ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
I set out to share this because I knew that someone out there needs to hear about these programs either for themselves or to understand how the program works if someone they love is working the steps.
Here are the 12 steps in the program. There are many programs that use the same 12 steps. They simply substitute their issue instead of the word "alcohol." For instance, the words "food, gambling, drugs, sex addiction" or a myriad of others fit these steps perfectly!
From Wikapedia:
"These are the original twelve steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:[SUP][10][/SUP]
New, in the program, I wondered how these steps worked. I kept expecting to hear a "click!" when I hit the transition from one step to another. Unfortunately, that's not what happens.....it's too easy. On any aspect of my life, I can apply the steps. On fighting the urge to drink, I may be on step 12. On losing my temper today, I may be on step ONE! The steps are a road map for handling issues that trouble us as Human Beings.
I hope that helps and brings some understanding.
Flash
Here are the 12 steps in the program. There are many programs that use the same 12 steps. They simply substitute their issue instead of the word "alcohol." For instance, the words "food, gambling, drugs, sex addiction" or a myriad of others fit these steps perfectly!
From Wikapedia:
"These are the original twelve steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:[SUP][10][/SUP]
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- 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.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- 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 to practice these principles in all our affairs."
New, in the program, I wondered how these steps worked. I kept expecting to hear a "click!" when I hit the transition from one step to another. Unfortunately, that's not what happens.....it's too easy. On any aspect of my life, I can apply the steps. On fighting the urge to drink, I may be on step 12. On losing my temper today, I may be on step ONE! The steps are a road map for handling issues that trouble us as Human Beings.
I hope that helps and brings some understanding.
Flash
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