From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DISTURBANCE occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... disturbance and
frustration.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
2.
... disturbance happens
to be great, we will ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these
points our
emotional disturbance happens to be
great, we will
more
surely keep our
balance,
provided we
remember, and
repeat to
ourselves, a
particular prayer or
phrase that has
appealed to us in our
reading or
meditation.
3.
... disturbance or
indecision, we can pause, ask ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
In all
times of
emotional disturbance or
indecision, we can
pause,
ask for
quiet, and in the
stillness simply say: "
God grant me the
serenity to
accept the
things I cannot
change,
courage to
change the things
I can, and
wisdom to
know
the
difference.
4.
... disturbance, regardless
of who or what we ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We
learned that if we were
seriously disturbed,
our
first need was to
quiet that
disturbance,
regardless of who or what we
thought caused it.
5.
... disturbance was
seemingly caused by the behavior ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
Or, if my
disturbance was
seemingly caused by the
behavior of others, why do I
lack the
ability to
accept conditions I
cannot
change?
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