1. Trust in a Higher Power
2. Clean House
3. Carry The Message .......that's it folks!
Why anyone would try to complicate this simple program was pretty easy to figure out. Monetary gain. If you look at sites that have to explain something to you that is 100% free to begin with, you will see somewhere they will want your money to tell you like they feel it really is. Don't be tricked. The program has been around for over 75 years, and so far I have never heard of anyone being charged for their ecovery.
If you want what we have to offer just go to a meeting and tell them you need someone to help you... and it will happen if you are willing to watch, listen and follow a few simple guidelines (123) just as above.
Stick around we will be giving you links to the real McCoy where you can get everything and more for absolutely one price... WILLINGNESS. We are here for you.... Keep It Simple it works better that way.
Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
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12 Step Sources - A.A. LanguageA.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob said the basic ideas for the Steps came from their study of the Bible. See Dick B., The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible (http://dickb.com/goodbook.shtml). And the early A.A. program, as summarized by Frank Amos and reported in DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, came primarily from the Christian Endeavor principles and practices of Dr. Bob's youth in Vermont. See Dick B., Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous (http://dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml).
When it came to the writing of the Twelve Steps and publishing the Big Book, the story was quite different. Bill Wilson stated quite accurately that the ideas of Ten of the Twelve Steps came directly from the teachings of Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr. And the facts are quite clear that Bill asked Shoemaker to write the Twelve Steps, and Shoemaker declined in favor of Bill's authorship. See Dick B., New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker and A.A. (http://dickb.com/newlight.shtml). In my New Light book, you will see dozens of statements in Shoemaker's writings that find parallel in the Big Book and particularly the language of the Twelve Steps.
Also, it is quite fair to say that those ideas codified the language, principles, and practices of the Oxford Group of which Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker was an American leader and its most prolific writer. See Dick B., The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous: A Design for Living That Works (http://dickb.com/Oxford.shtml). In other words, Bill first heard the Oxford Group ideas from Ebby Thacher, Rowland Hazard, and later Sam Shoemaker. Then Bill was on an Oxford Group businessman's team and attended Oxford Group meetings led by Shoemaker at Calvary House next door to Sam's church.
If you want to put the picture of Step sources together, I'd suggest my comprehensive A.A. history book Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.'s Spiritual Roots and Successes (http://dickb.com/Turning.shtml) and then go to my book Twelve Steps for You which accurately looks at each step and then at all the sources that contributed to that particular step. See Dick B. Twelve Steps for You (http://dickb.com/12StepsforYou.shtml).
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