Recovery Principles 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship comprised of individuals who have admitted they have a drinking problem. Support group meetings are available almost everywhere. Anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem is welcome. Here are the 12-steps to addiction recovery as proposed by the AA.
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable.
- We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- We decided to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- We admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- We 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.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and practice these principles in all our affairs.
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