MEETING: The Twelve STAGES

<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>The Ten Stages</u></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 1: We admit that the traumas we have buried in our unconscious rule our adult lives, making us powerless to embody our truth, and driving us to act out in ways destructive to ourselves, to others, and to our environment.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 2: We come to believe that the child within at our core is more powerful than the lies imposed upon us, and that this truth can lead us into our recovery.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 3: We make a decision to align with the child within, despite the pressure to submit to the distortions of our family, society, and the historical voices we carry within.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 4: We make a searching and fearless re-assessment of our life in the light of our re-discovered traumatic history: personal, familial and ancestral.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span>Stage 5: We admit to ourselves and to a stages guide who we have come to trust the full details of our traumas. Identifying with help the triggers to our dissociations and unfulfilled needs.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 6: We become entirely ready to grieve this past and to let go of our false self.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 7: We align with our child within and do the deep and transforming work of grieving our losses.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span>Stage 8: We study the ways we have become dissociated and unknowingly hurt ourselves, and others through replication of our traumas, and we become willing to make amends to ourself, them and all we can remember.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 9: We change our inappropriate dissociated behaviour.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 10: We continue to monitor our attitudes and behaviour, and when we now feel the pain in our recovery we promptly admit it, trace its traumatic origin, and take steps to not repeat it.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span>Stage 11: We seek through self-reflection an ever deepening connection to our child within, desiring only to be guided to our child's inner intuitive voice.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stage 12: Having awakened to our child within, we dedicate our lives to its full manifestation and to nurturing the healing paths of others who are on the same recovery path.</span></span>

MEETING: The Twelve STAGES

The Ten Stages Stage 1: We admit that the traumas we have buried in our unconscious rule our adult lives, making us powerless to embody our truth, and driving us to act out in ways destructive to ours…

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<h4> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">First: We admit that the traumas buried in our unconscious rule our lives, makes us powerless to embody the truth, and drives us to act out in ways destructive to ourselves, to others, and to our environment.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Second: We come to believe that the truth of our child within is more powerful than the lies imposed upon us, and that this truth can lead us to recovery.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Third: We make a decision to align with the child within, despite the pressure to submit to the distortions of family, society, and the historical voices we carry within.<br /><br />Fourth: We make a searching and fearless assessment of our traumatic history: personal, familial and ancestral.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Fifth: We admit to ourselves and to a mature person the full details of our traumas.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Sixth: We become entirely ready to grieve this past and to let go of our false self.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Seventh: We align with our child within and do the deep and transforming work of grieving.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Eighth: We study the ways we have hurt ourselves, others and the environment through replication of our dissociated traumas, and we become willing to make amends to them all.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Ninth: We change our inappropriate dissociations.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Tenth: We continue to monitor our intuitive voice attitudes and behaviour, and when we make deviate into dissociation we promptly admit it, trace its traumatic origin, and take steps to not repeat it.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Eleventh: We seek through self-reflection an ever deepening connection to our intuitive voice, desiring only to be guided to our child within.</span></h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Twelfth: Having awakened to our child within, we dedicate our lives to its full manifestation and to nurturing the healing paths of others.</span></h4>

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First: We admit that the traumas buried in our unconscious rule our lives, makes us powerless to embody the truth, and drives us to act out in ways destructive to ourselves, to others, and to our env…

