Laughter, the Best Recovery Medicine

From Wings of Eagles Recovery Org:

"Then I began to see the miracles that happen only in AA. People who would nearly crawl in the doors, sick and broken, and who in a few weeks of meetings and not drinking one day at a time would get their health back, find a little job and friends who really cared, and then discover a God in their lives. But the most compelling part of AA, the part that made me want to try this sober thing, was the laughter, the pure joy of the laughter that I heard only from sober alcoholics."

c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 333

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For many of us, laughter is something we don’t experience for many years in active drug/alcohol use -- there is not much in our lives that brings a moment of laughter.

When we recover, we begin to face all kinds of emotions that are new to us or forgotten by us and we have to learn how to deal with them in a sober minded manner. Not so hard once we discover God, His word and His precepts.

The easiest emotion is laughter that comes from joy -- the joy of feeling happy again – of seeing humor in situations – only can come when we allow our friends and God into our lives with honesty.

Readers Digest has a column called “laughter the best medicine.”

It is true, laughter is healing, healthy and hope sustaining in our recovery -- pure joy – the joy of God leading your steps in your recovery walk.


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