Enhancing Spirituality

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There is a difference between religion

and spirituality.


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Religion is humanity's way of

expressing our relationship with a

Higher Power

Spirituality IS that

relationship.


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Relationships

To self

-Insight

-Acceptance

To the environment

-Which feeds and

breathes us-Which touches us

To other humans

-Partner

-Family

-Friends-Community

-Society

-Enemy

To the Higher power


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WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY

Search for meaning

Search for purpose

Development of the person

Connection to something greater than yourself A way of life

Miller (2003) notes that many factors point to

Spirituality as an antidote to addiction: as a preventative,atreatment, and a path to transformation.(Waters & Shafer,2005)


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When we closely adhere to our values

we feel great at the top of the curve.


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We violate our values, we experienceGuilt and Shame. A chemically

dependent person LIVES in guilt and

shame


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ASPECTS OF SPRITUALITY IMPACTING

ADDICTION

Sense of hope and purpose

Forgiveness

Active lifestyle change

Social support

Builds self-reliance, self-esteem, problem solving,

optimism, insight, decision making

Devalue self-indulgence/sensation seeking


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God grant me

the Serenity

to accept the things

I cannot change

Courage the things I can

And the wisdom to know the

difference


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Step Principle

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcoholthat our lives

had become unmanageable.

Honesty

2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could

restore us to sanity.

Hope

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care

of God as we understood Him.

Trust in God

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Truth

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being

the exact nature of our wrongs.

Confession

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of

character.

Change of Heart


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Step Principal

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Humility

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make

amends to them all.

Seeking

Forgiveness

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to

do so would injure them or others.

Restitution and

Reconciliation

10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong,

promptly admitted it.

Daily

Accountability

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious

contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of

His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Personal

Revelation

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried

to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all

our affairs.

Service


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We admitted we were powerless

over alcohol that our lives had

become unmanageable.


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2. Came to believe that a Power

greater than ourselves could restore

us to sanity.


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3. Made a decision to turn our will

and our lives over to the care of God

as we understood Him.


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CHANGE OF

HEART


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Somethinghappensto an addicts way of thinking, feeling, andacting

In the world when she or he turns to recovery. The addict experiencesa profound change. The change that occurs gives rise to new ways ofthinking, feeling, and seeing the world as well as to alterations of lifestance and lifestyle.

The recovering addict feels more comfortable with self, moreconnected at home in the world, and more open to others, Therecovering addict relates to others differently, becomes more honest,more engaged, more patient, humble and grateful. The recoveringaddict is more mature, psychologically and emotionally, and is able to

relate with others with humor, altruism and hope (Chappel,1992:Khantzian and Mack,1989)

Many addicts attribute these changes to the protection andintervention of a Higher Power. They have a sense of being cared for

and caring.

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