More Body

 Though the body has to change, practice discipline, before the mind will change, the 12 Steps of AA are all about the mind because the problem is in the mind and not the body.  Nothing about jogging or going to the gym.  That has been tried as a solution to drinking and has proven short.  The body does not crave alcohol, but the mind tells you "one more will be better."  The body wants health.  The mind wants oblivion.  You won't pick up the phone, write out a 4th step, go tell a sponsor the results until the mind is ready.  The mind holds the fear, doubt, and all sorts of stuff.  We blame the body for it.  But the body is the victim of the mind.  Stone sober, my body never said take a drink.  But my mind did.  The body feels, and the mind thinks.  Before that first drink the alcoholic cannot seem to recall in mind the results of that last idea to "have a drink."  The body recalls the feeling from the last time, but the mind is not taking incoming body calls.