Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
If the realization that you have turned alcoholic has dawned upon you, there is no need to panic. If you have the desire to get cured of the malaise, you have already made a beginning. Help is at hand, and all you need to do is to reach out for it. The most prudent step would be to attend one of the meetings organized by alcoholics anonymous.
The success of millions of alcoholics in disentangling themselves from the tangles of the addiction is an ample proof that the organization is worth turning to. It is possible to find a unit of alcoholics anonymous meetings at a place near you. To know where it is, you can browse the website and locate your destination. For the uninitiated, an alcoholic anonymous is an international fellowship, founded by individuals struggling to free themselves from the clutches of addiction to liquor. The group organizes meetings in different places all over the world and helps participants identify their problem and its gravity, which is the first step towards freeing themselves from the handicap.
Over the years, the association has developed a method to thwart alcoholism and have devised 12 steps towards freedom from alcohol. Here they are:-
1) Begin with owning up to yourself that alcohol has got the better of you and that it is ruining your life making it go haywire and out of your control
2) But, there is solace in the thought that a superior power can help you get hold on the situation
3) Resolve that you will surrender to God to take care of you and your life
4) Through introspection, know your moral strength
5) Confess to self, to God and fellow human beings the wrong you are doing
6) Invoke divine intervention and surrender to His will to check you
7) Pray to God in humility to remove your vice
Now, enlist all whom you have wronged against and amend by doing a good turn
9) But abstain from them if further contact bodes ill
10) Make no bones all your wrongdoings
11) Through prayer and meditation know the Will of God and how He wants you to get better
12) Poise yourself for spiritual awakening;
practice all prescribed tenets with honesty and pass the good word as far as possible It is not a cakewalk following this method, because before everything you have to make a conscious effort to abstain from alcohol. These suggestions are not the remedy per se, but yes, you could make a perfect start of ending your life’s crisis by giving deep thought to this programme and at least hope to emerge winner. Remind yourself constantly that there is hope and if you garner the will power, you would some day be laughing at your apprehensions.