Sandy B - AA Speaker - "AA is EXTREMELY Spiritual!"

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2014
  • Sometimes in an AA meeting, or with some speakers, you hear talk of the spiritual "side" of the AA program. Sandy B., in this talk, shares how the ENTIRE program is spiritual and how deep and powerful it is. Overcoming obstacles, great and small, AA makes it possible to live in the world with peace and serenity. We meet our challenges, celebrate our triumphs, and carry the message of hope to the still suffering in AA. The whole thing is a spiritual action! There is no speaker better to cover this topic and Sandy does it in the most eloquent manner I have ever heard!
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Komentáře • 44

  • @freddysteady1547
    @freddysteady1547 Před 2 lety +35

    Remove my low self esteem. My neediness for attention. My obsessive judgmental mind. My need to control situations. My perfectionism. My obsessive victimhood n self pity. These are my defects. Only by telling someone my whole life story. Childhood. Feeling the uselessness of the flaws. Asking God daily to take them away. Because I’m enough. As are YOU.

    • @josieferraris2553
      @josieferraris2553 Před 10 měsíci +1

      prayers you are not so hard upon yourself, just the recognition of pain is growth, never is self pity. our ego forbids a good cry, but are not worth a good cry to ourselves? YES we are worth a good
      fuxxxx cry! so go for it! love you 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

    • @joannamilano3542
      @joannamilano3542 Před 2 měsíci

      ❤wonderful ,each of us is recognizing our character defects,so good you are aware and removing them, too❗

    • @joannamilano3542
      @joannamilano3542 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@josieferraaris2553
      lovely encouraging message🙏🌻

    • @joannamilano3542
      @joannamilano3542 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@josieferraris2553praying for you too from Australia

  • @wullb7930
    @wullb7930 Před rokem +26

    What an amazing human Sandy was. I’ve listened to his shares for most of my 15 years of Sobriety and I keep learning from him to this day. God bless you Sandy RIP ❤️

    • @amandaboyd1198
      @amandaboyd1198 Před 6 měsíci

      I am 😊

    • @joannamilano3542
      @joannamilano3542 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yes indeed❤best wishes to you too. So thankful for the 12step program and allowing God to run my life

  • @markellmessmore440
    @markellmessmore440 Před 8 lety +35

    Sandy was a beautiful person & lived the principals of AA. His knowledge of AA & how he talks of it makes me want to get deeper in our literature. Grateful we have his tapes to listen to. RIP Sandy.

  • @jaidenprew6322
    @jaidenprew6322 Před 4 lety +28

    I listen to this every night and I love it❤️ RIP sandy b you will be forever loved and your words will be cherished

  • @TheGoatRamp
    @TheGoatRamp Před 2 lety +15

    I've been trying to understand all this since 2010 and this got me the closest to understanding...

    • @joannamilano3542
      @joannamilano3542 Před 2 měsíci

      🙏hope you are finding the program the 12 steps really awesome

  • @patricklawrence2207
    @patricklawrence2207 Před 11 měsíci +3

    yes sandy is a brilliant AA member iv been listening to him for about 3 months now and i listen 2 mark h. hes brilliant also. RIP sandy I'm gonna hav a listen 2 u now🦋🙏24.7.2023 god bless dr bob and bill W also 🦋🙏

  • @TheMadstarproduction
    @TheMadstarproduction Před rokem +3

    Priceless

  • @pualikiliumaihetau5081
    @pualikiliumaihetau5081 Před rokem +2

    Enjoyed listening interpretation of the sixth step

  • @teresadiana7666
    @teresadiana7666 Před 7 lety +22

    wow!!!... this is the best thing I've ever listened to.ever.. I'm a little over halfway thru but how amazing, the history and the way this guy tells stories its the best. gave me goosebumps a few times

  • @susanclarke2439
    @susanclarke2439 Před rokem +3

    Very important to absorb this ....

  • @jasonslayton2970
    @jasonslayton2970 Před 5 lety +9

    Wow when he talks about the spirituality of imperfection and paradoxes and ..... wow!! Thank you.

  • @johncrossan8227
    @johncrossan8227 Před 8 lety +15

    Sandy.B is the man. Those who have ears!

