Alcoholics Anonymous
The Twelve Steps
Wine, beer liquor, all shares the same properties. That is when consumed do something magical to a person. Alcohol makes situations more comfortable and fun. Ancient myths and folklore depict alcohol in their stories. Some depict alcohol as having wonderful healing assets. While some like the bible states many warnings against the misuses of alcohol. For the contemporary drinker alcohol when misused potentially can have devastating effects on his or her life. Not only his or her life but also their family, friends, co-workers lives as well. Although this is the case, there is means of arresting the disease. Before rehabilitation programs individuals were places in sanitariums with the mentally insane. One program changed all that. The program titled Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) was the first of its kind. Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12-step program. To the common person A.A. may seem mystical. Except for the millions of individual who have gotten clean through A.A the steps are no magic fairy dusts. This paper will examine the first four of the 12 Steps in order to understand the content of each step with the goal of developing a spiritual awaking, and the process of a continuum for the recovering individual. The 12 steps represent a beginning of a continuum for a recovering individual, and the acculturation of upright principles and ethics. There is no way an individual must complete the steps to state they have completed it, however there are suggestions and common methods. For instance, one common custom involves acquiring a fellow individual within the group to walk a prospect through the steps. Typically, the term used for someone who walks a person through the 12-steps is titled a Sponsor. Customarily the group expects the sponsor to have at least six months of abstinence off alcohol. Additionally if feasible, the sponsored may be required to attend 90 meetings in 90 days.
Above all else, at the core of working the twelve
Wine, beer liquor, all shares the same properties. That is when consumed do something magical to a person. Alcohol makes situations more comfortable and fun. Ancient myths and folklore depict alcohol in their stories. Some depict alcohol as having wonderful healing assets. While some like the bible states many warnings against the misuses of alcohol. For the contemporary drinker alcohol when misused potentially can have devastating effects on his or her life. Not only his or her life but also their family, friends, co-workers lives as well. Although this is the case, there is means of arresting the disease. Before rehabilitation programs individuals were places in sanitariums with the mentally insane. One program changed all that. The program titled Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) was the first of its kind. Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12-step program. To the common person A.A. may seem mystical. Except for the millions of individual who have gotten clean through A.A the steps are no magic fairy dusts. This paper will examine the first four of the 12 Steps in order to understand the content of each step with the goal of developing a spiritual awaking, and the process of a continuum for the recovering individual. The 12 steps represent a beginning of a continuum for a recovering individual, and the acculturation of upright principles and ethics. There is no way an individual must complete the steps to state they have completed it, however there are suggestions and common methods. For instance, one common custom involves acquiring a fellow individual within the group to walk a prospect through the steps. Typically, the term used for someone who walks a person through the 12-steps is titled a Sponsor. Customarily the group expects the sponsor to have at least six months of abstinence off alcohol. Additionally if feasible, the sponsored may be required to attend 90 meetings in 90 days.
Above all else, at the core of working the twelve
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