Following are principles I try to live my life by on a daily basis. These have been borrowed in part from the Twelve Steps of *Al-Anon.
- I admitted I was powerless over outside forces and influences. I only have control over myself.
- I came to believe that a Power greater than myself could restore me to reality. I had to learn to put myself first.
- I decided to turn my will and my life over to the care of Higher Power as I understood Him.
- I made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself based on my core ethics
- I admitted to my Higher Power, to myself, and to another human the exact nature of my wrongs and was entirely ready to have Higher Power remove all these defects in character
- I humbly asked him to remove my deficiencies
- I made a list of people I had wronged and made amends to all, except when to do so would harm them or others.
- I continued to take personal inventory and when I was wrong promptly admitted it.
- I sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Higher Power as I understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
*Al-Anon Family Groups is an international mutual aid organization for people who have been impacted by another person's alcoholism www.al-anon.org (No affiliation).