Saturday, October 11, 2008

Break Free From Addiction

using the twelve step program - got this book out of central library, the book has a copy of the alcoholics anonymous program inside. i hope its the same as selina's, ill be bringing the book in Tuesday, just to say from steps 5/6 onwards they start to get rather 'cultage' in how they're worded

Step 1, is “I admitted that I was powerless over my addiction and that my life had become unmanageable.”
Step 2, is “come to believe that a higher power than self could restore me to sanity”
Step 3, is “Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him”
Step 4, is “make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves”
Step 5, is “admit to God, to myself and to another person the exact nature of my wrongs”
Step 6, is “we’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character”
Step 7, is “humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings”
Step 8, is “make a list of all the people we have harmed, and become willing to make amends with them
Step 9, is “make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others”
Step 10, is “continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it”
Step 11, is “sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out
Step 12, is “having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps we try to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs”