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Post by caressa on Jan 9, 2009 7:09:23 GMT -5
12 Steps and the 12 Principles
1. We admitted we were powerless over the effects of addiction — that our lives had become unmanageable.
1. Honesty, acceptance and surrender.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
2. Hope, Trust
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
3. Faith, willingness
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
4. Courage.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
5. Integrity.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
6. Willingness, self-honesty
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
7. Humility.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
8. Justice and brotherly love.
9. Made direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
9. Self-discipline and good judgment.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
10. Perseverance and open mindedness.
11. 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.
11. Awareness.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other codependents, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
12. Love and service.
These very depending on who you are talking to. Many say the only principle for Step One is Honesty, but I am a firm believer in all three as listed here. It says we are to do Step One 100% and in order to do that, we need to find surrender and acceptance to go with the self-honesty.
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Post by caressa on Jan 17, 2009 9:28:17 GMT -5
They say it is principles before personalities and to practice these principles in all our affairs. NA quotes this at the end of their meetings here. A newcomer asked me why it was repeated so often. I said it was probably because it was something people needed to be reminded about. It isn't about not using. It is about using without abusing ourselves and others.
It isn't about drugs and alcohol, it is about living with our fellow man and becoming a better person. A person who is no longer acting out in their disease. A person who has become healthy and learning a new way of living. A person who walks their talk.
I can't go wrong when I practice these principles and apply the Steps to my life on a daily basis. It is about living the program. Not just putting the plug in the jug, not just acting out in my old patterns and behaviors; it is about getting along in the community and being useful and helpful members of society. No more putting others down to make me feel good, no more self-centeredness and disregard for others, no more thinking I am the great I am.
It is about taking an honest look at myself. Hopefully, giving hope to others and sharing my experience and strength too. Letting others be themselves, there is no right way or wrong way to work the program. It is what is good for each individual. It is the God of my understanding and yet I try to keep an open mind and accept you and your God too.
We hear all the time about the Steps. We hear too little about the principles behind them.
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Post by majestyjo on Nov 12, 2016 16:25:47 GMT -5
There is very little talk about the principles of the program. This is a spiritual program. Everyone knows how to drink and have there individual horror stories, but how are you stay clean and sober in today. How are you applying the principles of the program to your life in today? Do you walk your talk? I try to the best of my ability. The closer I am to my God, the better I do.  |
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Post by majestyjo on Mar 30, 2017 22:31:33 GMT -5
Practice these principles in all our affairs. I need to take my program out of the rooms of recovery and apply them to my life at home, at work, and in the community. As my sponsor said to me many years ago, "Do people look at you and see recovery."  |
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Post by majestyjo on Apr 30, 2018 8:50:14 GMT -5
Practising the Principles in all our affairs.
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Post by caressa222 on Mar 6, 2020 16:49:03 GMT -5
Do you just say them or do you live them.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.