A.A. gives us thirty-six Principles which, when practiced in all our affairs as a way of life, will enrich our lives far beyond our fondest dreams. These thirty-six Principles are grouped into three sets of twelve each. The Twelve Steps of Recovery awaken us to a Higher Power, a higher self with the ability to both give and receive love. The Twelve Concepts of Service are guidelines and tools for our passing on this love through Service. The Twelve Traditions teach us how to relate lovingly to others, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

What is a Transformation Cycle? How does it work? What’s in it for me? As spiritual beings in a human experience/condition we pass through many different types of cycles at every level. In each of these there is some growth and some transformation, however the Spiritual Transformation Cycle is far more intense. It gives a profound meaning to the idea that we must die to be re-born.

The purpose of this Promises’ Inventory is much like the Growth Questionnaire that is to help determine how much change and/or growth you have experienced since coming into the Program. The following are some one hundred and twenty five promises from the first 164 pages of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, reprinted with permission. Most of us begin to receive some of the promises as soon as we enter a Twelve Step Program.

A JOURNEY INWARD - This Growth Questionnaire is not intended to give us reason to resent our past. Hopefully, the working through this will offer us some information and insight that can improve our present and future. This questionnaire is a journey inward not backward. AM I GROWING? After we have lived this Twelve Step Program way of life for a while, the best we can and have experienced some healing from one or more of our primary defects we may believe or wishfully think and feel that we will never repeat or express th

“Now about sex. Many of us need an overhauling there. But above all, we tried to be sensible on this question. It’s so easy to get way off the track. Here we find human opinions running to extremes-absurd extreme, perhaps. We all have sex problems we’d hardly be human if we didn’t.” What can we do about them? (Alcoholics Anonymous reprinted with permission)Well that’s one to the questions the following inventory will address. However, a more important question is what are we willing or able to do about all of our relationships? We have found if we changed our point of reference from sex or

God, our Higher Power is the only subject that more songs, stories, books and poems are written and talked about than love. You would think that everything that can be said has been, however that which is infinite can never be exhausted. As an attribute of God, love is infinite with a great many agents, channels, and forms but these will not or cannot add up to the infinite whole. At the human conditional level we could be ever expanding.

Are you addicted to being moody?