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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 05-23-2014, 02:18 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo If you have fear of taking Step Four, go back to... If you have fear of taking Step Four, go back to Step Three to find the faith you need to start. It doesn't have to be done all at once, take of the surface stuff, and work for there as you detox...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:53 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo This should be written out with a sponsor or a... This should be written out with a sponsor or a clergyman. This is a suggestion in the different fellowships at least the early ones. This was started in February 2009 and I am half way through...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:41 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Some will object to many of the questions posed,... Some will object to many of the questions posed, because they think their own character defects have not been so glaring. To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:39 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo If I am unable to change the present state of... If I am unable to change the present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they are? Questions like these, more of which will come to mind...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:38 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo uppose that financial insecurity constantly... uppose that financial insecurity constantly arouses these same feelings. I can ask myself to what extent have my own mistakes fed my gnawing anxieties. And if the actions of others are part of the...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:37 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo importance for most alcoholics are the questions... importance for most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and emotional security. In these areas fear, greed, possessiveness, and pride have too often...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:36 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the... By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:36 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo We eat, drink, and grab for more of everything... We eat, drink, and grab for more of everything than we need, fearing we shall never have enough. And with genuine alarm at the prospect of work, we stay lazy. We loaf and procrastinate, or at best...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:35 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo A lot of my pride was false. Much of it was a... A lot of my pride was false. Much of it was a result of expectations projected onto me by others or put upon myself to reach what I thought was necessary to find acceptance, validation and love from...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:34 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Of course the depressive and the power-driver are... Of course the depressive and the power-driver are personality extremes, types with which A.A. and the whole world abound. Often these personalities are just as sharply defined as the examples given....

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:34 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo To see how erratic emotions victimized us often... To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:33 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo We had to drink because at work we were great... We had to drink because at work we were great successes or dismal failures. We had to drink because our nation had won a war or lost a peace. And so it went, ad infinitum. We thought "conditions"...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:31 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo The sponsors of those who feel they need no... The sponsors of those who feel they need no inventory are confronted with quite another problem. This is because people who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:31 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo It helped me to go to meeting and hear other... It helped me to go to meeting and hear other people's stories and though a lot of their drunk-a-log I didn't identify with, I certainly identified with the feelings when they shared them. That was a...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:30 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Mirror, mirror on the walll who is the dummest of... Mirror, mirror on the walll who is the dummest of us all! Me! Me! Me! I told my best friend who I went through recovery with that I didn't need a Fourth Step. She laughed! She then proceeded to...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:30 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo If temperamentally we are on the depressive side,... If temperamentally we are on the depressive side, we are apt to be swamped with guilt and self-loathing. We wallow in this messy bog, often getting a misshapen and painful pleasure out of it. As we...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:29 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo If temperamentally we are on the depressive side,... If temperamentally we are on the depressive side, we are apt to be swamped with guilt and self-loathing. We wallow in this messy bog, often getting a misshapen and painful pleasure out of it. As we...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:27 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Alcoholics especially should be able to see that... Alcoholics especially should be able to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking. We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:27 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Demands made upon other people for too much... Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves--two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:26 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Another may develop such an obsession for... Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that he wants to do nothing but hoard money. Going to the extreme, he can become a miser, or even a recluse who denies himself both family...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:25 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Before tackling the inventory problem in detail,... Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is. Simple examples like the following take on a world of meaning when we think about them. Suppose...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:25 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort... Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are. We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us....

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:24 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo All of my life, I want to belong. I wanted to be... All of my life, I want to belong. I wanted to be part of the in crowd. I wanted to fit in. I wanted you to love and accept me. The problem was I wasn't sure that you could accept me for who I was,...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:24 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Step Four "Made a searching and fearless... Step Four "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Creation gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn't be complete human beings. If men and women didn't...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:22 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Some will object to many of the questions posed,... Some will object to many of the questions posed, because they think their own character defects have not been so glaring. To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:20 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the... By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:19 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo The sponsors of those who feel they need no... The sponsors of those who feel they need no inventory are confronted with quite another problem. This is because people who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:18 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Before tackling the inventory problem in detail,... Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is. Simple examples like the following take on a world of meaning when we think about them. Suppose...

Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions 12-15-2013, 07:17 AM

Replies: 28 Step Four Study Views: 9,536 Posted By MajestyJo Step Four Study The following was posted on four other sites, thought I would share it here, to go with the Step Four I just posted. I copied each paragraph from the AA 12 Steps and 12 Traditions and shared my...

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