ACA Meetings

ACA groups tend to focus on understanding the specific behavior and attitude patterns we develop while growing up.

Attendees working the Steps begin to see more clearly that which is positive and healthy in themselves.

Experience, strength, and hope is shared among attendees.

Each meeting and each meeting group is different. Many will be a good fit for you, some will not. Try a few.

In meetings we: found hope, found out about recovery, learned about awareness, and learned about 're-parenting' ourselves. We practiced expressing hurts and fears and got rid of shame and blame. We learned we could be successfully responsible for the solution to our problems. We let a bit more joy, serenity, and happiness into our lives.

We learned that 'group consciousness' could be a powerful help. We learned new lessons from old experiences. We found effectiveness. We raised our consciousness of reality, awareness, love, acceptance, and more.

We became better livers. 

 

Limitations of Language

Can I misunderstand a word? Misuse it? What is the result of that misunderstanding? What is the result of that misuse.


Is it possible for a man to figure out a reality using a word which refers to that which isn't?


Can words get a woman into a great deal of trouble in the privacy of her own mind?


Calling a given word a symbol for a particular definition helps me to be aware of the limitations of language.


Being aware of the limitations of language helps protect me from building parts of my life around the meaning of a word or sentence which masks or veils my best interpretation of my real life experience,

Your Toe

Around us and among us are Ionians, Choctaw and many others who have been so around us and among us that to great extent we have become them and they us. We can teach ourselves. We can learn from the greatness of ourselves. Let's do it.


There are roads and roads to human wisdom.


Each time you raise a foot you create potential for increasing your power and understanding. Which way will you turn your toe.


Attending to history and experience early and late can put us on a high road to understanding and power.

ACA Twelve Step Service

Supports:
Recovery power,
Membership meetings,
Group conscience,
Group consciousness,
Focus on principles,
Sharing of experience, strength, and hope,
Service according to ability,
Progress less than perfection,
Leaderless governance.

My ongoing interpretation of The Steps keeps me on a good path.

Me Affirmations

~ I am ready and willing to learn to keep the focus on myself right here and right now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to talk more appropriately today.
~ I am ready and willing to trust more appropriately here.
~ My feelings are vitally important to me here.
~ My feelings are fine here.
~ I attend to myself here.
~ I take care of myself now.
~ I am willing to take care of myself a bit better this year.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to talk about what is happening to me right here and right now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to feel a feeling today that I could not feel before.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be highly aware of a feeling of mine right here and right now.
~ I value my experience here.
~ I honor my experience here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to use my experience to my greater benefit here.

Learn From It

If you do not learn from history, there are a limited number of times you can repeat it before you begin to lose. The more you lose the greater your chances of being lost. 

Learn from your history or lose.

Your history is your experience. Experience can be your best teacher.

Our Guide

Experience is our guide. History is the record of our experience.

I Affirm

~ I am ready and willing to learn to be healthy and virtuous for the fun of it here.
~ I can be pleased by a better knowledge of my feelings and emotions here.
~ I am willing to develop a clear answerable question today.
~ Self knowing is good knowing here.
~ I aim to be pleased to be aware of my motive here.
~ I am willing to make observations which will help me answer my question today.
~ I am ready to learn to let myself be motivated by joy and bliss here.
~ I am ready to learn to do it for pleasure and happiness here.
~ I am willing to make my observation in a calm unbiased manner today.
~ I am ready to learn to identify an assumption of mine here.
~ I am willing to clarify my theory today.
~ I am ready to learn to note that I begin with a set of assumptions, beliefs, generalizations here.
~ I am willing to clarify my assumptions, beliefs, and generalizations today.
~ I begin from a base of experience and observations here.
~ I am ready to learn to clarify my assumptions by defining my terms here.

Meditation Related to Thoughtful Talk

Our Our language is natural to us. It activates meaning in each of us. We describe that meaning.

We know that context contributes to meaning. Context is our understanding of our experience. Meaning depends upon our interpretation of our experience. We can talk about context, meaning, experience.

Meaning moving in my mind is influenced by my experience and upon my interpretation of that experience. I am pleased to make some of m experience purposeful. My purposeful experience may include attempts, tries, conscious interpretations. I am othen aware of my doing. I may consider the nature of my doing.

We may tend to experience a "thing" as a kind of unchanging object when we know that it is really a snap-shot of a process in action. We consider how we understand a process.