We're curious about: BEYONDFIT
Looking for Accurate Weather Forecasts? Click here.

Idea: addictions free living - the only real product in this untapped niche

Welcome to http:// addictionf .az.com

AZ AZ.COM 2011 ZORGIUM: The owner of the unique content which we abstracted has a web page that our search engine cached here. For your convenience, our search engine enhancement has rendered it script and pop-up free. Proceed from our abstracted version to the owner's website in our frame page when you have determined you have further interest. We've included a hyperlink above in blue that will take you to the original fully formatted article and sources when clicked. We've also included hyperlinks to alternatives below in blue. AZ.COM AZ Zorgium provides endorsement free abstractions.

These following stats are for our tracking and internal use only:
SiteClicks: 56%, SegmentsViewed: 89%, Weight: 75%
ForwardChainedVisitors: 60%, LinkBacks: 68%, VerControl: 1.18

IDEA Alternates: kdwalkerjr alexdigi time4wahm 7organic hleejr ssaffiliat bestplr111 motorprof psychfiles imbasics findmoney newrules33 alexts2010 itfabulous losinglays mikedbes stevebty write4sell
IDEA Favorites: az-plrunleashed-az az-2012howto-az azthebestwaytoexerciseaz az-dhrousha-az az-refortunes-az az-organizemenow-az az-juliemaple-az az-albertst34-az azekcraig66az

Abstract

#Awakened Recoveries - The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Blog RSS
Feed

For over 10-years I have assisted hundreds of alcoholics and addicts
with my book and retreats. Now it's your turn to discover how to...

Experience the Profound Changes
Promised in A.A.'s Literature:

"How I Can Help" (Click Play)
* "Become happily and usefully whole."
* Actually feel different as you "now become able to do, feel, and
believe that which [you] could not do before."
* Finally begin to "react sanely and normally" to your own addiction!

Click here to begin... it's free!

Exploring Your Thinking with Meditation - "So That's What's Going On In My
Mind!"

In the beginning of a meditation practice, we get some pretty big
insights to the nature of the constantly thinking mind.

Four things you may immediately observe:
1. How many thoughts there are
2. How repetitive they are
3. How strong the pull is to take you into the full narrative of the
thought
4. How the pull always takes you away from the present to the past or
future

Read More ...

How to Begin Meditating - Suggested First Meditation Practice

Meditation practice typically begins with some form of concentration
practice to develop focused attention, or "one-pointedness."

For a simple concentration practice, place your awareness on one thing,
such as:
1. Something outside - candle flame, a mandala, a sound, a mantra
2. Something inside - mental image, mental mantra, sensation of breath

And then attempt to keep the awareness on that one thing.

Read More ...

Heard in the Rooms - "Keys Under the Bed..."

"My sponsor told me to put my keys under the bed before going to
sleep, and then in the morning when I'm down on my knees getting
them to say a prayer to God to keep me away from a drink today."

After hearing this story repeated numerous times in meetings, I began
to wonder why I never seemed to hear more detailed stories of prayer in
Step meetings or speaker or discussion meetings. "We shouldn't be shy
on this matter of prayer," the Big Book says - but it seemed that
perhaps we were.

Read More ...

I'm Confused - How am I Supposed to Meditate?

You found your way to the shelf at the bookstore containing books on
meditation. You hadn't thought there would be so many! Picking a few
interesting looking ones, you start thumbing through them and quickly
realize they are not all saying the same thing. In fact, sometimes they
seem to blatantly contradict each other. Now what?

If you continue with the books, you will come to realize that there are
different forms or methods of meditation. The techniques and even the
seeming goals may be different. In sorting through the books and
teachings on meditation, I have found it helpful to get a larger
perspective to provide a context for all the different practices.

All forms of meditation that I have studied seem to fall into three
overall categories, based on what they are doing with thought in the
mind. The forms are not so much inconsistent as they are just
different. They are not lower or higher or better or worse. They are
just different practices that all lead the practitioner from the normal
outward focus of life to an inwardness of awareness.

Read More ...

Visitor Response: "I am powerless over people, places and things."

NOTE: This is a visitor response to Gregg's post, "I am powerless over
people, places and things."

It's true I cannot control people that don't want to change or listen
and that I therefore become powerless over the way they choose to lead
their lives at that moment in time. That it's frustrating and possibly
futile to repeatedly try and change these types. But, at the same time,
small moments or simple comments can instantaneously create radical
change after many years of failed attempts. Suddenly people can see
things differently in moments of clarity, regimes change, institutions
collapse, societies transform under persistent external influences.

