GUIDE TO DOING THE FOURTH STEP

Fifth Santa Maria

This Guide is based on Chapter 5 of the AA Book.

For its development, parts of the following books were used:
Alcoholics Anonymous
A program for you (Edited by Hazelden)
Designed Guide of the Big Book (Edited by Hazelden)
Step 4 (Edited by Hazelden)

April, 2007
First Edition
 GUIDE TO DOING THE FOURTH STEP

What we really want is to be comfortable with ourselves.

We all thought we could achieve it with drug use and
alcohol. Sometimes it happened like this, but always for a short time, only
so that later a stronger contempt for ourselves would return.

It doesn't matter what our history has been, we generally start the
Twelve Steps program with doubts and denial.

Our denial appears in steps One, Two, and Three. We deny

that we were powerless against alcohol and drugs. We denied that our
life had become ungovernable. We denied that someone or something could be
superior to us and that we needed it. We deny the possibility of
depend on a Higher Power. We deny and resist.

By completing Steps One, Two, and Three, you have achieved great things.
progress. You have admitted that you have a problem; you have developed some
trust in a Higher Power and you are willing to accept the guidance or the
help from other people and from that Higher Power. You had to start
your life again leaving behind your closest friends: alcohol and
the substance.

The first Three Steps were the necessary preparation to reach the
Fourth Step.

In the Fourth Step, you will come face to face with yourself and you will see with
honesty is what has turned you into the person you are now. The
The Fourth Step consists of looking unflinchingly at who you have been.
you are and who you want to be in the future.

Fourth Step: Without fear, we did a meticulous moral inventory of

ourselves.

The Fourth Step is a cleaning of the house that we had never done.
attempted. The idea of a moral inventory means examining the goods
that we have stored, just like what happens when doing an inventory in
any business.

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 Although the decision to place our life and our will in the care
from a Higher Power was a fundamental and decisive step, its effect
permanent cannot be much, unless it is followed immediately
for an energetic effort to face what is within us and that
hindered our progress, so that we could later detach ourselves from
those obstacles. The alcohol and the drugs we consumed were nothing more than
a symptom; therefore, we have to look at the causes.

The Fourth Step promises the following benefits:

1.- Learn from honesty.

2.- Remove the power that the past has over us.
3.- Learn from humility.
4.- Lay the foundations for the next steps.

Learning from honesty.

In an overwhelming majority, addicts are liars. We lie about

the money, we lie for a dose, we lie for a drink; we lie to
to get out of a problem, we lie about the amount we consume; we lie
to be accepted by people. Lying became such a part of us, that
we ended up lying about stupid and unimportant things. We became
experts in lying to others, but also experts in lying to ourselves
same.

An inventory requires total honesty. You have probably already

made progress in honesty since you stopped consuming, and the
Fourth Step is a great opportunity to enhance this quality.

To make a completely honest inventory for ourselves, it returns

it's easier for us to be honest in the things of our daily lives.

Eliminate the power that the past has over us.

Many of us are very ashamed of our past,

provoked especially by our behavior when
we consumed. We feel a void in our stomach when we remember.

We repeat images in our brain of our behavior

past, which only serve to continue hurting ourselves. In much
measure, the past controls what we are now, because it seems not
we can get rid of him.

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 The personal inventory helps us let go of it. By putting our secrets
In writing, we do a cleaning. We may be surprised to see that many
the secrets that we considered terrible diminish significantly when
put them on paper. Above all, this is our first attempt to leave
behind us our past once and for all.

Learn humility.

Alcoholics and addicts, when we arrive at the program,

we thought that we were fine and that those who were wrong were the
others; or that we were wrong but that the others were worse, or something
similar.

The Fourth Step gives us the opportunity to review if this is true.

Can we come to have the humility to see that we participated in
the harm to other people or realizing that we have exaggerated.
We learn that humility brings us closer to the truth, and that the truth us.
about sobriety.

Laying the groundwork for the next steps.

