Скачать или смотреть 8. AA 💡Joe and Charlie 📚 Step 4 List of fears Pt 5

Now, I didn’t say you got to quit drinking; I said you’re going to have to do something about your drinking. So the first thing we alcoholics do, to do something about our drinking is, 1) We decide we’re going to control our drinking while drinking . Tonight we’re just going to have two beers, we’re just going to have two drinks. Go to the Liquor Store and buy a half a pint cause nobody can get drunk on half a pint. And I spent 3 or 4 or 5, 6 years trying to control my drinking while drinking. Anybody in here ever try to control your drinking while drinking? Well now I can see why that (controlled drinking) would not work because of the allergy. The more you drink, the higher the craving; the higher the craving the more you want, And after 4 or 5, 6 years of trying to control my drinking while the more you want, the more you drink ... drinking I said to myself one day, ‘Charlie, I don’t believe you can drink anymore’. Took me a long time to realize it. And I said I don’t believe you can drink anymore. So what do we alcoholics do when we finally decide we can’t drink anymore? 2) We trot out the most useful tool we have and we put it right there, and it’s called WILLPOWER. And we say sick him will, we’re through with that drinking, we’ll never take another drink as long as we live. Now believe me, you people that are non-alcoholic, when we say we’re going to quit drinking, that is exactly what we intend to do. You see we are strong-willed people. We can use our willpower to handle all other problems and we assume that we can use willpower here and we really intend to quit drinking. Now as the days went by, I haven’t done anything about my emotions by the way, I’ll just quit drinking, and as the days go by these emotions begin to build up. The fear, the guilt, the remorse, the shame, the worry, the depression, becomes worse and worse. the resulting effect when sobriety is based on willpower It's not the big things in life that kill us, it's the things that all people have to go through on a daily basis in life. It’s getting up every damn morning and going to work, it’s a bitching wife, it's a griping husband, it's screaming kids, it's burnt bacon, it's broken shoestrings, it's flat tires. All the things that everybody has to go through, and these emotions start building up (emotional barometer).