Some Thoughts About 12 Step Programs

The next three levels involve letting go, humility and forgiveness or we can say it apologizing and making amends for the wrongs which individual had committed.

From there, the tenth level continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it and the eleventh step 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.

The twelfth level of the 12 step program which is the last step, promises that 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 to spread the word of his success.

This down-to-earth approach describes a path that is meaningful regardless whether your orientation is humanist, secular (non-religious) or spiritual or religious. This 12 step programs are structured so that everyone is working toward the same goal, even though their situations may be very different.

Depending on what type problems are being addressed, and the level of severity, 12 step programs are worked at the individual’s pace, and not something that is given a strict time frame for completion.

Completing the steps is challenging for everyone, and may even seem impossible for some, but once a person seeks recovery and chooses a 12 step program, he or she has made a commitment to rediscover themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

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