12 steps program

Alcoholics Anonymous

12 steps Program is the core intellectual and spiritual content of AA fellowship (Alcoholics Anonymous) that outlines the program. These twelve steps are in spiritual fact principles. When these principles are accepted and new routines and behaviors flow out of them; they lead to calm the obsessions relating to drinking and drugging thereby resulting in a happy and useful life.

We admitted that wer are powerless over our addiction and that this addiction has made our life unmanageable.

we have came to believe that a power greater than us can restore us to sanity.

We made a decision to turn our will and our lives to the care of God as we understood him.

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

We admitted to God, to ourselves, to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

We were entirely ready to have God remove all our defects of character.

We humbly request God to remove our short comings.

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and become willing to make ammend to them all.

We made direct ammends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

We 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.

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

12 Steps Programs

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its 12 steps program has been here for more than 80 years now, as a fellowship that has changed the lives of a multitude. Although it is not a ‘treatment’ per se and doesn’t claim itself to be, several studies and repeated accounts of successful recovering patients have shown that working on 12 steps results in reduced drinking and drugging leading to abstinence.
The principles of AA are embodied in the 12 steps and AA literature. Moreover, sponsors play an important role as well. They have established members, enjoying sobriety for a substantial period, and have applied the 12 steps to their own lives. Mentor other members, give advice and support thereby helping in completing the 12 steps. They also guide in terms of the mindset, paradigms, and tasks needed to achieve this goal. Sponsors help both new and other established members of AA, but ‘newcomers’ are given special importance when it comes to support and help.