While I could go on forever on the differences between these two ideas, I’ll keep it as simple as possible.
But first, it’s crucial that you understand the difference between a spiritual experience and a religious one. Only once we open the spiritual channels and begin to accept a Higher Power into our lives can we hope to find a solution to our alcoholic condition.Īs overwhelming as I’m sure this all may seem for someone who’s either never had a spiritual connection, or been disconnected for years, I’d like to assure you it’s not as formidable as it may seem. The only solution to a spiritual malady is a spiritual awakening. It is this notion that the fellowship of AA was founded upon, and how millions of recovered alcoholics equate their success in overcoming a seemingly hopeless situation. Without addressing this spiritual malady, we have absolutely no hope for intrinsic change or recovery. This spiritual malady, or spiritual disconnection, is the driving force behind our addiction and self-destructive behaviors. It’s a spiritual, not religious program, that requires us to become open spiritually to outside possibilities other than ourselves and relinquishing control of our lives to this entity or idea. That is the foundation of the 12-Step Program. This spiritual malady has only one known answer: that’s finding and implementing a higher power in our lives. A Higher Power and Our Spiritual Awakening But in our quest to fill this void with any and everything we can think of, we completely miss that the only thing that can actually fulfill us a spiritual connectedness to something greater than ourselves. It is the emptiness we feel on such a deep level that we turn to self-medication in order to alleviate the sadness and despair that go hand in hand with. is describing, essentially is referring to a stark void in our lives that we constantly attempt to fill with outside things such as drugs, alcohol, sex, shopping, or anything we can think to try to feel better. is referring to? If fixing it is what’s standing between us and a sober, happy, healthy, life, then what do we need to do?Ī spiritual malady, in the sense that Bill W. So, what exactly is this spiritual malady Bill W. Without addressing this spiritual malady, there is no hope for recovery from this seemingly hopeless state of being. This spiritual malady is the reason by his or her obsessive and destructive drinking and other negative behaviors.
says that the alcoholic suffers from a spiritual malady. was trying to relay in a far more easily digestible fashion. Old timers and recovering people with more experience can explain in layman’s terms just what the author Bill W. Apart from dissecting the Big Book so as to have a firmer grasp on the 12 Steps and program and in general, it also is designed to help us decipher the intricate language and wording used from a different time period. This is one of the reasons that Big Book study groups have become so popular among recovering alcoholics. When the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous was written and published in 1939, the times and language of those times was incredibly different than modern times. They say we suffer from a spiritual malady, but what does that mean anyway? And even if that is true, how exactly does one address and fix a “spiritual malady”? The Spiritual Malady: Bane of the Alcoholic and Addict The only way we can grow in the program is by understanding our condition on a much deeper level, and that’s by understanding what’s going on within us. But with all these new terms and ideas being thrown around, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and confused whenever we hear these new phrases. In a world of recovery, whether you choose to follow the AA or NA or any other 12-step path, I’m sure you’ve heard the term “spiritual malady” used once or twice in a meeting.
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