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Many of us, upon arrival to Narcotics Anonymous heard that the good news is that we get our feelings back. We also heard that the bad news is that we get our feelings back. We asked ourselves, how can both statements be True?

We find that after Achieving Complete and Total Abstinence we were no longer medicating our feelings. Many of us began to feel better. The problem was that we began to feel everything better; including the physical, mental and spiritual withdrawals.

We also began to feel bottled in negative feelings, including the effects, the drug use and its lifestyle had on our Lives. We soon learned that the disease of addiction was also a feeling disease. Many of us used drugs to mask our feelings of self.

We used the drugs to control our feelings; we knew exactly what drugs we wanted to use and amount, thus, "controlling our feelings. The Program of Narcotics Anonymous offers a New Way Of Life. It offers a Spiritually Based Program that when Lived results in positive feelings about us and others.

We don't use the Steps to medicate or numb us. The Steps Helps us trace our feelings and survive our emotions. We also with the Help of our God, Sponsorship and the Fellowship replace hopelessness with Hope.

Practicing the Spiritual Principles of Narcotics Anonymous, we develop new good feelings of ourselves and what we're doing about our Recovery. We find a new Euphoria and know deep down inside that all will be well. Our feelings and emotions can still define our disease even in Recovery.

It's the Practice of the Spiritual Principles and positive actions that can define our Recovery.

In This Moment: We will replace our old drugged induced high with positive feelings as a result of our actions.