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eminently
emotion
EMOTIONAL   occurs   45 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
emotionalism
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emotions

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1.
... emotional and mental disorders, but many of ...    BB p.58,  How It Works   Go to page 58 in the Big Book
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.

2.
... emotional, and physical.    12&12 p.117,  Step Twelve
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.


3.
... emotional appeal seldom suffices.    BB xxviii(xxvi),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
Frothy emotional appeal seldom suffices.

4.
... emotional balance.    12&12 p.102,  Step Eleven
One of its first fruits is emotional balance.

5.
... emotional balance, and live to good purpose ...    12&12 p.88,  Step Ten
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?

6.
... emotional binges than A.A.'s safe at home ...    12&12 p.38,  Step Three
They had even fewer alcoholic lapses or emotional binges than A.A.'s safe at home did.

7.
... emotional booby traps baited with pride and ...    12&12 p.91,  Step Ten
These are emotional booby traps baited with pride and vengefulness.

8.
... emotional complications -- even your crimes -- we still ...    12&12 p.139,  Tradition Three
No matter who you are, no matter how low you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications -- even your crimes -- we still can't deny you A.A.

9.
... emotional conflicts persist below the level of ...    12&12 p.80,  Step Eight
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.

10.
... emotional deformities are, we can move toward ...    12&12 p.43,  Step Four
By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction.

11.
... emotional dependence upon a parent.    12&12 p.38,  Step Three
No adult man or woman, for example, should be in too much emotional dependence upon a parent.


12.
... emotional displacements and rearrangements.    BB p.27,  There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
They appear to be in the nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements.

13.
... emotional disturbance happens to be great, we ...    12&12 p.103,  Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation.

14.
... emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ...    12&12 p.41,  Step Three
In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

15.
... emotional "dry benders" often led straight to ...    12&12 p.90,  Step Ten
These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle.

16.
... emotional gusts than those A.A.'s bold enough ...    12&12 p.168,  Tradition Eight
No individuals have been more buffeted by such emotional gusts than those A.A.'s bold enough to accept employment with outside agencies dealing with the alcohol problem.

17.
... emotional handicap in either will be likely ...    12&12 p.119,  Step Twelve
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.

18.
... emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's ...    12&12 p.88,  Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.

19.
... emotional harm we have done ourselves has.    12&12 p.79,  Step Eight
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.

20.
... emotional independence is in question, how differently ...    12&12 p.37,  Step Three
But the moment our mental or emotional independence is in question, how differently we behave.

21.
... emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and ...    12&12 p.52,  Step Four
The most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression.

22.
... emotional jag indefinitely.    12&12 p.90,  Step Ten
Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely.

23.
... emotional levels is a fact and not ...    12&12 p.119,  Step Twelve
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.


24.
... emotional natures, we were a prey to ...    BB p.52,  We Agnostics   Go to page 52 in the Big Book
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight?

25.
... emotional, or spiritual damage to people.    12&12 p.80,  Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.

26.
... emotional pain," and we pray for these ...    12&12 p.104,  Step Eleven
We say to ourselves, "This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain," and we pray for these specific things.

27.
... emotional problem can be seen as a ...    12&12 p.42,  Step Four
Nearly every serious emotional problem can be seen as a case of misdirected instinct.


28.
... emotional rearrangement within you.    BB p.27,  There Is A Solution   Go to page 27 in the Big Book
In fact, I have been trying to produce some such emotional rearrangement within you.

29.
... emotional security.    12&12 p.51,  Step Four
Also of importance for most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and emotional security.

30.
... emotional security and financial security -- commence to ...    12&12 p.115,  Step Twelve
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.

31.
... emotional security, and for an important place ...    12&12 p.42,  Step Four
Our desires for sex, for material and emotional security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.

32.
... emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly ...    12&12 p.42,  Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.

33.
... emotional security and peace of mind.    12&12 p.80,  Step Eight
If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of their worldly goods, but of their emotional security and peace of mind.

34.
... emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige ...    12&12 p.114,  Step Twelve
Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.

35.
... emotional security as well as his standing ...    12&12 p.43,  Step Four
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional security as well as his standing in the community.

36.
... emotional security by being dominating or dependent ...    12&12 p.116,  Step Twelve
We were still trying to find emotional security by being dominating or dependent upon others.

37.
... emotional security, for our own way, had ...    12&12 p.115,  Step Twelve
Our demand for emotional security, for our own way, had constantly thrown us into unworkable relations with other people.

38.
... emotional sobriety.    12&12 p.106,  Step Twelve
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.

39.
... emotional stability to be God Himself.    12&12 p.116,  Step Twelve
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself.


40.
... emotional sterility and of having lost the ...    BB p.569(571),  Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and of having lost the faith that moves mountains, without which medicine can do little.

41.
... emotional turmoil before serenity.    12&12 p.94,  Step Ten
How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.

42.
... emotional twists that have so often stemmed ...    12&12 p.117,  Step Twelve
Our main problem is not how we are to stay married; it is how to be more happily married by eliminating the severe emotional twists that have so often stemmed from alcoholism.


43.
... emotional upset.    BB p.134,  The Family Afterward   Go to page 134 in the Big Book
Unless the reason is understood, there may be an emotional upset.

44.
... emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, ...    12&12 p.77,  Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.

45.
... emotional wringer.    12&12 p.99,  Step Eleven
We won't be biased or scared off by that fact, because although he was not an alcoholic he did, like us, go through the emotional wringer.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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