The physical process of taking somebody through the 12 dance step of alcoholics anonymous

the great unwashed will approach you to take on the through the big playscript and when they do approach you ask them :

1 do you want what I have ?

2 what are you leave to do to get it ?

3. Have the individual read the first 164 varlet of the big book and after for them to hollo you

Read it, just read it

Don't bug them, do not ask them where they are in there reading.

Humbling him or her is the key

What is working for them is not working for them anymore or they would not be coming to see you…

Let them occur to you… very important…

When they call you… you set up the escort, time and place that is convenient for you

He says he can not do it on Tuesday

-what did you lie to me ...

-you told me that you are willing to go to any length

-you do not want to make it inconvenant for him ... you do not want him to loose his job

-Is he bequeath to do anything ... ?

*your contrivance, always*

-You do this one on one - facial expression to face

He must understand that your and his most appreciate asset is your or his time ...

-have him get to you ; you do not occur to him ...

Try your serious to be alone ...

Let us get started

Bring out the big record book of alcoholics annonomous

that the program of alcoholic anonymous is outlined in the first 164 Page of the big book

Have the somebody you are working with agree to it… this is very important

have a dictionary

text book

boozer

alcoholism

alcoholic drink

drug

sponsor

stop out that drugs are not the Sami as alcohol

9 A little AA chronicle

There are two case of AA's

1 placard w New York AA - fear in fellowship.

2 dr. bob Ackron Buckeye State as - fait and trust

Clarence snider had the first aa meeting in Cleveland Ohio

Go right to the championship page and have them show aloud

facial expression up recovered and ask them the meaning

To reestablish to a rule state

* The senior the dictionary the beneficial

We talking keep open your conversation in the past the first 9 steps

you are only dealing with the time he first came into AA back

Look up the word precisely and any early word you think should be looking up

Unmanageability and impotence in regard to there drinking stop this out over and over as we read

*** mustiness BLOW ALL THE THEY Says out of the water

***after there is one thing I will need you to do, for you to care to another recovering dipsomaniac in the Sami way/ operation that I showed you…

When talking parcel your experience and how you are staying and living sombre

Our way is not the entirely way but it is the way that worked



The deed page

The story of how many chiliad of men and women have recovered from alcoholism

prolusion

Read it and name back to your definition of the news basic text

Because this book has become the canonical text of our Society and has helped suck tumid phone number of alcoholic men and fair sex to recover, there exists a sentiment against any radical alteration being made in it. There ore, the number 1 constituent of this mass, describing the A.A.recovery political program, has been left untouched in the course of remit made for both the mo and the third editions. The department called the doctor's opinion has been kept inviolate, just as it was originally written 1939 by the late Dr. William d. silk Worth, our order's great medical examination benefactor.

Forward to the first version

Look precisely and point out the word recovered

We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are Thomas More than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of brain and body. To shew former souse precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.

And besides, we are for sure that our way of animation has its advantage for all.

Foreword to second variant pageboy xv

Point out the word recovered

In that brief place, dipsomaniac Anonymous has mushroomed into 6,000 radical whose membership is far supra 150,000 recovered Alcoholics.

Forward page xvii

Look up the word permanent wave

It also indicates that strenuous piece of work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.

Forward page xxi

Upon therapy for the soaker himself we surely have no monopoly. Yet it is our slap-up hope that all those who have as yet found no reply may begin to determine one in the pages of this Word and will presently connect us on the high road to a new freedom.

This is the way that the programme of alcoholic anon. was given to me. –not the only way but the way that was given to me.

We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thou of men and womanhood who were once just as hopeless as Bill. Nearly all have recovered. They have solved the deglutition problem.

The feeling of having shared in a unwashed peril is one factor in the herculean cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.

The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely check, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism.

What is the common result ? The 12 steps

This Christian Bible was written for the still suffering alcoholic

But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solvent, who is properly armed with the facts about himself, can generally win the entire assurance of another alcoholic in a few hr. Until such an understanding is reached, little or goose egg can be accomplished.