It is difficult and not advisable to do the rest of the Program without having
completed a Fourth Step. The inventory provides us with elements of
a lot of usefulness to change our ways of acting and thinking,
allowing us to lead a fuller life.

In addition to the four benefits we have mentioned, there is one more.

lasting relief. We are beginning to change the distress and the
discontent, for the tranquility and peace. In this way, they increase
notably our chances of staying clean.

A personal inventory is a thorough search, fearless, with

regarding our moral values (the pursuit of truth about
ourselves). While the purpose of a commercial inventory is to find
the damaged or useless merchandise so that we can dispose of it quickly,
Without regret, the objective of a personal inventory lies in doing so
the same with our faulty thoughts, which produce
resentments, fear, and behaviors that harm others.

We have found that for almost any alcoholic or addict, these

deteriorated and useless thoughts fall within these three
categories:

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Resentments and anger.
2.- Fear.
3.- Guilt, remorse, and shame

Once your deteriorated thoughts have been removed and

useless, you will see that they were obstacles between your Higher Power and you, and that
Now you can begin to follow the will and guidance of your Higher Power.

Letting go of resentment.

Each one of us has felt resentment, but most of

we have never stopped to analyze our resentments. We have spent
a lot of time examining the damage that others have done to us;
we have gotten angry with people and even dedicated time to
think about how to get back at them. We have never really tried to
to examine our resentments or the causes that caused them, nor
we haven't thought about how to get rid of them either; on the contrary,
we cling to them.

Resentment is the number one offender. Therefore, it is crucial.

importance that you start focusing on resentment when you do your
personal inventory. If you can write down your resentments and examine them
Honestly, you will be closer to getting rid of them.

Resentment is destructive, because it means that persistently

we feel the old pain again: our anger, suffering, and indignation
from the past.

We do not deny that there are people who have hurt you. People,
some more than others, do things that hurt others. This is a fact
real. Life is not always simple and we do not know how to make those
things never happen again. As long as you are alive, you will occasionally go out
hurt.

But look at what we alcoholics and addicts do: every time we are
it's a pity, we cling to that pain and relive it over and over again. It's like
if we had a recorder inside our minds and curiously we do not
We use that recorder to record the good things that happen.
We only record painful things. That's why it's not surprising that,
when we turn on the machine and start listening to what we recorded,
All we hear are painful incidents.

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 One of the worst things that happens with resentment is that when
you are busy resenting someone or something, at that moment that
a person or that something is controlling your will and your life. You lose your
freedom and your Higher Power cannot act in your life.

WRITING AN INVENTORY OF YOUR RESENTMENTS

Take a sheet and write the list of people, institutions and

principles you are angry or upset with.

Write down each of your resentments and number them.

Start with the names of all the people you are with.
resentful, regardless of whether they are alive or dead. Make a serious effort to
include everyone, even if you are just upset with them. Write them all down, even though
there are many.

Then write down all the institutions you are resentful of: the
police, the government, the school, the church, or whatever.

Finally, write down all the principles you resent:

laws, norms, house rules, popular sayings, commandments, etc.

It may take you a while to make a list of people and things.

who are you resentful towards. That's fine. You might end up with several.
pages. The important thing is that your list is complete.

In appendix 'A' of this guide, you will find a list that may help you
help to check if you missed anything.

Sometimes it is difficult to start making this list. Many of

we had problems at the beginning when we started our
inventory. One of us started by saying: "Wow, I don't have
no resentment," but soon after, he could think of three or four,
then five or six and by the end, her list included more than a hundred people,
institutions and principles he was angry with. In fact,
we were upset with almost everything, but up until that moment we did not
We had noticed it.

Remember: this list only contains the names of the people

or things you are resentful about. When you finish the list, observe it. Give yourself
a story about how your resentments control the way you think and
act

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 During this process, you may feel anger or even rage. It is
It is convenient for you to use the group's platform to express it.

Now we are going to work with each of your resentments.

list.

