07 June 2010

THE TWELVE STEPS: A RE-WRITE

  • Step 1 - We declare that we are powerful and that our lives are manageable
  • Step 2 - We understand that we are perfectly sane and do not need to be restored to sanity
  • Step 3 - We know that we have control of our lives and responsibility for our every action
  • Step 4 - We make a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves
  • Step 5 - We declare to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our strengths
  • Step 6 - We realize we are solid in character and that we are amazing
  • Step 7 - We celebrate our strengths
  • Step 8 - We make a list of all persons we had harmed, and asked them for forgiveness as we forgave ourselves
  • Step 9 - We make direct amends to such people and to ourselves
  • Step 10 - We continue to take personal inventory and make frequent affirmations of our self-worth and strength
  • Step 11 - Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with ourselves, affirming our will and power
  • Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, practice these principles in all our affairs
OCH