That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole demeanour shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a substantial answer, that he has no attitude of holier than thousand, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful ; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no multitude to delight, no lecture to be endured-these are the conditions we have found most effective.

Do you they feel that Saame way about you ...

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We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning.

Many could recuperate if they had the opportunity we have enjoyed. How then shall we present that which has been so freely given us ?

We have concluded to publish an anonymous volume setting forth the job as we see it. We shall bring to the undertaking our combined experience and cognition. This should suggest a useful programme for anyone concerned with a drinking problem.

AA lineage Dr Bob to Clarence Schnider to Willis Kilgore to jack up Bowen to Joe Gauvin to Robert the Bruce Ciungan

The start three had direct hand in the written material of the big account book, this is the 46 men and one woman who wrote the big book.

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You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became so very ill from drinking. Doubtless you are funny to discover how and why, in the human face of skilful opinion to the obstinate, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of brain and body. If you are an alcohol-dependent who wants to get over it, you may already be asking - WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO ?

It is the purpose of this book to answer such questions specifically. We shall tell you what we have done.

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He is often perfectly sensible and well equilibrate concerning everything except liquor, but in that respectfulness he is incredibly dishonest and selfish. He often possesses extra abilities, skills, and aptitudes, and has a hopeful career ahead of him.

dot out the examples… The insanity and add together powerlessness over booze

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As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combining of high-octane sedatives and booze to calm down his spunk so he can go to form. Then comes the day when he simply can not take a crap it and gets drunk all over again. Perhaps he goes to a Dr. who gives him morphine or some sedative drug with which to taper off. Then he begins to appear at hospitals and sanitariums.

What has become of the vernacular gumption and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to former topic ?

1. Person is insane when he pledge and normal in others areas of his life

2. Only clock time a drug is mentioned

3. inebriant and drugs are not the same

Thomas Nelson Page 23

Therefore, the main job of the souse nub in his mind, rather than in his body.

But in their meat they really do not recognize why they do it. Once this malady has a genuine clench, they are a thwart lot. There is the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game. But they often suspect they are down for the count.

1 .More examples of more insanity and powerlessness over John Barleycorn

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The fact is that most dipsomaniac, for reasonableness yet obscure, have lost the office of choice in drink. Our so-called will major power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain fourth dimension, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient military force the retention of the distress and humility of even a hebdomad or month ago. We are without defense force against the first drink.

You are without defense against the first drink.

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There is a solution.

The great fact is just this, and nothing less : That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our unscathed mental attitude toward life, toward our cuss and toward god's universe.

If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no centrist solution.

Thomas Nelson Page 26

He seemed quite noetic and well-adjusted with regard to other problems. Yet he had no control whatever over alcohol. Why was this ?

More insanity

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He seemed rather noetic and well-balanced with obedience to other problems. Yet he had no control whatever over intoxicant. Why was t

Recovered, that Holy Scripture recovered again…

Our hope is that many alcoholic men and cleaning lady, desperately in indigence, will see these Page, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our job that they will be persuaded to say, yes, I am one of them too ; I must sustain this thing.

I must

Have at this time to find a key

Talk about him and how he did it and share

Sir Frederick Handley Page 30

No person likes to conceive he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows.

Is the low gear whole step in convalescence. The delusion that we are like early people, or presently may be, has to be mashed.

1 Relate some of your experiences…

2 find out more about them…

We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the power to control our drinking. We know that no real alky ever recovers ascendency. All of us felt at fourth dimension that we were regaining ascendance, but such intervals-usually brief-were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and uncomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that souse of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable full stop we get worse, never better.

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By every form of self-deceit and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exception to the pattern, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone can do a right-about-face and pledge like a valet de chambre, our lid are off to him. vault of heaven knows, we have tried intemperately enough and long enough to tope like other people !

All this powerlessness

What are we missing ?

Ask them if they are boozer and refer back to the definition

Ask them if they are not a practicing it today

We do not like to pronounce any person as alcoholic, but you can quickly name yourself. stride over to the approximate saloon and try some insure drinking. Try to pledge and cease abruptly. Try it more than once. It will not occupy long for you to determine, if you are honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition.

