🌅 Sacred Sunday Tapping: Acceptance is the answer

"Nothing—absolutely nothing—happens in God's world by mistake"

Today’s Tapping is a quickie but goodie—a hearty dose of 12-step wisdom to counter whatever personal or collective turbulence the universe is hurling your way.

You grizzled old-timers out there will recognize the words in this week’s audio from Dr. Paul’s famous “acceptance is the answer” share delivered in 1960 at an international AA convention.

I listened to this passage every Thursday evening at the meetings I attended back in the nineties on 86th and Amsterdam in Manhattan.

Given the topsy-turvy state of planetary upheavals, personal breakdowns, spiritual emergencies, dark nights of the soul, Mercury-retrograde calamities, and all the rest of it, I’ve been finding it helpful to put these wise words into a Tapping format to increase the beneficial impact.

And while I can’t offer you a money-back guarantee (especially if you’re a free subscriber), I can say, with great certainty—you will very likely feel better after tapping along.

PS: You don’t need to be a 12-stepper to appreciate the power of these words:

“I finally came to the place where I had to ask myself whether I was willing to do whatever was necessary to stay sober. And I realized something very simple: I cannot say ‘Thy will be done’ and take a pill. If I really mean ‘Thy will be done,’ then I must be willing to experience life on life’s terms—without the chemical help I had been depending on.”

Dr. Paul was a physician and longtime AA member who struggled not only with alcoholism but also with dependence on meds he used to palliate the symptoms of his drinking.

After realizing that he’d been trying to quit booze while still relying on pills, the contradiction finally became clear to him:

If he truly meant to surrender to God’s will, he couldn’t simultaneously medicate himself out of the very feelings that surrender required him to face.

Dr. Paul’s story appears the Fourth Edition of the AA Big Book on p. 407. Without a doubt, legions of recovering addicts around the planet are reading his profound words as you read this sentence.