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Position of Neutrality

PON is a study of the manner of living suggested by the founders of AA which was recorded in the book: Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of how Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism.

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Position of Neutrality: Laying Aside Prejudice and...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/03

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights a powerful promise from the Big Book: the moment we are willing to lay aside our prejudice and express even the smallest willingness to believe in a power greater than ourselves, we begin to see results.“We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a

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Position of Neutrality: Embracing Growth Through a...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/03

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne emphasizes the importance of starting somewhere—anywhere—on our spiritual journey, and continuing to grow in our relationship with a power greater than ourselves.“Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. On one proposition, however, these

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Position of Neutrality: Wrestling with Tough...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/03

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne addresses some of the most challenging questions that often arise when contemplating the existence of a higher power: Why does God allow suffering? Why are there wars, like the one in Ukraine? Why do children starve? Why do people get hurt?“Any time you see a question mark, eyesight without insight

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0:49

Position of Neutrality: Confronting the Dilemma of...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/02

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores a fundamental truth revealed in the Big Book: our dilemma was not a lack of willpower, but a lack of true power—a power greater than ourselves that could guide us to a new way of living.“Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a

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Position of Neutrality: Finding Hope Through the...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/02

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores the powerful distinction made in the Big Book: many of us came to believe in a power greater than ourselves only after confronting the hopelessness and futility of our lives as we had been living them.“We had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it

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0:43

Position of Neutrality: The Urgency of Choosing in...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/02

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights the stark warning from the Big Book: for those seriously struggling with alcoholism, there is no middle-of-the-road solution. The choice is clear: an alcoholic death or a happy, joyous, and free life. There is no in-between.“If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is

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Position of Neutrality: The Appalling Lack of...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/01

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne reflects on what we’ve learned about alcoholism from the Big Book—particularly its cunning, baffling, and powerful nature. But beyond these attributes, alcoholism is marked by an appalling lack of perspective: the inability to recognize that we keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting

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0:52

Position of Neutrality: Discovering the Faith We...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/01

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores the idea that, without realizing it, we’ve been guided by a certain kind of faith throughout our lives. Even when we claimed not to believe in a higher power, or questioned what that power had done for us, there was a faith at work—whether in our own reasoning or in our ability to think and

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Position of Neutrality: The Power of Honest...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/11/01

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne discusses the critical importance of honesty in the recovery process—starting with being truly honest with oneself. Reflecting on his own journey, Wayne shares how it took him 30 years to understand what it meant to be honest with himself, despite being told repeatedly in treatment to “get honest.”“I

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Position of Neutrality: Sweeping Away Prejudice in...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/31

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights a powerful message from the Big Book: while they can’t answer all our questions, they can help clear the ground and encourage us to approach our recovery with honesty and diligence.“We can only clear the ground a bit. We can’t answer all your questions. Sometimes we just don’t know. And

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Position of Neutrality: Discovering the Fundamental...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/31

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores a core concept from the Big Book: that deep down in every man, woman, and child lies the fundamental idea of God. This idea is often obscured by life’s calamities, by pride, or by the worship of other things, but it remains present in some form within all of us.“Where’s the problem center

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Position of Neutrality: The Human Mind’s Struggle...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/31

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne delves into the human mind’s natural aversion to trauma and the tendency to avoid confronting painful memories. He explains how our minds instinctively want to abandon traumatic thoughts entirely, which is why many of us kept returning to substances—unable to bring to consciousness the memory of

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Position of Neutrality: Seeing the Effects of Faith...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/30

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne discusses how the practical individual of today often demands facts and results before accepting any theory. Yet, as the Big Book points out, even in the 20th century, people readily accept theories about electricity—things they can’t see but believe because they see the effects.“We see the effects

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Position of Neutrality: Stop Blaming and Start...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/30

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne reflects on a common experience for many in recovery: walking into a meeting, reading the steps on the wall, thinking you’ve done them, and then finding yourself back in the same destructive patterns.“How often did you walk into the room, read the steps on the wall, do the steps on the wall—so you

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Position of Neutrality: The Miracle of Healing in...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/30

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne reflects on the profound transformation that can only be described as a miracle of healing. He shares his personal experience as someone who was consumed by addiction, using meth every single day no matter the cost—living in his car, repeatedly going through treatment only to relapse again and

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Position of Neutrality: Experiencing Revolutionary...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/29

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne discusses the profound and revolutionary change that occurs when individuals come to believe in a power greater than themselves. The Big Book reveals that by adopting a certain attitude toward this power and performing simple actions, a new sense of power, peace, happiness, and direction begins to

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Position of Neutrality: Embracing the All-Inclusive...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/29

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne delves into the all-inclusive nature of the spiritual path outlined in the Big Book. The process of recovery reveals the solution to those who earnestly seek it, reminding us that God does not make too hard terms with those who search for Him.“To us, the realm of the Spirit is broad, roomy,

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Position of Neutrality: Finding the Power to Solve...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/29

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores the critical question: “But where and how are we to find this power?” The Big Book is designed to guide us to this power, one that is spiritual as well as moral, and that can solve our deepest problems.“How many of you thought that drugs and alcohol were your problem? It creates more

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Position of Neutrality: Choosing Between Spiritual...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/28

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne addresses the struggle faced by atheists and agnostics who find the idea of a spiritual awakening impossible to grasp. Yet, for those who have identified as alcoholics or addicts of the hopeless variety, the choice is stark: continue on a path to disaster or embrace a spiritual solution.“To one who

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Position of Neutrality: The Moment of Surrender in...

Position of Neutrality ·

2024/10/28

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne shares a powerful personal story of surrender—a moment when he called out to God in desperation and was met with unexpected grace. After being pulled over without insurance, registration, or a valid license, Wayne was given a choice: continue down the path of destruction or turn towards

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