AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy aa-alive.net)
June 12, 2026
Misdirected Instinct
Nearly every serious emotional problem can be seen as a case of
misdirected instinct. When that happens, our great natural assets,
the instincts, have turned into physical and mental liabilities. Step
Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these
liabilities in each of us have been, and are.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 42
Thought to Ponder . . .
I need to uncover in order to recover.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A C T I O N = Any Change To Improve Our Nature.
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