Alcholics Anonymous Tips
March 16, 2010 by Admin
Filed under Stop Smoking General, Stop Smoking Tips
Alcoholics Anonymous is a voluntary organization that was conceived back in 1935 to help practicing alcoholics to find sobriety. It was the brainchild of Mr. Bill Wilson, a onetime financier who’s career in Finance was shattered by alcoholism.
While other patients who suffer from acute alcohol poisoning effects attend a hospital, Bill Wilson experienced what he called a spiritual experience and he could heal himself in his new receipt and belief in God.
Once leaving the hospital, he worked together with Dr. Bob Smith, and they performed their cooperative job to help and heal alcoholics. The project was very successful and in 1939, Bill Wilson created a book called Alcoholics Anonymous that started the organization we know today.
At the moment there are more than 106,000 Alcoholics Anonymous meeting groups and the organization has spread around the world. The requirements for joining Alcoholics Anonymous are that only have to be an alcoholic who wants to stop. There is no payment or fee thus the foundation receives its funding from private donations.
The alcoholism treatment concept as a disease was the result of Dr. William Silkworth’s idea, the doctor who has treated Bob Wilson in New York hospital, where here his spiritual experience that put him on the way of creation of Alcoholics Anonymous.
As alcoholic anonymous grew during the late 1930s and early 1940s, it became more structured and the 12 basic principles were developed that are still the backbone of the organization today. The original 12 principles were:
• Admitting alcoholism ruled their lives
• Believing God could cure alcoholism
• Putting themselves in God’s hands
• Honest self evaluation
• Self-confession of wrongs performed
• Preparedness for God to get rid of the bad characteristics
• Requesting that God remove these bad characteristics
• Making list people they had harmed as well as committing to restore wrongs done
• Actually making any amends possible
• Continuous self evaluation and admission of any continuing faults
• Promising to try to recognize God and the plans to recover alcoholics
• Committing to help other practicing alcoholics
It is clear from these original mission statements or principles that Alcoholics Anonymous had a basic grounding in the belief of God; but as the fellowship has grown, over the passage of a number of years, these principles have become more generalized in order not to alienate, or make themselves untenable to alcoholics who desperately needed and wanted help but saw religion as a barrier to acquiring that help.
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