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It takes only 4 hours of study to learn the 10 Stages which gives a lifetime of freedom if practised.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.32043em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.312em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> It takes only 4 hours of study to learn the 10 Stages which gives a lifetime of freedom if practised.</h3> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Through our own experience of working with others, many hopeless, suffering addicts lack the necessary power and time to "keep coming back" to meetings and somehow get sober or clean. Many chronic relapsers do not have the luxury of working the steps slowly -- they need power NOW, they cannot wait months to a year to work the steps -- they're barely hanging on as it is and it's just a question of how soon they're going to pick up again.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That's why, all across North America, there has been a revival of beginners' classes where a suffering addict can take all 12 steps in a matter of a few hours. They can receive an intelligent presentation of "our way of life" and make the decision as to whether or not they wish to accept this life without reservation. Moreover, they can find a power greater than themselves quickly and be restored to sanity FAST by taking this very simple program.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Beginners' Meetings were held throughout the U.S. and Canada during a period of time when A.A. witnessed 50-75 percent recovery rates from alcoholism. Newcomers quickly learned "How It Works". They had conversion experiences, discovered a new way of living without alcohol or drugs and carried this message of hope to others. After completing the steps, newcomers, to ensure their own sobriety, helped others through the Steps and led the Beginners' Meetings.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ruth R., an old-timer in Miami Florida, who came into AA in 1953, gave some insight into the demise of the "Beginners' Classes".</div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #777777; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 18px 0px 23px 18px; overflow: auto; padding: 0.5em 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ruth recalled that the classes were discontinued in the mid-1950s as the result of the publication of the book "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions" by Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing Inc. In the Miami area the "Twelve and Twelve" replaced both the "Big Book" and the "Little Red Book" and "Step Studies" replaced the "Beginners' Classes". In the process, the period for taking the Steps was expanded and modified from 4 weeks to somewhere in between 12 and 16 weeks. The Fourth Step inventory was modified and became a much more laborious and detailed procedure. What was originally conceived as a very simple program, which took a few hours to complete, evolved into a complicated and confusing undertaking requiring several months.</div> </blockquote> <h3 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.32043em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.312em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> Studying the Steps is not the same as taking the Steps. In the "Beginners' Classes" you take the steps. The Big Book says, "Here are the steps we took" not "here are the steps we read and talked about." The AA pioneers proved that action, not knowledge, produced the spiritual awakening that resulted in recovery from alcoholism or addiction.</h3> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the September 1945 issue of the Grapevine the Genesee Group in Rochester, NY explained their format for taking newcomers through the Steps. The title of the article was "Rochester Prepares Novices for Group Participation". This is how they perceived the recovery process to operate most efficiently: "It has been our observation that bringing men [and woman] into the group indiscriminately and without adequate preliminary training and information can be a source of considerable grief and a cause of great harm to the general moral of the group itself. We feel that unless a man, after a course of instruction and an intelligent presentation of the case for the AA life, has accepted it without any reservation he should not be included in group membership. When the sponsors feel that a novice has a fair working knowledge of AA's objectives and sufficient grasp of it's fundamentals then he is brought to his first group meeting.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> To show other addicts precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of the beginners' meeting. Our format quotes extensively from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (4th Edition), our basic text for recovery. Our notes, commentary, and gender-neutral changes are formatted in italics.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. (p. 58, A.A. 4h Edition)</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Of alcoholics who came to A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement. Other thousands came to a few A.A. meetings and at first decided they didn't want the program. But great numbers of these--about two out of three--began to return as time passed. (p. xx, A.A. 4th Edition)</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Our primary purpose is to work the steps and teach others how to teach others how to work the steps. We connect suffering addicts to recovered addicts who guide newcomers through a personalised <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">one on one</span> study of the original, undiluted 12 step program described in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We substitute terms and phrases related to alcoholism to include ANY obsessive, compulsive patterns such as drinking alcohol, using drugs, gambling, sex, self-harm or injury, food, anorexia, bulimia, sugar, smoking, co-dependency etc., anyone can certainly increase this list and all are welcome.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.bigbooksponsorship.org/downloads/4-hour-12-steps.pdf" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: darkblue; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: all; transition-timing-function: ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;">Download this FREE 12 Step workbook that guides the newcomer through all 12 steps.</a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.85714em; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This format is designed for 2 or more addicts working in pairs and can be conducted in one half day, four hour session or in four, one-hour sessions.</div> <br /> <footer class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="comments-block" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post light" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <section class="shadow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12.25px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.9999599456787px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></section></div> </div> </footer><br /> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.85714em; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px 18px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div>

It takes only 4 hours of study to learn the 10 Stages which gives a lifetime of freedom if practised.

It takes only 4 hours of study to learn the 10 Stages which gives a lifetime of freedom if practised. Through our own experience of working with others, many hopeless, suffering addicts lack the nece…

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