Do they want to do it… ?

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Once an alcoholic, always an boozer. Commencing to drink after a geological period of soberness, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to terminate drinking, there must be no reserve of any of any kind, nor any loiter notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.

Several of our crowd, men of thirty or to a lesser extent, had been drinking only a few twelvemonth, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had been drinking twenty years,

To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to imbibe a longsighted time nor get hold of the measure some of us have.

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Though you may be able to stop for a considerable flow, you may yet be a potential alcoholic. We think few, to whom this record will appeal, can stay dry anything like a twelvemonth. Some will be rummy the day after making their resolutions ; most of them within a few weeks.

Examples over and over of impotence ...

Do you really want to barricade ?

For those who are unable to drink moderately the interrogative is how to cease altogether. We are assuming, of track, that the proofreader desires to stop. Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual base depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the exponent to choose whether he will drink or not. Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a marvellous impulse to finish forever. Yet we found it unsufferable.

This is the bilk feature of dipsomania as we know it-this utter inability to go out it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish.

Repeat this ...

How then shall we assist our readers determine, to their own gratification, whether they are one of us ? The experiment of quitting for a period of prison term will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater inspection and repair to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps to the medical fraternity.

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All went well for a clip, but failed to lucubrate his spiritual sprightliness. To his consternation, he found himself pledge one-half dozen meter in rapid succession.

to a greater extent impotence

more insanity

more unmanageability

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Whatever the accurate definition of the Scripture may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportionality, of the ability to believe straight, be called anything else ?

But even in this character of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the luminosity of what always happened.

insanity is the unmanageability of our lives caused by alcoholic drink

see up the word of honor sane

Sir Frederick Handley Page 38

However intelligent we may stimulate been in other respects, where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane.

parcel your and his experiences

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But the literal or potential boozer, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely ineffectual to blockade drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a gunpoint we wish to underscore and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic subscriber as it has been revealed to us out of bitterness experience.

Thomas Nelson Page 40

The story he told is most instructive, for here was a chap absolutely convinced he had to end beverage, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and finding in all his former concerns, yet was flat on his spinal column nevertheless

here again impotency

insanity

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I knew from that consequence that I had an alcoholic mind.

Sir Frederick Handley Page 43

Many medico and psychiatrists agree with our conclusions. One of these men, faculty phallus of a world-renowned hospital, recently made this statement to some of us : What you say about the general hopelessness of the average alcoholic's quandary is, in my opinion, correct. As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my thinker that you were 100 % hopeless, apart from divine help. Had you offered yourselves as patients at this infirmary, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to obviate it. people like you are too heartbreaking. Though not a religious person, I have profound respect for the spiritual approach in such casing as yours. For most casing, there is virtually no other solution.

1 this is were the for the first time step and the arcsecond step come together

Once more : The alcoholic at certain fourth dimension has no effective mental defense against the first-class honours degree drink. Except in a few rare pillow slip, neither he nor any other human being can render such a refutation.

HIS DEFENSE MUST COME FROM A HIGHER POWER.

Now I want you to for me to a mirror that will depict us both.

Standing succeeding to each other and each see the other.

-Look at yourself in the mirror ; can you image you as being god ? Of course not, you are not god

-Looking at me in the mirror, can you look-alike me as being god ? Of course not, I am not god ...

-You can not make me

-I can not make you.

There is a god that created you and a god that create me…

Now use up them out English with you and point out the trees, sky, other people, and plants.

request over and over ;

Could you create that ? No no no no no no no no

Who could make that ? GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD.

This is important that you believe is some mogul that is with child then you or I.

Go back inside sit down and ask, How do you feel ?

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If, when you honestly want to, you find you can not quit entirely, or if when imbibition, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcohol-dependent. If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which ONLY a religious experience will conquer.

only a spiritual experience



To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easily alternatives to face.

But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual ground of life- or else.

must we must…

If a mere computer code of ethical motive or a better philosophy of life history were sufficient to subdue alcohol addiction, many of us would induce recovered long ago.

