Twelve steps to recovery… Step 5- admitting our wrongs
September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, so Health and Wellness Channel bloggers are discussing the twelve steps to recovery as it relates to our readers. I will be discussing step number 5…
Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
This is tough for me as I have never had to deal with an alcohol addiction and by no means do I want to equate anything trivial or simple with this very tough and spiritual goal of completing the 12 steps- so I will attempt to reflect on this as I think one with heart disease could.
We need to stop hiding behind our own excuses, problems and shortcomings and take responsibility for our own actions and thus disease process. Did I smoke too much? Should I have listened to my doctor more? Do I eat nutritious enough and exercise as I should?
You can be angry that you had open heart surgery but you need to own up to your anger. After 22 years of smoking, did you help create the problem? I am not saying you caused the entire issue but you have to admit and take stock in your wrong doing and allow yourself to move forward.
This is work in progress and it may take time for you to come to grips and own up to these things but once you do your anger should be lessened…. those that anger us control us.
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1 opinion for Twelve steps to recovery… Step 5- admitting our wrongs
Abdul-Rahman
Sep 23, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Step 5 is very important for me and I learned that it is a process that tells me to do 3 things and get 3 spiritual principles to apply in daily living. Admit to God for forgiveness, admit to myself for understanding and admit to another human being for humility. these 3 principles allow me to be in position for God to remove the defect that is causing me the problem. I have to ask God to forgive me for acting on the exact nature of what is going on with me to get it at the root and with that forgiveness I can better understand my part in causing the wrong then tell someone else is a very humbling experience and ego deflating proposition which puts me again in position for God to remove the defect, which is the exacture nature.
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