12/16/2023 0 Comments Malody def![]() ![]() And when I’m stone-cold sober, at my very best, the thought will occur to me to take a drink – or sometimes I think very little about it or not at all, and I come-to out of a blackout after having experienced what page 42 refers to as a “strange mental blank spot.” And of course this vicious cycle of my mind continuously taking me back to a drink and my body dooming me to not drink like “normal” people puts me in a senseless series of sprees and it makes it virtually impossible to stop. When you ask them to describe what they mean by that statement, they seem to have a firm grasp on the fact that we alcoholics suffer from “an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind” – that once I put any alcohol in my system whatsoever it sets off a craving for more alcohol. We often hear people say something like, “I have a three-fold disease: body, mind, and spirit.” Now I’d like to talk about a part of our “disease” which is seldom discussed in meetings nowadays: the “spiritual malady.” We’ve used pages 23 – 43 to help us experience how we’ve been powerless mentally. We’ve discussed, studied, and internalized material from the “Doctor’s Opinion” to page 23 to see how we’re powerless over alcohol bodily. From “The Doctor’s Opinion” to the end of “More About Alcoholism” the Big Book discusses the first part of Step 1, which states, “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol”. ![]()
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