Thomas Nelson Page 45

Lack of power, that was our quandary. We had to get a top executive by which we could go, and it had to be a POWER GEATER THAN OURSELVES. Obviously. But where and how were we to happen this mogul ?

wellspring, that's exactly what this record book is about. Its master object is to enable you to find a Power cracking than yourself which will solve your problem. That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as well as lesson. And it means, of grade, that we are going to verbalise about GOD.

look up the word exactly.

That is exactly what this Scripture is about.

We have written a book

Spiritual as well moral

We are going to talk about God

Sir Frederick Handley Page 46

Let us make rush to reassure you. We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to think in a magnate greater than ourselves, we commenced to get effect, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that top executive, which is God.

You don not consume roll in the hay what he is, just that he is…

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On one proffer, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed. Every one of them has gained access to, and believes in, a Power greater than himself. This business leader has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly unimaginable. As a celebrated American English statesman put it, let's aspect at the record.

What is strikingly agreed ... ?

Here are thousands of men and cleaning woman, worldly indeed. They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power keen than themselves, to guide a certain attitude toward that index, and to do sure unproblematic affair, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of life and thinking.

What are these simple things ?

The simple things are the balance of the stone's throw

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Thinking - you can still do it…

Logic is great hooey. We liked it. We still like it. It is not by chance we were given the power to understanding, to analyse the evidence of our sentience, and line finish. That is one of man's magnificent attributes.

Thomas Nelson Page 54

We found, too, that we had been worshippers. What a United States Department of State of mental goose-flesh that used to fetch on ! Had we not variously worshipped hoi polloi, persuasion, things, money, and ourselves ? And then, with a better motivation, had we not worshipfully behold the sunset, the sea, or a flower ? Who of us had not loved something or person ? How much did these notion, these making love, these adoration, have to do with pure reason ?

Do you want to drink ?

When was the last clock time you wanted a drink ?

When was the last time you did not feel like having a beverage ?

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God had restored his saneness

How did god do that ?

God removed the desire to drink.

What was missing ?

Power over liquor

even so has god restored us all to our right thinker. To this man, the revelation was sudden. Some of us grow into it slowly. But he has come to all who have honestly sought him.

When we drew near to him he disclosed himself to us !

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point to chapter 5, how it works

Those who do not reclaim are people who can not or will not completely give themselves to this simple program,

If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it-then you are ready to ask certain steps.

Are you willing to go to any length to get it ?

Certain steps, sounds definite ...

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Here are the steps we took :

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our life story had become unmanageable.

Came to consider that a Power great than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

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

Made a searching and fearless lesson inventorying of ourselves.

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

Were entirely make to have God bump off all these defects of character.

Humbly asked Him to take away our shortcomings.

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

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

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

Sought through prayer and meditation to better our conscious liaison with God as we understood Him, praying only for cognition of His will for us and the world power to deport that out.

Having had a spectral awakening as the result of these stride, we tried to carry this subject matter to soaker, and to practice these principles in all our affaires.

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The initiative prerequisite is that we be convinced that any lifespan run on self-will can hardly be a success.

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Selfishness-self-centeredness ! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.

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We were now at stride three.

this is the third footfall entreaty

We face each other with al-Qur'an in mitt so we can first take in you translate the prayer…

Then we, together both read the prayer…

Now we leave you to continue re reading the appeal until you really find it ...

God, I offer myself to thee-to do with me as chiliad wilting. allay me of the bondage of self, that I may better do thy will. take on away my difficulties, that victory over them may have witness to those I would help of thy power, thy love, and thy way of life. May I do thy will always !

When they return ask them how the feel…

We though well before taking this whole step making trusted we ready ; that we could at end abandon ourselves utterly to him.

We found it very desirable to rent this spiritual stride with an savvy person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.

This was only a beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, an event, sometimes a very big one, was felt at once.

Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning.

1 looks up the word next

Next we launched out on a row of vigorous military action, the offset measure of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was lively and crucial footprint, it could have small permanent outcome unless at once followed by a arduous effort to cheek, and to be rid of, the affair in ourselves which had been blocking us. Our hard liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions.

How to go without ( booze ) blocking ourselves from what ?

