Thursday, 21 April 2005

HALT
Mood:  lazy
Topic: staying sober
This is a very simple word but to every alcoholic it is a word if followed that can save you from a world of hurt. What does HALT mean. Well each letter stands for an another word; H= Hungry A= Angry L= Lonely T=Tired. As an alcoholic you should never get to hungry,angry,lonely or tried. These are set up points that can send you on a drinking bout..One of the things AA tries to teach us is to recognized when you have come to one of these points and to do something about it or not to get your self in the position in the frist place. It is easy to eat when we are hungry and to sleep when we are tried . We can get a sponsor and keep AA friends and family around us so we are not lonely but anger is one that sometimes we feel we have no control over. Anger is one that we need to use all the tools that AA has to offer. In AA we learn we can not afford any righteous indignation, we can not fight with city hall(or ATT wireless), we must learn to live and let live. We must learn that we can only be responsible for our actions and not take on the actions of others. Easy words to write very different in real life. It is sometime very hard to walk away from a fight or pick up a phone to call and talk to a sponcor in the heat of battle but that is what we must learn to do. So the word for today is HALT

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Updated: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 7:22 PM EDT

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