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What is “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
Step 5 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character”
Step 6 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”
Step 7 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”
Step 8 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is "Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."
Step 9 of Alcoholics Anonymous
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What is integrity?
The primary spiritual principle behind Step 5
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What is acceptance?
The primary spiritual principle behind Step 6
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What is humility?
The primary spiritual principle of Step 7
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What are love and willingness?
The primary spiritual principle of Step 8
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What is discipline?
The primary spiritual principle of Step 9
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What is sharing your deepest personal history with another person out loud?
The primary reason Step 5 is so difficult
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What is have our Higher Power remove character defects?
Step 6 is about attitude, not action. Step 6 focuses on all negative behavior, not just substances use. In Step 6 we are asked to be ready to do what?
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What is the removal of character defects?
Step 7 is about having a reasonable perspective of yourself, and humbly accepting the truth of your life and your place in the world. This is when we ASK FOR
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What is social isolation?
Step 8 is like the social copycat of Step 4. Once we have completed the work on ourselves, we can now make things right with others. Step 8 is about ending. . .
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What is not making amends when it would harm someone to do so?
Step 9 has an exception. . .
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What is spiritual awakening? Step 5 promises, page 75
Step 5 begins to provide emotional, mental and spiritual relief. By sharing wrongs with a trusted confidant, guilt and shame start to melt away.
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What is every morning when you get up, ask yourself whether you feel willing to turn your negative qualities over to your higher power. Before speaking, ask yourself if what you want to say is positive and based on a belief that your higher power will work things out or negative and based on self-will.
Some things I can practice discipline with during Step 6
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What is NO? Catching ourselves in our shortcomings and changing our reaction takes work. The more familiar you become with your shortcomings the more you start to notice, “this feels familiar, I’d better stop and pay attention to this!”
Are character defects removed just because we ask one time?
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What is become willing, make a list. If you are not willing, pray for the willingness to become willing.
In Step 8 do we become willing to make amends or do we make amends with others?
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What is direct, indirect, living?
Three types of amends
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What is discovery of character defects?
The whole purpose behind completing Step 5
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What is NO?
Do character defects go away during Step 6?
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What is getting "right-sized."
In Step 7, We learn to gradually bring the different parts of ourselves into a healthy balance as we practice new living skills. This is called.. . .
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What is harms list in Step 4 is often useful to make Step 8 list of amends?
How can you use Step 4 to help with Step 8?
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What are the promises of the AA program?
This begins to happen after Step 9
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