People have difficulty prioritizing their spiritual health and their attention is easily diverted from spiritual maintenance as life's distractions take up their time.
Spiritual principles of recovery are guiding principles that heal us from the inside out. A big part of recovery is personal growth.
Compulsion, obsession and anxiety are interconnected in mental health.
There are sometimes persistent unwanted thoughts, images and impulses that drive us to act…
Additionally, and increasingly, we witness people with these behaviors, addiction to work, the internet, shopping, etc.
People, when they become self-aware, can practice these principles with ease, and often need to remember that their goal is not just to stay away from the excess in themselves that harms them, but rather the need to improve themselves.
Working in a 12-step recovery program can help with this growth! Becoming a better person begins with awareness and self-knowledge. The model and paradigm of the Twelve Step groups, Alcoholics Anonymous, originated in the United States in the 1930s, and has since used a spiritual, non-religious program to recover from addictions.
Awareness begins with knowing what goals you want to achieve and the person you want to be. As we practice these principles, we become the best versions of ourselves.
These 12 steps are independent of any religion, whether monotheistic such as Judaism, Christianity or Islam, or a non-theistic religion such as Buddhism or Taoism, because spirituality is a vital part of your recovery experience. The same applies to people who adhere to an agnostic or atheist school of thought.
Using the 12 spiritual principles of healing, following the 12 steps and the guidance of others who have successfully established and maintained a conscious lifestyle, is the path to balance.
The twelve step movement provides a model of a spiritual system
that works, helping people transform themselves in a practical and unequivocal way.
It also encourages spiritual exploration, that is, finding a way to believe in something greater and more powerful than oneself, and being the ones who decide what that power will be…
For those who were not raised in a faith tradition or who cannot accept the tradition in which they were raised, this step may require a discovery of other traditions in a search for wisdom and knowledge of God.
Therefore, it is a Spiritual and not a Religious program.
The twelve-step movement teaches how we can free ourselves from addictive ways of being, putting us in contact with other people with the same problem to learn from other faith systems in a model of equality, openness and dialogue.
The 12 spiritual principles of recovery are as follows: acceptance, hope, faith, courage, honesty, patience, humility, willingness, brotherly love, integrity, self-discipline, and service.
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