Alcohol

Yoga Mind requires a psychic communication neural network that is :

• fine-tuned, and 

• continually seeks increasing coherence

Alcohol desensitizes the nervous system which is counter to the practice of Yoga.

When we :

• invoke spirits 

• on the path of spirituality 

• we cannot afford to quaff spirits 

• and degrade our spiritual connection to them.

The first few links under Yoga of Consciousness are worth understanding well, for the scientific approach we are taking.

Yoga Mind

In AA practice the employ of God is endemic.

Thus defining "God" is critical - without a particular religion in mind. 

Hence Yoga to the rescue since : 

• it is a platform for spirituality 

• on which any nature of God can be defined 

• and materialized for any culture.

Start with a first-level God for spirituality - later on you can make religious as true Bhakti develops.

first-level God is Ishwara - defined as one who is untouched by :

• klesha - the blockages in the psyche, thus having a clear lens by which we can see our world

• karma - the repercussions of action, thus being skillful in all activity that we undertake.

• vipaka - having to deal with the fruits of action, thus large hearted to share the fruits with humanity - hence spreading the word

The 12-Steps 

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

• sutra 1.0 - now begins the inner self discipline of Yoga

• craft a Yoga story to fit so many luminaries have walked the walk

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

• Ishwara

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

• sutra 1.23 Ishwara-pranidhana

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

• sutra 2.0 

• applies 4,5,6,7 also

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

• ready for Tapa

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

• do the Tapa

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

• sutra 1.33 - not perfect - but interesting

• applies to 8,9

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

• see point 4 above

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

• plenty of yoga tips

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

• share the vipaka fruits

• essentially the Avatar of AA - like the avatar of Jesus or in our case a range of story examples of the Avatar Effect.