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. 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.ġ2. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.ġ1. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.ġ0. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.ĩ. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.Ĩ. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.ħ. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.Ħ. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.ĥ. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.Ĥ. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.ģ. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.Ģ. The heart of the suggested program of personal recovery is contained in Twelve Steps describing the experience of the earliest members of the Society:ġ. program operates when a recovered alcoholic passes along the story of his or her own problem drinking, describes the sobriety he or she has found in A.A., and invites the newcomer to join the informal Fellowship. program seems to be due to the fact that an alcoholic who no longer drinks has an exceptional faculty for “reaching” and helping an uncontrolled drinker. Copyright © Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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