Can Alcoholics Forgive or Forget?

Forgetfulness of the past is self-centered-in direct conflict with the Judeo-Christian spiritual principles proposed in the Twelve Step program delineated in "Alcoholics Anonymous."

Forgiveness is not forgetfulness.

Even the co-authors of "Alcoholics Anonymous were well aware that simple forgetfulness of the past was not an effective tactic in the course of a true recovery. "We think that such a view is self-centered and in direct conflict with the new way of living," they wrote.

Forgiveness is the ability to become conscious of former ill feelings and harms done us - except 'this time' doing it free from anger.

Knowing we should and knowing how are two very different things.

How do we do stop hating and judging? We do it by getting free from the bondage of ‘Self’ - the thing residing in side us—inside you…right now…perhaps squirming as you read this—which needs to hate and judge through you, and keeps you tied to ‘It’ as you perform It's dirty work. 

Establishing conscious contact with God, called 'awakening' and following it with a lifestyle that includes constantly improving it is how we get and then remain free from that creature we know as "Self". (Secularists call it ego) That is because conscious contact with God is the only thing that separates us from our lower, dark Self. That is when the Sunlight of the Spirit that severs Its hold on us and shrinks "It" down to the pitiful nothing "It" is, where it starves without the negative energy, called resentment, we have been feeding it.

Forgiving is not something we do. Forgiving is how when automatically become, a gift, as we become God conscious-- not 'self conscious' but God conscious.

(Please beware of spurious "meditations" and hypo-conscious techniques that place you into a state of "Self-consciousness" instead of God consciousness. "Self consciousness" mimics "God consciousness" and is an altered state that can seem like mediation, but is really very much the opposite. God Consciousness and “Self consciousness” are two very different things, It is vital that you learn to meditate safely.)[1]

Without God consciousness you can never truly forgive. With it you cannot fail to.

Peace and  Love,

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

Real Meditation for Real Alcoholics

 

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[1] The tip-off in identifying these harmful “meditations” are the use of mantras, music, sound effects, positive affirmations, imagery or recitals. These are seducing, hypnotic techniques, NOT meditation and are extremely harmful and dangerous.