TAKING THE TWELVE STEPS

[janbear]

TAKING THE TWELVE STEPS

Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

Usage. http://www.sober.org/UseGuide.html How to use these step guides. Our suggested technique.
Step 0. http://www.sober.org/Step0.html If...you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it-then you are ready to take certain steps. [rev. 3/29/1999]
Step 1. http://www.sober.org/Step1.html We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. [rev. 5/12/1999]
Step 2. http://www.sober.org/Step2.html Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. [rev. 5/15/1997]
Step 3. http://www.sober.org/Step3.html Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. [rev. 5/15/1997]
Step 4. http://www.sober.org/Step4.html Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. [rev. 5/4/1997]
Step 5. http://www.sober.org/Step5.html Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. [rev. 6/21/2000]
Step 6. http://www.sober.org/Step6.html Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. [rev. 6/21/2000]
Step 7 . http://www.sober.org/Step7.html Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. [rev. 11/9/00]
Step 8 . http://www.sober.org/Step8.html Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. [rev. 5/15/1997]
Step 9. http://www.sober.org/Step9.html Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. [rev. 6/21/2000]
Step 10. http://www.sober.org/Step10.html Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. [rev. 6/21/2000]
Step 11. http://www.sober.org/Step11.html 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. [rev. 5/15/1997]
Step 12. http://www.sober.org/Step12.html Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of theses steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. [rev.5/15/1997]
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