Take another sheet apart, and write: "I am resentful with"

__________”.
In the blank space, write the name of the person that appears.
with the number one on your list. Below this, write the cause or the causes
that provoked this resentment, the situation and what happened.

After writing what caused this resentment, leave 3 or 4

blank lines, because we will return to this later
resentment.

Then continue with the second resentment. Do the same with

each of the resentments on your list until you finish it.

There may be people for whom you feel more than one resentment.
Write each of them, leaving the same blank space at the end.

By the end, you will have all your resentments and their causes.

When you have finished this part, put the pencil aside and review the
causes of each of your resentments.

If you're like most of us, you'll notice something surprising. You

you will realize that you are upset with almost all of these people, institutions
and principles, not so much because of what they are, but because of what they did to you.
What bothered you were not the people, the institutions, or the principles.
What bothered you was what they did to you.

Our resentment arose because the event affected some of the

sensitive areas of our lives. These areas can be: my needs
of belonging and social acceptance; my need to be loved or for that
have considerations for me; my need for security
economic and my need for sexual relations (both acceptable and
hidden).

Somehow, these needs were threatened by the

incident that provoked my resentment. In almost all cases, we have

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found that one or more of these basic areas of our lives,
including our ambitions, have been affected in some way or
another.

Next we will make a list of these areas to help us

continue with the inventory work.

The areas we will work on are the following:

1.- Self-love (how we feel about ourselves;

self-esteem
2.- Pride
3.- Personal relationships
4.- Material security (economic and physical)
5.- Emotional security (feeling loved)
6.- Acceptable sexual relations
7.- Unacceptable sexual relations
8.-Ambitions

Copy this list onto a separate sheet to use it for what

Let's do it next.

Go back to the pages where you wrote down each resentment and its cause.

Write below each cause (in the space you left blank) the
area of your life that was threatened. Take the corresponding area of the
list of eight areas that you wrote separately.

After completing this part, put down the pencil and take a rest.
little.

With what you have done so far, we can realize several

things.

When making the list, we saw that resentment and anger really affect us.
they controlled. When writing the cause, we saw that we were not angry or
resentful with people, institutions, or principles, but rather with the
what they had done to us. Finally, we have learned that we got angry
because one of our instinctive needs is threatened.

We still need to keep working on our resentments.

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 Now stop. Reread what you wrote. Clearing your mind
the mistakes that others have made, examine what you did to
to cause, or to worsen each of the situations that you
They produced resentment. How did you contribute to the problem? In each
Were you selfish, dishonest, inconsiderate, or fearful?

It is very easy to simply blame other people, institutions or

principles of everything that happens to us. Likewise, it is easy to excuse our
own guilt saying: 'They are to blame for everything'. Upon throwing it
We blame everything on someone or something, avoiding to examine our own behavior.
and we also avoid admitting: "Well, actually I wasn't just a poor
victim... I also had to see something in the matter.

Of course there are exceptions to this. In no way were we

responsible for any sexual abuse we may have been subjected to
victims, both in our childhood and in our adult life.

Sometimes we act selfishly, which causes problems.

for others; they in turn take it out on us, and cause us problems
also. The resentment we feel towards others causes us to
let's distort what really happened. This way we cover up the
what we did and the true cause that could have originated the entire process.
When we relive the incident in our minds, the other person appears
worse and worse, and we look better and better. We become
innocent victims within our mind, instead of admitting
honestly, we contribute to this situation. In some cases,
We discovered that we were actually the initiators of the problem.

You will see that in most situations you were, at least in

part, responsible for what happened. This means that we all play
a role in most of our resentments.

Now we suggest that you review each of your

resentments.

For a moment, ignore what other people, institutions or

principles shaped you; rather, try to remember exactly the role that
you played in every situation. How did you cause the problem, or how
Did you worsen any existing problems?

Reflect on something you have done to cause a problem.

to someone who later took it out on you. Do it without fear and be thorough.
and honest.

