Alcoholic anonymous is a companionship society includes women and men

Alcoholic anonymous is a companionship society includes women and men that want to allot their experience, hope and strength to other people. Sharing with persons that can get to the bottom of their common frequent problems and then be an assistance to people that want to get well from alcoholism is thought one of the most essential idea of the members of alcoholic anonymous.
In general, the requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Being self-supporting through their individual assistances, which means they are never going to charge neither cost nor contribution on membership of alcoholic anonymous.
Alcoholic anonymous does not ever ally itself with any institution nor organization, nor any political, denomination, or sect. Neither do they ever wish to engage in controversies, for they neither endorse nor oppose any causes. They have one primary objective and that is to remain sober and be of assistance to other alcoholics in order for them to achieve sobriety.
One of the basic systems of belief of alcholics anonymous is that since they’re all alcoholics, thus they know what the disease feels like and therefore have a really special comprehension of the troubles related with alcoholism.
The members recognize that they’re alcoholics, despite the many years of being sober, because they never found a person can get well from being an alcoholic.
Important is the fact that members of alcoholic anonymous do not say that they will forever swear off drinking, but instead they feel that alcoholism can be handled one day of the week at a time. It’s always just for today, never even going as far as tomorrow, it’s just for today.
Thus, once the physical part of keeping alcohol out of the physical being, the emotional being has to be assisted just as well. In order to facilitate this, the members believe that there are “twelve steps” to reach the state of recovery from alcoholism.
Whenever members of alcoholics anonymous get together, they give suggestions and actions in the form of ideas on the way to go through or adhere the twelve steps.
Alcoholics anonymous meetings happen in over 180 different countries. In their open meetings, which are open to alcoholics and non-alcoholics alike, they relate to each other the manner in which they drank, how they made their discovery of alcoholic anonymous, and thus how helpful that program was for them. Their closed meetings are attended by alcoholics only, so that intense personal problems may be discussed freely among them