The steps helped each of the cofounders of aa in their own recovery from alcoholism and have continued to help countless. A download site for the big book awakening and other big book related tools. Like the resentment inventory, we will list our fears. Here we find human opinions running to extremes absurd extremes, perhaps.
There is a difference in an awakening and an understanding. Look at the 3rd column and consider the opposite of each sentence to let the inventory reveal your fears hehind each of the seven areas of self. In the resentment inventory, dont write across, do it in columns, i. Fears in big book alcoholics anonymous, 12 steps and 12. How it works 61 his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great. You will need the big book of alcoholics anonymous large print or hard. There doesnt appear to be any big book stories that talk about turnarounds when describing their step work. Step 4 big book step study step 4 turnarounds hi, im looking for replies from those who have done step 4 exactly as it is written in the big book. Step 12 is having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps. Alcoholics anonymous quotes showing of 127 and acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. Step 12 is having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps first experience the awakening. See all 6 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Big book sexual inventory page 69 recovery farmhouse.
Read and highlight the doctors opinion xxvxxxii in the big book alcoholics anonymous. Big book awakening for use with alcoholics anonymous. Incorporated centering prayer into my daily intentional consciousness practice in 1990. Jennifer a on experience the big book aa meetings available online. Read and highlight big book instructions on step eleven prayer and meditation pages 8588. We are all sad to have lost him, however the world was made a better place, for having had him. On awakening let us think about the twentyfour hours ahead. The symptoms of spiritual awakening set aside prayer 12step prayers index for the big book. Fear and anger are said to be primal, protective emotions. Also featuring a comprehensive inventory tool which allows you to create your step 4 and your step 10 inventory. Fear, anger, and resentment cause the alcoholic and probably everyone else the most trouble. It contains an article i wrote for those who need god, as you understand him. The 164 and more book, ebook, and web site are all concordances which display passages from the big book alcoholics anonymous, the twelve steps and twelve traditions, and the a.
That comes from following the precise instructions in the big book as you take the 12 steps then, seek to better understand what you experienced in the awakening. For more information please read dear recovery community. Big book awakening 4th step workshop resentment examples and worksheets 122006 columns 14 to download the most current versions of these worksheets go to. Aa speakers surrender to spiritual awakening duration. Here is a list of fears that may be helpful in your fear inventory. It also includes an exercise to help overcome resentments beyond merely writing them down. Experience the big book aa meetings available online.
See origins of aas 4th step moral inventory it is not mentioned in the big book text at any point. Aa the original way 12 step guide aa the original way group. Read the big book, page 67, last paragraph through first paragraph on page 68. We want to discover the attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, fears, actions, behaviors, and the behavior patterns that. The big books directions for taking all twelve steps. Taken through the big book steps in 1988 and had a profound spiritual awakening. Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. You will need to print several resentment inventory blank sheets, 46 fear inventory grids pick a format you like.
Clearly, there is no historical references that we can find to anything called turnarounds from the founders or pioneers of aa. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. When ready have your sponsee write their inventory for resentments, fears, sex conduct and all other harms. Step 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. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all god gave us brains to. Mike on experience the big book aa meetings available online. Character defects are the primary subject of our inventory and the activities connected with it in steps 4 through 10. Another tool is the night time inventory as suggested in step 11 of the alcoholics anonymous program. Step 4 aa learn how to do the 4th step inventory in the 12 steps of alcoholics. Step four instructions made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves a stop set aside prayer. As a result of the application of the twelve steps as contained precisely in the big book of alcoholics anonymous, he experienced a profound spiritual awakening in 1988. Before we begin, we ask god to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from selfpity, dishonest or selfseeking motives.
These meetings can be accessed go to thought and click on read more for how to accessfor free via computer, tablets and mobile devices, and also by telephone by calling the. Directions for taking step 5 are listed on page 75, paragraph 1, lines 18 and paragraph 2, lines 12. Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and more concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either. They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear. Step ten suggests we continue to take personal inventorystep 4 and continue to set right any new mistakes steps 8,9 as we go along.
We have laid out the 4 th step inventory here so that it follows the big book. They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock. Look at the 3rd column and consider the opposite of each sentence to let the inventory reveal your fears behind each of. Look at each relationship and answer these nine questions ref p.
The big book adventure in a how to workshop for experiencing the steps as a way of life with dave f. You can create different inventories based on the big book style resentment, fear, sex and harms done. Then we will list what part of ourselves, selfreliance, has failed. Twelve steps to spiritual awakening workshop 2019 revised 01012019 assignment 3 step one. Alcoholics anonymous quotes by alcoholics anonymous. Mix play all mix odomtology 12step recovery media youtube john k. But above all, we tried to be sensible on this question. When ready meet with your sponsee to hear their inventory. A list of materials necessary to work the big awakening step study program. Began a consistent, daily practice of meditation based on step 11 in 1989. Big book awakening for use with alcoholics anonymous fourth edition big book paperback january 1, 2006 by dan sherman author 4. When i am disturbed, it is because i find some person, place, thing, or situation some fact of my life unacceptable to me, and i can find no serenity until i accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is.
Step 4 fear inventory form the big book authors indicate that the best way to deal with our fears is to do exactly what we did with resentments. Awakening we believe is the correct word because it. Alcoholics anonymous is often referred to as a 12step program, and aa is the basis for many other 12step programs that have been established. By writing first, then doing the 5 th step we can look at resentment, fear and harm individually, the way it says in the big book. It is for this reason that the big book suggests we start our 4th step inventory by examining these emotions. Fear list boxes fear supplement list page 30 29 harms list boxes harms supplement list page 32 31. Ask for help with inventory and truth in the morning, night and before writing with a prayer. These 12 steps are outlined in chapter 5, how it works, of the big book. We put them on paper, even though we had no resentment in connection with them. Big book step study step 4 turnarounds soberrecovery. Directions for taking step 4 are listed on page 64, paragraphs 1 and 2. I am getting stuck on understanding my turnarounds, especially the selfseeking.
Notwithstanding the great necessity for discussing. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Ask for help with inventory and truth in the morning, night and before writing with a prayer like this one taken from the big book. On april 14, 2016, dan sherman, the author of big book awakening lost his battle with cancer. Resentment, columns 14, fear, sex, and sexual ideal. You do not need to print any of the following step materials until you are instructed to do so. Due to the covid19 pandemic, the experience the big book meetings will be accessible online as zoom video conferences, starting sunday, march 22, 2020 at 6pm central time. When the word optional is used in the worksheets, it means that the big book suggests doing this but does not suggest writing.