Were it not for my sister's long and emotionally torturous campaign to
help me find sobriety I would almost certainly have been abandoned to a
slow homeless death. I was incapable of helping myself, had no
knowledge of AA, or alcoholism, and needed intervention of some sort,
she was undoubtedly the catalyst that forced me to decided to seek
change. A wealthy family gave up on a friend of mine, abandoned him to
his fate, he had a stroke whilst homeless in downtown Los Angeles and
has never recovered his full faculties. There's a fine balance, but
we're certainly not always powerless over people, places and things.

Read More ...

I Can't Meditate! How to Begin Your Eleventh Step Meditation Practice.

You've been wanting to get a solid Eleventh Step prayer and meditation
practice started for some time. You even bought and read the book on
beginning to meditate. So finally, one morning, you assume a
comfortable but erect seat, close your eyes, and begin to focus your
attention on your breath, perhaps even beginning to count the breaths.

And what happens? Complete failure! Within moments, the awareness is
off the breath and your mind is full of thoughts about anything other
than the simple breath. A memory of a conversation yesterday and what
you should have said, or planning a conversation for later today and
what you will say, or making the list of things you need to do today at
work, or the grocery list, or entertaining an old familiar worry or
anxiety .... Perhaps you try again. And then you just give up, get up,
and go on with your day, concluding that you can't meditate.

You have just had your first encounter with what meditation teachers
call the monkey mind or the puppy mind. It's not that your mind just at
that moment started thinking about all sorts of different things. It's
always like that! You just noticed how scattered it is because for the
first time you asked it to focus completely on one thing to the
exclusion of all other thoughts.

So the practice now is to keep bringing the mind back to the breath
each time it wanders off into some thought - like bringing the puppy
back on a leash. As one teacher says, "It doesn't matter if the mind
wanders from the breath a thousand times; what matters is that you come
back to the breath a thousand and one times." That's the practice. It's
that continuing to wake up as the mind wanders, and gently but firmly
bringing the awareness back to the breath that makes up the beginning
of a meditation practice. This is meditation ... you're not failing at
it ... you're doing it!

And each time you wake up and bring the mind back to the breath, you
have the experience of separating yourself from your thoughts. You
might even think of this as the definition of meditation - the
experience of yourself as other than your thoughts. When you wake up,
you interrupt the otherwise ceaseless chatter of the mind seamlessly
moving from one thought to the next. Now, in your practice, there's a
break -- as you bring the mind back to the breath -- where there is,
for the smallest of moments, no thought. Your meditation practice has
begun.
* Logo
Awakened Recoveries Twelve Steps Blog
Home - About Gregg D. - Contact
* Resources

Resources
Ultimate Recovery Course
"Begin a Victorious Assault on Your Addiction Enemy...
Twelve Steps Guide
The Steps, the literature, and the magic of Twelve Step recovery...
*

Popular Articles
+ "I am powerless over people, places and things."
+ Acceptance: An Important Tool in Twelve Step Recovery
+ "My Best Thinking Got Me Here."
+ The Twelve Steps in Twelve Sentences
+ Step Nine - Made Direct Amends to Such People Whenever
Possible

Awakened Recoveries | Sitemap | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |
Disclaimer | Copyright © 2010-2011

End of Abstract

View Full Article

Find other ZORGIUM pages using AZ.COM:

Enter your search keyword(s) into the search input field of http://az.com
The zorgium specific results appear in the right hand margin.

Find other ZORGIUM pages using your favorite search engine:

Enter your search keyword(s) and the keyword "zorgium" into the search input field of http://bing.com, http://yahoo.com or http://google.com.

Heads up: There's an ongoing spamdexing of Google searchbot algorithms. Sites that are 'copies of copies' and cloaked sites which include Zorgium keywords presented to search engine crawlers yet garbage content presented to human visitors were hosted on thousands of IP addresses and domains registered immediately after the introduction of Zorgium in November of 2009. The Hostgator/'The Planet'/Softlayer datacenters in Texas seem to be the epicenter of this activity in conjunction with anonymously registered domains of various TLD's but primarily .info domains at Godaddy which, in our opinion, has some sort of connection to the domains of goldmint.in and goldmint.org. Google has begun to notice this and has begun to lower the ranking of these sites and put our original sites back on top of the search rankings. These actions, as far as we can tell, negatively impact the use of the keyword 'zorgium' as a search term and provided little benefit, if any, to the perpetrators.

ZORGIUM note to content providers: If you don't want your page to appear in Zorgium's search abstraction then put an exclusion for "Zorgium" in your web server's robots.txt file.

DISCLAIMER: Zorgium is a free world-wide-web engine from AZ.COM. You may use it, but by doing so you agree that your use of other people's information discovered via our website is entirely your responsibility. Enjoy!