Meetings

[caressa]

Meetings are important. Last night I went to my NA meeting because I needed an attitude adjustment.

I don't have a desire to drink and drug today, that isn't my problem. My problem is me. Alcohol and drugs, people and food, relationships and work, are all symptoms of my dis-ease within myself.

When I go to meetings, I can identify. I am no longer alone. Isolation is a part of my disease. Relapse is part of my disease, not my recovery. When I go to meetings I can learn to identify the unknown within myself and there I find the solution and apply it to my life one day at a time.

This is a spiritual program. By going to meetings, I take a step toward spiritual connection, getting out of self and helping others.

There is a little bit of God in each of us. When I am open to other ideas and concepts, I can hear the voice of my HP speaking through others to show me a way of living in today without having to use people, places and things.

[Baritone]

Sometimes when listening to someone sharing in a meeting it brings up another thought, idea, or revelation for myself. That's another way my HP speaks through other people, when someone says something i need to hear but indirectly. That relates to a major reason i find meetings are good for me - that i get a chance to let the committee in my head run out of steam so i can actually listen to what's going on around me.