What are the 12 steps?

Question

What are the 12 steps?

Answer 1

UGH ! The things leading to your house maybe? Unless your talking about AA, then they would be the things you do for your recovery, each step has a purpose that helps you understand the things you did while drinking or any other choice of addiction, and then teaches you how to over come them, ONE DAY AT A TIME!!!! And Helps you make atonement One day at a time!!God Bless You!

Answer 2

Twelve Steps

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

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.

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

Answer 3

The 12 Steps

    * Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - 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 God

    * 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 God 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 God, praying only for knowledge of God's 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 other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

This version of the 12 steps is an adaptation from the original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and is intended for general use with any addictive or dysfunctional behavior.

Answer 4

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous.[8]

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

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

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 alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Other twelve-step groups have adapted these steps of AA as guiding principles for problems other than alcoholism. In some cases the steps have been altered to emphasize particular principles important to those fellowships, or to remove gender biased or specifically religious language.[9][10][11]

Answer 5

1 stop doing whatever bad thing you're doing

2 stop doing whatever bad thing you're doing

3 stop doing whatever bad thing you're doing

etc...

Answer 6

12 steps to what???