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 Examine each situation in your inventory and briefly describe which
it was your participation or your reaction and upon discovering that you had something to do with
She, ask yourself what your reason was. Were you selfish, dishonest, fearful or
disregarded? Perhaps you were motivated by one or two of these flaws or
maybe for everyone.

We have noticed that all human beings have four flaws.

of common character:

1.- Selfishness
2.- Dishonesty
3.- Fear
4.- Disregard

Now review your inventory of resentments, causes, and areas.

affected. In the remaining blank space, write which one or ones of the
Previous attitudes were what motivated you in each situation. Do it.
taking one by one, until finishing with all the resentments of your
list.

At the end, take a break and check your inventory of

complete resentments.

Regarding resentments, we have learned several things: we saw

that resentment controlled us; that we felt resentment for what
what they did to us and not to the people; that we got angry because
we feel threatened in some of the vital areas; finally, we learned
that in most cases we had some participation in what
it happened.

Well then. We have understood that we must overcome our

resentments. But how to do it? We can't do it with just
to wish it, as we could not do in the case of alcohol or others
drugs.

The people who offended you may have problems, they, like
we ourselves may be emotionally and spiritually sick.
You can ask your Higher Power to help you have the same tolerance.
and the patience you would have with a sick companion.

We suggest that you pray for the person you resent. It is possible that
this may not be very easy for you, and of course it is not something you want to do.

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Remember that recovery means the destruction of egocentrism. The
the only reason you find it difficult to pray for someone you are with
resentful, it's that your egocentrism is preventing you from doing it.

Although it may seem that praying for someone you are resentful towards is the
the most difficult in the world, it will be more beneficial for you to pray for someone you do not
soportas, to get drunk or to get high because of that resentment.

It is possible that this method may seem strange or even ridiculous to you.
At first, it may be difficult for you to do it in the first few days. Perhaps not.
you know who to pray to, or maybe you are not even sure if there is a Power
Superior does exist in reality. All of this does not matter. Do it anyway.
ways, try it for a while, even if you don't feel or think that
it can yield results.

With this, you have finished the inventory of the first item.
deteriorated that you had stored in your business: resentment.

Getting rid of fears

Some fears are healthy and have protected us from certain dangers.
However, other fears stop us or paralyze us, blocking
our progress towards goals we wish to achieve.

Fear can prevent us from changing our lives. We come to think

what is preferable or more comfortable living in deplorable conditions than
change towards something we do not know. By identifying our fears
we will be able to choose which of them we want to face.

Most alcoholics and addicts are deeply affected.

affected by fear. In fact, fear touches in one way or another almost
all aspects of our lives.

MAKING AN INVENTORY OF OUR FEARS

The best way to deal with your fears is by doing exactly

what you did with your resentments: Write them down, analyze them, try to see
Which part of your vital needs was affected by those threats?
real or supposed and if there was any participation on your part in the formation of
that fear.

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 Now take a new sheet of paper and write a list of things or
people who provoke fear in you.

Think about all the types of fears we have: physical, mental,

emotional, economic; fear of death, fear of failure, fear of
unknown, fear of the dark; fear of someone abandoning you, to the
solitude; to poverty; fear of the godfather, fear of relapse; fear of the police,
to the authorities, to criticism; fear of your dad, of work, or any other
fear that comes to your mind. These are some examples, but you must
find your own fears and make a numbered list of each one
they.

Most people do not realize how many fears they have.

We also do not realize the power these fears have over us.
our thoughts and our life, until we write them down on a sheet
of paper.
You may have five, or twenty or even more than a hundred fears.
Write them all down. Use as many pages as you need to include them.
all.

In annex "B" of this guide, you will find a list that can help you.
help to check if you are missing something.

Now let's do the same thing we did with the resentments.

Take each of your fears and write on a sheet what it is that you
it is scary, or the situations in which this fear arises. Upon finishing,
leave a space of 3 or 4 lines, because we are going to continue working with
each fear.

Remember: first we write down the fear (what we are afraid of) and
below him we write the cause. In the end, you will have written, on several pages,
fears and their causes.

