What are the rules of recovery? I know 12 steps go into this but I have never become familar with that, is the?
Is there a rule book for recovery…..I see people recovery from cancer…from debt…from all kinds of addictions……where can I find simple but powerful informations about this subject…..If you don’t know but might know others who can help, please give me a star cause your contacts might have the answer…thank you!
Try this website
http://www.healpastlives.com/future/rule/rurecovr.htm
There is no one book or plan for recovery from addiction, but professionals generally agree, believe and guide one toward the following:
1. You must be sick and tired of being sick and tired
2. You must have lost something important (job, family, etc.) in addition to losing the "good" feelings that have have kept you in addiction.
3. You must have reached the point where you can be totally honest with yourself – especially about yourself
Not easy, but necessary for recovery. Almost no one makes it without professional and/or group support.
Use a search engine to look up "12 steps". It’s a place to start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program
There are twelve step programs for practically any addiction, or harmful behavior these day. Do a quick google book search to find some relative reading material.
Notice your (the modern) inclination to believe that information and rules are necessary , or even helpful. Quite the contrary, actually. The rest of the animal kingdom does better than humans, without any books, rules, or data whatsoever. They live as they are, with what God made them.
But you are a human, an over-civilized product of our times, so I will try to help. Look at the thing you are wanting to "recover from". Admit that it overwhelms you, as you are and have been. Turn it over to the Higher Power who created both you, and your problems. This is steps 1-3, paraphrased.
Then look at the rest of you, which is the environment this problem has thrived in. Carefully inventory your own mind, heart, and bodily situation, in the new spiritual context which you seek, and ask for help. Tell your situation to a trusted friend, and to god, admitting your situation. Be willing before your god and friend to be freed of this problem, and ask that it be removed. This is a paraphrase of Steps 4,5,6 & 7.
Try to identify the havoc effects your problem has caused to others, and be willing to make amends to all concerned. ( 8 and 9)
Continue on, periodically assessing your state and thoughts and actions for the rest of your life, praying that god take over your life and guide you, and give you power to heal and do the next right things. If this all works for you, be willing to carry this message to other afflicted persons, and to teach, and share your experience, strength, and hope with them. This re-states Steps Ten, Eleven, and Twelve.
I don’t think there is really any specific rules. An arduous task like recovery doesn’t come with a manual full of instructions. All I can say is that persistence, consistency, and patience should apply during the process of recovery. Expecting overnight guaranteed results like they depict in advertisements will cause people nothing but heartache.
The 12 step program originated from Alcoholics Anonymous. The 12 step program doesn’t apply to all issues. It’s only for people who are suffering from addictions. You can find a more inforamtion about the 12 step program in a Big Book published by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Here are the 12 steps to gaining recovery:
• Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addiction – that our lives had become unmanageable.
• Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
• Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
• Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
• Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
• Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
• Step 7: Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
• Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
• Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
• Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
• Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out
• Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs