Step # |
Spiral Steps |
12 Steps |
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We admitted that we had a
problem and made the decision to reclaim our lives. FOCUS: HONESTY |
Admitted that we were
powerless over our addictions and that our lives had become unmanageable. |
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We came to believe that
there was hope for healing, health and balance. FOCUS: HOPE |
Believed that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. |
3.
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We now honor our connection
with the divine, as we understand it, and we accept the process of change. FOCUS: COURAGE |
Made the decision to turn
our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood him. |
4.
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We make a searching,
fearless and honest inventory of our behavior and beliefs. FOCUS: INSIGHT |
Made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves. |
5.
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We admit to ourselves and
to another human being what is both healthy and unhealthy in our lives and we
make a daily commitment to heal ourselves in body, mind and spirit. FOCUS: COMPASSION |
Admitted to God, to
ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
6.
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We are willing to seek our
Highest Good and to grow both spiritual and emotionally. FOCUS: INTEGRITY |
We entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects of character. |
7.
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We let go of dysfunctional
thoughts and behaviors and we consciously welcome joy, love and peace into
our lives. FOCUS: FREEDOM |
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings. |
8.
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We make a list of all
beings we have harmed, including ourselves, and we become willing to make
amends to them all. FOCUS: JUSTICE |
Made a list of all persons
we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. |
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We work to restore balance
in our lives. We make direct amends
to others whenever possible and we value and care for ourselves. FOCUS: BALANCE |
Made direct amends to such
people whenever possible, except when to do so would harm them or others. |
10. |
We continue to take
personal inventory and promptly acknowledge both our mistakes and our
achievements whenever they occur. FOCUS: EMOTIONAL AWARENESS |
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. |
11.
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We continue to grow in
compassion, strength and understanding.
We learn to celebrate our lives and our connection to all living
things. FOCUS: SPIRITUAL AWARENESS |
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 and
emotional awakening, we work to help others along the path and we practice
these principles in all our affairs. FOCUS: SERVICE |
Having had a spiritual
awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to
others and to practice these principals in all our affairs. |
13 |
We seek to find our Calling
and to develop the will and the wisdom to follow it. FOCUS: WISDOM |
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Tradition # |
Spiral Traditions |
12 Traditions of AA |
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A spiral Steps Group has
one primary purpose; to provide a safe and supportive place for those who
wish to focus on our own health and healing. FOCUS: PURPOSE |
Our common welfare should
come first; personal recovery depends on AA unity. |
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For our group purpose,
there is but on authority – a Loving Spirit as expressed in our group
conscious. FOCUS: GROUP CONSCIENCE |
For our group purpose there
is but one authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group
conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants; they do not govern. |
3. |
The only requirements for
membership are respect for the ethics embodied in Earth Wise Spirituality and
a sincere desire for health and healing. FOCUS: ACCEPTANCE |
The only requirement for AA
membership is the desire to stop drinking. |
4. |
We affirm that these are
non-cross talk meetings. This means
that we share our experience, strength and hop and that we use “I message”
when we share. It is not necessary
that w agree with each member’s opinion because we “take what we need and
leave the rest”. FOCUS: RESPECT |
Each group should be
autonomous except in matters that affect other groups or AA as a whole. |
5. |
We each pledge to honor our
own boundaries and to respect the boundaries of the other people in this
group. In this way we honor our need
for community and protect our rights as individuals. FOCUS: COMMUNITY |
Each group has but one
primary purpose – to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers. |
6. |
A Spiral Steps Group out
never to let personal, social or political issues divert us from our primary
purpose. FOCUS: TOLERANCE |
An AA group is never to
endorse, finance or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside
enterprise lest problems of money, property or prestige divert us from our
primary purpose. |
7. |
We honestly acknowledge the
problems in our lives in order to grow and heal. At the same time, we keep
our primary focus on the solutions. FOCUS: EMPOWERMENT |
Every AA group out to be
fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. |
8. |
We respect the right of
each member to seek outside sources of healing for their body, mind and
spirit. This includes nutritional
counseling, individual therapy, medical care and the various alternative
forms of healing available to us. FOCUS: HEALING |
Alcoholics Anonymous should
remain forever non-professional but our Service Centers may employ special
workers. |
9. |
Each Spiral Steps Group is
to be fully self-supporting. Group members take turns leading the weekly
meetings. As leaders we act as
trusted servants, we do not govern. FOCUS: ORGANIZATION |
AA, as such, ought never to
be organized but we may create service boards or committees directly
responsible to those they serve. |
10. |
Spiral Steps has no opinion
on other issues, Paths or Traditions.
Hence our group ought never be drawn into public controversy. FOCUS: NEUTRALITY |
Alcoholics Anonymous has no
opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never to be drawn into
public controversy. |
11. |
Anonymity builds the trust
that serves as our group’s foundation. What we hear here, let it stay here. FOCUS: ANONYMITY |
Our public relations policy
is based on attraction rather then promotion, we need always to maintain
personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films. |
12. |
We agree to place
“Principals before Personalities” in all of our dealings with one another. FOCUS: ETHICS |
Anonymity is the foundation
of all of our traditions, ever reminding us to place principals before personalities.
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13. |
We respect the right of
each individual to follow their chosen Spiritual Path; accepting that each
person’s path is the right one for them. FOCUS: WISDOM |
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