  • @jaimecalloway3409
    @jaimecalloway3409 Před 8 lety +9

    lifesaving and inspiring!!!

  • @gjgoyena
    @gjgoyena Před 11 měsíci +3

    57:00 “Coincidences is God working Anonymously”.

  • @bentompkins7854
    @bentompkins7854 Před 6 lety +8

    Those Saturday mornings at the NIH helped me greatly in early sobriety.

  • @melissadonadio3488
    @melissadonadio3488 Před 10 měsíci +1

    9-5-23 When I meet my creator I hope to meet Bill Wilson, Dr Bob and Sandy Beach.....

  • @craigtravisfehr
    @craigtravisfehr Před 6 lety +4

    Thank you

  • @TheWoody296
    @TheWoody296 Před 7 lety +6

    Wow 😲 this is the solution wow 😲 absolutely get this.. Thank you sandy thankyou very much god bless your soul.

  • @notbrendon
    @notbrendon Před 11 měsíci +2

    One of his best ones, without a doubt. Does anyone know what exactly he was doing with the handkerchief at the end?

  • @moondrop362
    @moondrop362 Před rokem +3

    The warning label! So funny, I relate.

  • @eps8th
    @eps8th Před 9 lety +14

    I want to get there like Sandy B

    • @Robert-fv3vn
      @Robert-fv3vn Před 4 lety +2

      You're there.

    • @JaySoul711
      @JaySoul711 Před 2 lety

      @@Robert-fv3vn consciously there? Maybe. But we don’t want to be those long term AA guys who come in and are just “good” - they have no true spiritual connection to their higher power. They seem to rely too much on humans.

  • @TheAxecutioner
    @TheAxecutioner Před 9 lety +4

    Amen !!

  • @robertt5176
    @robertt5176 Před 2 lety +2

    Sandy died at an AA meeting. I heard him speak at Monday Night Speakers group in St Petersburg 2014. Shortly before his death.

  • @gabrielsweeney4331
    @gabrielsweeney4331 Před 7 lety +9

    rip sandy B

    • @scottboatright3880
      @scottboatright3880 Před 7 lety +2

      Gabriel Sweeney He's not dead. He's alive and well as a spirit creature some place else.

  • @jenniferanncattell3672
    @jenniferanncattell3672 Před 8 lety +7

    lOvE ~

  • @Misty_Haze
    @Misty_Haze Před 7 měsíci

    1:22:30. Promises in reverse. Classic!

  • @matthewnry
    @matthewnry Před 3 lety +3

    Wl

  • @glenarledge1825
    @glenarledge1825 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Usually the format is to tell What it was like, what happened and what it’s like now. The what happened is the transformation. This part is rarely done. Just like here. Not enough focus on that aspect. AAs at time appear to want to be entertaining. Notice how he like many skip over that and essentially speak of the “results” of the program. He dosent go in depth on the transformation itself. Nieither do most meetings.

    • @joannamilano3542
      @joannamilano3542 Před 2 měsíci

      To get a sponsor and to go through step 4 including resentments and my character defects and to inventory it each night is ideal for me, I know I want to do it every night, I am starting to do inventory most nights,is helpful,making me aware each evening of character defects and things I need to change. Best wishes. Try another group or online as well. There is a worldwide accessible online, from1770 Agnes Waters in Australia, available 24/7 on zoom,I love this.

    • @neilwalker1078
      @neilwalker1078 Před 3 dny

      Or perhaps this entire pitch is in the transformation. How numerous problems (beyond losing the power of choice in drink) continued to arise and how the speaker must continue to let go of ego, pray for the willingness to have his defects be removed (100%) and live as much of his time in a place where their in a position of neutrality (“floating” as one man said recently). Not disturbed (chewing on a resentment) or trying to take from life. Instead trying to be in ultimate service of others.
      Along with all of the anecdotes that arise out of these continued failures: issues in relationships, loss of work, financial instability, fears, depression, unhappiness.
      Yea, “he’s funny” but I heard a pattern of solution becoming more and more easily tapped into. Isn’t that perhaps in and of itself the journey of “transformation”?