if it helps, take what you like and leave the rest.
The 12 promises are from pps. 83-84 of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book: If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through . . . We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity. We will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. 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. 
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03-23-2012, 07:42 PM
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Re: The 12 Promises
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At least it gives you an idea how foreign the concepts of the promises and self esteem first appeared to me.
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03-23-2012, 08:58 PM
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Re: The 12 Promises
Many of the AA slogans have helped me unentangle the mess in my head and saved me from further self bashing. The insanity was a pure torture. They helped put me put things in better perspective ... For many years, I have felt trapped and enmeshed with the toxic and unhealthy thoughts of the abusers. Knowing how to detach is a really good recovery process for me.
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03-23-2012, 09:10 PM
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Re: The 12 Promises
Years ago, I started to learn some Russian from a lady. It's not a very easy language to learn ... I was in Ukraine one summer. After sometime, I started to hear Russian sounds in my head. Here's how the language sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Atb9...B8B18AC7121BCF
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03-24-2012, 05:47 AM
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Re: The 12 Promises
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10 pts for catching the punchline. On the slogans, in my early years of recovery, I always moaned and protested, "Boy, I will be glad when the this too shall pass passes".
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