But we don’t know what’s wrong, and we don’t know how to do anything differently. We wouldn’t be reaching for recovery if we didn’t know that something was very wrong with our lives, if we didn’t know that we needed to do something different. If you want something different, you have to do something different. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. We try to know and understand what we do and why we do it, what we think and why we think it, what we feel and why we feel it. It tells us to search honestly and deeply within ourselves in order to know the exact nature of our actions, thoughts and emotions. We have tried and tried to make things different in our lives, but we haven’t been able to find a way. We want to change – we honestly want to change. Our life takes on a different reality as we change the way we know our own nature and the way we interact with other people. They work together to join us with the human race as who we are, rather than as who we pretend to be. Step 4 helps us discover our true self and Step 5 teaches us to share it with other people. Principles: Self-examination, Personal honesty, Self-acceptance Search honestly and deeply within ourselves to know the exact nature of our actions, thoughts and emotions. It was originally written by two women, Martha Cleveland and Arlys G., and published in 1991. As valuable today as it was then, a second edition of this exceptional work was published by AA Agnostica. This is a chapter from the pioneering book: The Alternative Twelve Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery.
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