When finished, drop the pencil and rest.

Observe the amount of fears that have accumulated in your life and the
power they have gained over you.

Now we return to the blank lines that we left under each one.
of our fears. Remember the basic areas or your needs
primordial. Which ones do you think have been threatened, in the case of
each of your fears? The basic areas are the same as those you used in

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the work with your resentments that you wrote on a separate sheet and that
son

Self-love (how we feel about ourselves; self-esteem)

2.- Pride
3.- Personal relationships
4.- Material security (economic and physical)
5.- Emotional security (feeling loved)
6.- Acceptable sexual relationships
7.- Unacceptable sexual relations
8.-Ambitions

In the space you left blank, below each fear, write

Now which essential area of your life feels threatened by that person?
or something you fear.

Once you have finished filling out this part, go back to the beginning.
from your inventory of fears.

Just as you did with your resentments, review your list once again,
a fear at a time. Now, forget what other people or things could have
have done to provoke that fear in you. Instead, analyze what
you could have done to harm or threaten each of the things or the
people who scare you. What did you do for them to want to get back at you
with you? A list of these attitudes is:

1.- Was I selfish?

2.- Was I dishonest?
Did I feel scared?
4.- Was I inconsiderate?

Write below each fear, what was your attitude or participation in it.
origin of that particular fear. It is possible that in some cases not
you find an explanation or your contribution so that this fear is
I don't know what my was.
participation.

Now review the entire inventory of your fears. You will see that they resemble
the resentments. They are enormous, threatening, powerful and
extremely real when they are inside your head, but
when you write them down on paper and look at them, many of them seem silly
the ridiculous.

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 But some of them can stay. It is not possible to do
make a fear disappear with willpower. Now that we have
develop a certain trust in our Higher Power we can
to approach Him to humbly ask for His help to overcome the
fear. This works with fears that appear suddenly, just like
with the fear that accompanies us all the time.

As soon as you start praying to your Higher Power, you begin to overcome the
fear. The results are immediate.

With this we will have finished the inventory of the second item.
deteriorated that we had stored in our business: fear.

Getting rid of guilt, remorse, and shame

During the work you have done so far, you have found
information about yourself that has allowed you to lighten your feelings of
guilt, remorse, and shame. However, there is a specific area
that is related to these feelings and deserves attention
special. We now propose to take an inventory of the damages that
we have done with our sexual behavior.

Sex is something natural for all living beings. However, sometimes

Human beings use sex to hurt others.
Unfortunately, sex can be used to harm other people
faster, easier, and more profoundly than almost anything else. The
AA program does not set guidelines regarding sex, nor does it tell you what it is.
sexually acceptable or not. What it does do is give you a way to review
your past sexual life, to see if in any way you harmed others
with her.

You must have realized that the purpose of taking an inventory is not
It consists of trying to find out who has hurt you. Remember that of
in no way are we responsible for any sexual abuse of which
we may have been victims in our childhood or in our adult life. You
the purpose is to discover whom you have harmed or threatened, in what
how did you harm or threaten someone and why did you do it.

TAKING INVENTORY OF MY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR

For this purpose, we will work in the same way we work

when we write our inventories of resentments and fears.
Write a numbered list of the people who have been harmed.

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with your sexual behavior. Make a conscious effort. Don't stop writing.
the name of no person who has been affected.

Now take a sheet of paper and first write the name of the affected person.
and briefly write what you did.

After finishing writing what happened, leave a space of 3 or 4 lines.

which we will use later. Do it with each of the people on the list.

There are many different types of acts that may deserve to be

included in this part. Obviously, you can hurt a person
having sex with her, or having sex with someone else, instead of
her. But you can also hurt people with your demands. Perhaps
you ignored the wishes and preferences of the person you had
relationships, insisting that I had sex with you, under your conditions.
Perhaps you imposed your will violently. Or maybe you hurt the
a person with whom you had a relationship, showing coldness and lack of interest,
avoiding sex to punish her. Perhaps you have provoked jealousy
intentionally. Perhaps you had relationships without considering the
possibility of infecting others with a sexually transmitted disease
transmissible. Or maybe you used sex to get alcohol or substances,
regardless of the consequences of that act. These are just a few
examples. The important thing is that you review your past and write down all the
actions that come to mind, with which you have harmed others through your
sexual behavior.

