Exhilarating Experience: A Meeting In Ohakand's Heart

AA MEETING IN OAKLAND’S HEART Never have I ever been to an AA meeting in my entire life, but I can surely say that it was the most exhilarating experience of my life. I have never been introduced with such matters in my entire academic years, and I’m very pleased that I got the chance to go & visit an AA meeting by my own eyes. I did, however, go with few of my classmates, but in advance, I did make sure if were invited to their facility as a group. We each had our notebook and were individually writing notes on it. As things settled down during the meeting, the leader welcomed everyone, even us with tremendous applause. He asked our names, the reason of coming, and where we came from. After the welcoming, he introduced himself, and openly

As he mentioned, “What would make certain individuals/human beings do such things, as to drinking alcohol, and taking drugs.” I knew that my classmates were just as dazzled as I was when the question was given to us. The leader also underlined the fact that doing such things had consequences to it. He mentioned that he didn’t want to talk with anybody, and hated himself as an individual overall. The AA meeting was held in Oakland on International Blvd, and we went on a Wednesday around 1:30 pm on 11/2/2016. The age limit varied during the meeting. We had all sorts of a group of people. It started from very young as roughly twenty-eight to highest seventy years old. The atmosphere was very illuminating, and jolly. It almost felt like we were at a party, and were having a good time as best friends. That’s how the meeting felt to me; as there were very deep experiences and joyful laughs. We had about 30 people in a large room, and

As mentioned, “people come here faithfully, watch and observe how people behave with each other generously, and after that, you just change as a decent human being.” Some even mentioned how they needed directions in life when they were deliberately taking harmful actions, such as continuous nonstop drinking. There’s an actual message that I also picked up from this meeting and that was that, most of the people in the AA meeting role model was, in fact, God itself. Recovery was made accessible when most of them meditated or prayed during the day. It gave them satisfaction, relief, relaxation, tranquility, sense of well-being and positive mood. As one of the members mentioned, “addictive behavior lead to fear, distrust, what is happening to my life, with fucked up people, but those were learning through perspectives of life.” Rehab literature of the true wisdom of life, gave that certain individual intelligence of inner vision; which, he mentioned that the God granted himself through great literature books. Praying and meditation gave him inner peace, which allowed his conscientious to have full freedom. Health benefits that can result from this meeting is that you have a useful resource to communicate your feelings with members that are already