Understanding The 12 Steps - Why Do They Work?

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Alright.
The 12 Steps work because… they remove the obsession to drink and use
drugs.
And allow me to be sober and content at the same time.
They lead you to have a spiritual experience.
And to have a… personality transformation.
The 12 Steps, um, acknowledge the super-ordinate value of spirituality,
for human well-being.
They offer me a solution to me and my problems, rather than offering me, you know, a Band-Aid.
They connect you, also to others.
And they – you develop a community.
They bring the – the addict to confront powerlessness.
Everybody I've seen who follows the directions in the book
gets sober and stays sober for the rest of their lives.
The 12 Steps are a solution for anybody who's ready, uh, and willing.
The only people who can't get better in the Steps are the ones
who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
It forced me to take a look at myself, and just stop pointing my finger at others.
Everything after that is an instruction set, if you well, or a design for living.
The instructions are the same, but the experience is their own.
The bring a spiritual dimension into… the treatment world that's a – nothing
else does.
You know, everything that we have now seems to be treating a symptom
to a problem, but never actually eradicating the problem.
You know, drugs aren't the problem, selfishness and self-centeredness is the problem.
That's the root of my troubles, and that's what I'm trying to… be rid of.
A lot of other… uh, treatments or approaches for recovery
leave individuals in a – in a state of – of, like… chronic fragility.
You know?
Like, I'm always, uh – at – avoiding people, places and things,
that could "trigger" me.
Part of what we're trying to do at [Granite Recovery Centers]
is get the word out that there are recovered opiate addicts…
we're numerically significant, our numbers are growing.
And we're not taking drugs.
We are abstinence based.
And what the Steps do is they show me how to live another way of life.
It's an entire change in your way of… being.
Entirely new way of living.
You know, only the First Step even mentions alcohol.
It's an awareness exercise.
And it takes a lot of action.
And through this I learned that I was really the creator of all my problems.
The hard work puts me in a position where I'm not
suffering from the obsession to drink or use anymore.
And I think it's that transformative experience that is what…
makes it so powerful.
If I… am sober and work these 12 Steps I'm freed from the mental obsession to get
high.
But it doesn't work the other way around.
I've gotta take the action to have the experience.
I don't get to have the experience and then take the action.
You don't see better outcomes than you do with the 12 Steps in the world
of treatment.

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Understanding The 12 Steps - Why Do They Work?

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