As we did in the previous two inventories, write now, in

In each case, what was the basic need you were looking to satisfy? Rarely.
we feel sexual excitement only; generally, it is combined with others
impulses. Occasionally, the cause of a problem is due to mere
sexual arousal, but if you carefully review your past, you will see that in the
In most cases, you were looking for something more than just sex. You were
trying to feel proud of yourself, to boost your self-esteem, or to satisfy your
wishes to feel loved or cared for; you were trying to obtain some benefit
material, or to be recognized and accepted.

You will remember the basic needs. For the sexual inventory we will use
five of them:

1.- Self-love (how we feel about ourselves; self-esteem)

2.- Pride
3.- Personal relationships (prestige, recognition)
4.- Material security (economic)

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5.- Emotional security (need to be loved)

All human beings need a healthy self-esteem, a

certain degree of material security, emotional security, and relationships
interpersonal. The problem arises when your desire to satisfy these
Basic needs cause you to hurt others.

For example, many of us use sex to enhance our

self-esteem. We feel better and more powerful when attracting or having sex
with many people. The problem is that during the process of feeling
better and more powerful, we hurt those other people. Sex is part
of the problem, but it is not the cause.

Go back to the pages where you wrote down one by one the people to whom
you harmed and what you did to them. Now write which of your basic needs
you were looking to satisfy yourself using sex.

Now we ask you to review once again what you wrote about your
sexual conduct. Then, write in each case if you were:

Selfish
Dishonest
3.- Cowardly
4.- Disregarded
5.- Other (any other not listed)
6.- A combination of several

Now, put down the pencil. Read again what you wrote. Try to recognize
that your sexual instinct is not always the cause of your sexual problems.
most of the time, the causes are selfishness, dishonesty, the
fear, and inconsideration, any other character flaw like these, or
the combination of several.

When these character defects guide our actions, seeking the

self-esteem, personal relationships, material security, security
emotional or the satisfaction of your ambitions, we end up causing
pain and difficulties to others, as well as to ourselves. It is possible
that you have used your sexuality to achieve these goals, but the
Sexuality is not the source of your problems.

When doing our sexual inventory, we realize our

conduct regarding sex, and we understand that sexuality was not the
cause of our problems. Immediately, we feel better.

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We believed that our sexual urges dominated us and were abnormal.
For that reason, we felt guilty, restless, irritable, and discontent.

But when we look at our inventories and discover the way in which
that we had acted, that is, using our sexuality to achieve
other goals, then our sexual urges no longer seemed to be so
powerful and we no longer feel so abnormal. We also realized
that our selfishness, dishonesty, fear, and inconsideration lead us
they controlled much more than our natural sexual instinct.

Upon discovering this, our sexual problems began to decrease.

immediately. The desire to keep doing the same things and to create
more problems were reduced. Our shame, guilt, and remorse
they started to disappear. And we no longer felt so restless, irritable and
discontent regarding sex.

With this, you have completed your sexual behavior inventory, and you can
remove from the warehouse these other damaged products: the blame, the
remorse and shame regarding sex.

You have already made three personal inventories: one about your resentments,
another about your fears, and another one about your sexual behavior. In these
inventories, you have noted all the people, institutions, and principles to the
that you have hurt or threatened in your life. However, it is possible that you still
There are people, institutions, or principles that you have affected.
problems in ways that have little or nothing to do with your fears,
resentments or sexual behavior.

MAKING A MISCELLANEOUS INVENTORY

To complete your Fourth Step, you will need to do a final inventory.

You can name it 'miscellaneous inventory'.

