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Twelve
Step
The
12 Step Program is used by almost all the drug
and alcohol rehabilitation centres across the
UK. It has a very high success rate in keeping
people free from addiction for good. So many
times I am asked, how do the 12 steps work? What
are the 12 Steps? Can you tell me the 12 traditions.
So I thought the only way to make it clear to
everyone was to produce this website.
These
are the original Twelve Steps as published by
Alcoholics Anonymous:
- 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.
In
some cases, where other twelve-step groups have
adapted the AA steps as guiding principles, they
have been altered to emphasize principles
important to those particular fellowships, to
remove gender-biased or specific religious
language.
Twelve
Traditions
These
are the twelve Traditions as published by
Alcoholics Anonymous:
The
Twelve Traditions accompany the Twelve
Steps. The Traditions provide guidelines for
group governance. They were developed in AA
in order to help resolve conflicts in the
areas of publicity, religion and finances.
Most twelve-step fellowships have adopted
these principles for their structural
governance. The Twelve Traditions of
Alcoholics Anonymous are as follows.
- Our
common welfare should come first;
personal recovery depends upon AA unity.
- For
our group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority—a loving God as He
may express Himself in our group
conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern.
- The
only requirement for AA membership is a
desire to stop drinking.
- Each
group should be autonomous except in
matters affecting other groups or AA as
a whole.
- Each
group has but one primary purpose—to
carry its message to the alcoholic who
still suffers.
- An
AA group ought never endorse, finance,
or lend the AA name to any related
facility or outside enterprise, lest
problems of money, property, and
prestige divert us from our primary
purpose.
- Every
AA group ought to be fully
self-supporting, declining outside
contributions.
- Alcoholics
Anonymous should remain forever
non-professional, but our service
centers may employ special workers.
- AA,
as such, ought never be organized; but
we may create service boards or
committees directly responsible to those
they serve.
- Alcoholics
Anonymous has no opinion on outside
issues; hence the AA name ought never be
drawn into public controversy.
- Our
public relations policy is based on
attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity
at the level of press, radio, and films.
- Anonymity
is the spiritual foundation of all our
traditions, ever reminding us to place
principles before personalities.
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