Spiritual Healing Nutrition Higher Power Community Involvement Support
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| Support through
(AA, MA, NA) Anonymous Groups
Through interaction of people, which truly is the only way
to express ones feelings, we can attain all socialization needed
to maintain a healthy growing life. When ill mattered things affect
us, the ways we deal with our feelings impact us and our outlook
on life is affected by negative things. Everyone knows it; pain
is a part of life. Now working with the pain is reality. To facilitate
a positive environment is far from impossible. A little guidance
and finding a group to share a particular pain or crisis helps.
Twelve step programs exist solely to share experience, hope, and
strength. Alcoholics Anonymous is a support group that is not
limited to the Twelve Steps but is directed to those whom have
a sincere desire to stop drinking or drugging. The purpose of
a support group is to provide an environment comfortable for everyone
and anyone whom chooses to take the first step towards recovery.
It is a place where people can get things off their chest and
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The Twelve Steps (Alcoholics Anonymous)
1. We admitted we were powerless
over alcohol-- that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God
as we understood him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make
amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
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.
12. 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.
SOURCES:
Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth
Edition
Jeff Jay May. "The
Spiritual Dimension of Healing." Expanded Academic Index.
May 2000. July 12,1003