Include in it all those people, institutions, or principles to which

has hurt or threatened in your life and that you have not included in any
from your three previous inventories.

Prepare this miscellaneous inventory just like you did with the other three.

First, make the numbered list of the people, institutions or

principles that you have damaged and that do not appear in the inventories
previous.

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 Then, write on a sheet each of those harmed individuals and
Write down what you did to hurt her. Then, go back to these sheets and note the
basic areas of your life that were threatened or harmed, that is,
that which led you to do what you did. Remember that the eight areas
basic are:

1.- Self-love (how we feel about ourselves; self-esteem)

2.- Pride
3.- Personal relationships
4.- Material safety (physical and economic)
5.- Emotional security (feeling loved)
Acceptable sexual relations
7.- Hidden sexual relationships
8.-Ambitions.

Finally, return to the sheets and write down the defects for each case of
character that led you to harm.

Selfishness
2.- Dishonesty
3.- Fear
4.- Disregard.

By completing this miscellaneous inventory, you have finished writing your Fourth.
Step.

Put down the pencil for the last time. Stop and analyze what you have written.
Try to notice what the basic areas of your life are that appear.
more frequently in your inventory and also the character defects
most repeated. You will see that by trying to meet your needs or
basic instincts were that you caused the suffering of yourself and of those who
You damaged. Also pay attention to the most common character defects.
These had a lot to do with your way of drinking or using drugs.

Concluding your Fourth Step you have given yourself an important gift of
awareness, for your recovery. We celebrate with you the effort you have made.
done. By joining an AA group you must continue your path
it was a useful and happy life. There you will find what you need to continue.
knowing and the tools that allow you to change your judgments and
attitudes and repair the damage caused.
We pray and ask God:

LORD, REMOVE FROM ME WHAT SEPARATES ME FROM YOU.

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 ANNEX "A"

The lists of these annexes were copied from the guide

from the fourth step of the 24-hour Intensive Therapy groups.

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 LIST THAT HELPS YOU CHECK PEOPLE,
INSTITUTIONS OR PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH YOU COULD
TO BE RESENTFUL

My mother The police

My father My country
My stepmother My friend
My stepfather My co-godmother
My wife Determined authority
My husband The religion
My ex-wife The priests
My ex-husband Alcohol
My child(ren) Every spiritual idea
My daughter(s) With God
My grandparents Some professional
My siblings Some private institution
My half brother(s) Homosexuals
My sister(s)-in-law The society of A.A.
My brother(s)-in-law My group of A:A.
My uncle(s) My A.A. companion(s)
My aunt(s) Other A.A. groups
My cousin(s) Politics
My cousin(s) Some politician
My father-in-law Some political doctrine
My mother-in-law My ex-lover
Consanguineous relatives My profession
Political relatives My studies
A friend(s) My neighbor(s)
A friend(s) My teacher(s)
My boyfriend(girlfriend) The government
My ex-boyfriend(ex-girlfriend)

My lover

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LIST THAT HELPS YOU CHECK PEOPLE

INSTITUTIONS OR THINGS THAT MIGHT CAUSE YOU

TERROR.

To poverty To get to know me

To death Not reaching my goals
To the disease To lose the job
To solitude To lose material goods
To failure To make decisions
To the rejection To work
To sexual impotence To the scoldings
To God To the agents
To responsibility To the police
Into the darkness Also thieves
To the supernatural To the services
To drink again That they speak badly of me
To the unknown Procreate deformed children
To the opposite sex To the gossip
To the wife To anger
To make a fool of oneself To Madness
To insomnia To the threats
To hell To the future
To witchcraft To old age
Surgical operations To express my feelings
To the lovers To be discovered
To drug addicts To jail
To the A.A. fellows To give money
To punishment To success
To the animals To the critic
To express myself in public To therapy
To the authorities To become independent
The Godfather To the fourth step
To the accidents To the taxes
To violence To kidnappings
To infidelity To the children
To reality To the A.A groups
To the institutions To the drunks
To suffering
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