. AA - Recovered - Alcoholics Anonymous - AA100011 FAIR USE: For educational purposes only. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Fair Use Definition Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author’s work under a four-factor balancing test. PLEASE NOTE: ALL NAMES, TRADEMARKS AND IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. These pages are neither endorsed nor approved by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. https://www.aa.org/ * Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” pdf https://www.aa.org/the-big-book * Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” audio https://www.aa.org/resources/media?terms=big+book&format=audio&items_per_page=24&sort_bef_combine=title_ASC STEP 1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - 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 Him. 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 Him 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 Him, praying only for knowledge of His 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 alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. SURRENDER SHARING AMENDS GUIDANCE HONESTY PURITY UNSELFISHNESS LOVE TRUST GOD CLEAN HOUSE HELP OTHERS Alcoholics Anonymous, Chapter 5, How it works, AA, Dr Bob, Bill W, Big Book, 12 Steps, RECOVERED, Powerless, 1st Step Experience, Craving, Desire, Real Alcoho ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYtw2b-7Rg

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/ FAIR USE These pages are neither endorsed nor approved by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. https://www.aa.org/ * Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” pdf https://www.aa.org/the-big-book * Alcoholics Anonymous, “Big Book” audio https://www.aa.org/resources/media?terms=big+book&format=audio&items_per_page=24&sort_bef_combine=title_ASC https://anonpress.org/bb/Page_86.htm AA pages 86-88 On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives. In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it. We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn't work. You can easily see why. If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation. If we belong to a religious denomination which requires a definite morning devotion, we attend to that also. If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing. There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one's priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer. As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ours ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_HpT5z8LBM

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