From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RESISTANCE occurs
3 times
(
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1.
... resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "
view with
alarm for the
good of
A.A."
meet the most
stubborn resistance or,
worse still,
laughter.
2.
... resistance so
that which is inside him ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now
conceive the
psychiatrist's
job to be
the
task of
breaking down
the
patient's
inner resistance so that which is
inside
him will
flower, as under the
activity of the
A.A. program."
3.
... resistance to
what our friend says.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
It will
help if we can
drop
all
resistance to what our
friend says.
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