The AA Triangle: Unity Service Recovery Mapped to Mind Body Spirit – Earl H.
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Earl H. from Studio City delivers a workshop on the AA triangle — Unity, Service, Recovery — exploring how these three principles map onto mind, body, and spirit. He opens with characteristic rawness: he was a drunken maniac, and sobering him up produced a sober maniac. Either a victim or an assassin, never anything in between. When they told him exercise was good in recovery, he exercised until he had stress fractures in his feet and ripped a muscle from the bone.
Earl breaks down the triangle with practical clarity. Unity is the body — he must be with his fellows. Every person he has known who went out and made it back says the same thing: I stopped going to meetings, I disconnected from the group. Regular meetings regularly is the essential equation. Recovery is the mind — working the Twelve Steps to address the mental obsession, which is the greater aspect of the disease. He is always on a step because he is always alive and engaging in relationships with Higher Power, self, and others. Service is the spirit — being open, willing, and available to other people.
He shares honestly about working with newcomers and how carrying the message takes him back to the basics every time. A new man is not interested in conscious contact with a Higher Power — he wants to know how to get through the next twenty minutes without hurting himself or picking up a drink. Earl describes the spiritual path not as getting anywhere but as being on the path, getting a little closer day by day. The result of doing all three sides of the triangle is a life beyond his wildest dreams. His closing line says it all: I am not a product of my own best thinking.
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