God

return our dictionary and I want you to do the 4th step your way or the way they think it is to be done

You have to write it down

Remember that at all times you are going to be alright…

We break here and for you to read to the end of this chapter

The man psyche can only comprehend one thing at a time…

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Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory. This was step four.

Upon your return key

Hand me your away stair,

Take their twenty-five percent stone's throw wode it up and through it into the skinny trash can.

Explain to you that I already know what is in your fourth pace because I am an alcoholic like you…

The bottom origin causal agent and circumstance are all the same…

A name, space or date may be dissimilar but the same

Now we are going to do the fourth footmark my way…

Take a clean part of ruled report and vertically fold the sheet into three equal sections…

Write down column 1 the tilt of 27 graphic symbol defects.

fiber defects

intemperateness

Self-pity

self-justification

Self-importance

self condemnation

Impatient

False-pride

Laziness

Procrastination

Criticism

Insincerity

Dishonesty

systematisation

Indecision - worry

Conceit

Carelessness

Intolerance

caustic remark

wrath

invidia

jealousy

avarice

lecherousness

Hate

Suspicion

Revenge

fear

Having them go somewhere they can be alone. Using the space in the center editorial to compose a different public figure be each of the grapheme defects

When they return have them start by talk out loud about each name completely before going onto the next name



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Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what we have done. We thank God from the ass of our nub that we know Him better. Taking this volume down from our shelf we turn to the pageboy which contains the twelve steps. Carefully reading the first five proposal we ask if we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an archway through which we shall walk a free man at last.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our biography had become difficult. –is this true

Came to conceive that a king greater than ourselves could doctor us to sanity. –is this genuine

Made a decision to bend our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him. –is this true

Made a searching and fearless moral stock list of ourselves. - is this truthful

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the accurate nature of our legal injury. –is this unfeigned

Is our work solid so far ? Well is it…

Are the gemstone properly in stead ? Well is it…

Have we skimped on the cement put into the foundation ? Have we tried to make howitzer without sand ?

Is there anything you could go to jug for ?

send the back to the room alone for one hour to put anymore epithet on their tilt

When they return start talking about the new names on the tilt one at a fourth dimension until he is finished ...

wealthy person you omitted anything before we go on..

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If we can reply to our satisfaction, we then look at pace Six.

Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable ? Can he now take them all - every one ?

Asked him ; Can God now take the all- every one

With book in deal and on your knees, you read out loud the footmark seven prayer…

My Lord, I am now uncoerced that you should have all of me, near and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single blemish of type which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. yield me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.

We say this supplicant out cargo together for a endorse time

We keep saying that petition until all 27 defects of part you feel god take them all away from you

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We have then completed stair Seven.

1 what does that stand for completed step seven…

Remember it was agreed at the outset, we would go to any duration for triumph over alcohol.

Sir Frederick Handley Page 77

Our actual purpose is to fit ourselves to be of upper limit inspection and repair to God and the masses about us.

Here you combat your character flaw and their principals or spiritual principals. By each character defect you ask yourself what would I have to do so I do not to that character defect

Character defects Negro spiritual principals

self-indulgence sharing -being more giving

Self-pity gratitude, self-forgetfulness

alibi humility

Self-importance modestness

Self-condemnation self valuation

restlessness forbearance

False-pride restraint

Laziness natural process

procrastination promptitude

critique accompaniment –look for the right

Insincerity straightforwardness

Dishonesty ( lying, steeling, cheating ) Lunaria annua

rationalisation responsible

irresolution - worry hope

Conceit verity

Carelessness carefulness

Intolerance allowance

irony understanding

ira forgivingness

Envy generosity

green-eyed monster cartel

avarice charity

Lust clean spiritual thinking

hatred sleep with

hunch respect

Revenge forgiveness

Fear faith

teardrop the paper into 3 parts. The first is the list of case defects that you use for stair 10 to do your daily personal stocktaking. The indorsement is the list of figure to be used for step 8 and 9. The third list is your list of ghostly head teacher for you to practice in all your affair, like in step 12.

whole step 10, 11 and 12 are to be practiced each day .