Definitions 1
Free of deceit and untruthfulness.
Honesty
The action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered.
Acceptance
You are behind on treatment plan assignments and tell your case manager that you completed them but lost them when you didn't. What spiritual principle should you apply?
Honesty
1. We admitted we were powerless over drugs/alcohol, and that our lives had become unmanageable. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Acceptance
Honesty
6. Were entirely ready to have god remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.
What spiritual principle(s) do these steps represent?
Acceptance
Surrender
Humility
Hope
Faith
Receptive to arguments or ideas.
Open Mindedness
Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
Faith
You're having reservations about following your sponsor's or case manager's suggestions. What spiritual principles should you apply?
Open Mindedness
2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Open Mindedness
Faith
8. Made a list of all persons we have harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What spiritual principle(s) do these steps represent?
Willingness
Honesty
Humility
The quality or state of being prepared to do something.
Willingness
The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.
Gratitude
You're struggling with feeling inferior or superior to others. What spiritual principle should you apply?
Humility
3. We turned our will and our life over to the care of god as we understood him. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Willingness
Surrender
Faith
10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Humility
Honesty
A modest view of one's own importance.
Humility
Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of something that one does not necessarily like or agree with without interference.
Tolerance
You've had multiple behavioral issues and feel it's unfair that you have been placed back focus. What spiritual principle should you apply?
Acceptance
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Honesty
Humility
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 it out. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Faith
Willingness
Open Mindedness
To let go of anger or resentment towards someone.
Forgiveness
The ability to do something that frightens one.
Courage
You're afraid to ask a stranger at a meeting to be your sponsor. What spiritual principle should you use?
Courage
5. Admitted to god, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Honesty
Courage
Willingness
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we carried the message to addicts/alcoholics and practice these principles in all of our affairs. What spiritual principle(s) does this step represent?
Service
Unity
Willingness