For 70 years the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, has been offering a solution to the sick and suffering both in and out of the rooms of AA. This is ubundantly obvious due to the rise of hundreds of alternative recovery programs utilizing almost per batem the AA program from the Big Book.

AA offers those who care to have iot, a completely new and great way of living, the freedom of the bondage of self and a solution by following a clear cut set of directions for their principals that you can adapt to your life to find this ultimate utopia, at least compared to the mess you’ve made of your life up until this point.

If you’ve been attending AA meetings and still don’t believe in the miracles that I am talking about, then you need to look no further than into the original text written to set forthe the directions of the program.

By reading the first 164 pages of the Big Book, including the roman numerals that include the ‘Doctors Opinion’, you are starting to embark upon a journey that will be assured the best and most excellent journey or your life as an alcoholic.

At the end of reading this, you will need to be taken through the process, the procedure, the ‘work’, of deciding, cleaning, repairing and refining. being lead through this needs to be done by an experienced individual who has been shown the way by likewise others.

Doing this work shouldn’t take you more than a year, any longer and you may be balking. Doing this work can take a month if you have full time availablility. But be careful, you will never be done, its about adopting new behaviors and attitudes, a new way of living, helping others, altruistically, is our way.

Someone to have considered themselves done with the work, simply still doesn’t get it. The old solution for us was to drink, the new solution is to not. The old solution for us was to be selfish, the new solution is to be selfless. The old solution for us was to be self-centered, the new solution for us is to be God-Centered. The old solution for us was to be delusional, the new solution for us is to turn our thinking and our will over to the care and understabnding of God and to remain open to His will for us.

This is a bold new reality for us alcoholics who have constantly made a mess of our lives repeatedly over time, casting dark shadows on ourselves and of all of those we loved or even simply came into contact with. If you were to trust me, chances are I was going to bring you down at some point, with me.

So the solution lays within the first 164 pages of the Big Book, and outline for recovery. You become recovered when you beging to do the work and don’t stop. How much recovery do you need to do in AA, that all depends on how sick you wish to remain?