2nd Step
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ScribdTranslations"We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Working on the second step
In working the second step, alcoholics realize that they lack sound judgment and many here
They have problems because many are not religious, and in this regard, the alternative that the program offers them.
Of the twelve steps, it is to obtain that sound judgment through a Higher Power.
Many alcoholics resent the fact that during the first step they accepted their addiction and that their
lives are ungovernable.
This frustrates them now that they must accept that their health does not depend on them and that only if God...
help can control alcoholism.
Many wonder what they are going to do since they are atheists and have no idea how they are going to get out.
in a hurry.
The twelve steps is not a religious group
Although Alcoholics Anonymous groups do not force people to do anything, they suggest that in order to achieve
to achieve and maintain sobriety, they must turn to a Higher Power to help them control their desires for
to consume alcohol.
The alcoholic, with the help of the sponsor, comes to understand that he is vulnerable to falling into the temptation of
To take it again, because if one does not cling to a Higher Power, one will not be able to overcome addiction.
That's where many non-believers identify with the Higher Being, not in a spiritual way or
religious but rather identifying that power in the group of the twelve steps.
They begin to see the group as the light of hope for them and some of those who were resistant to
believe in that Higher Power that will help you stay sober, start having faith by seeing your
lives transformed suddenly into something they could never achieve.
However, those who have lost faith find it harder to accept the twelve-step program of AA.
Even more than those who have never had, for those who lost their faith have strayed from the paths to
religious groups, bitter, disappointed and resist to enlist again in the ranks of the
believing people.
Intellectuals resist more than non-intellectuals.
Other people who have problems in the second step are very intellectual people because they
they feel above others.
The twelve-step program hurts their ego and they feel that they do not belong to that group and many
They are so proud that they do not accept that a Higher Power can help them.
Some psychiatrists have said that the rebellious personality of alcoholics does not help them to
accept this second step.
Many of them intend to challenge God himself.
The AA group helps alcoholics understand that their rebellion will not help them.
recovery.
That's where the alcoholic makes resolutions to quit drinking for good and humbly accepts.
that they need from that Superior Power to overcome their weaknesses.
They put their house in order and become humble people and realize that they never did before.
they had a relationship with God, they only practiced religion in a superficial way.
Therefore, the second step is very important for atheists because atheists, agnostics, and former believers...
unite in one spirit in this step.
Everyone in a shared feeling experienced humility and vulnerability and are convinced that they
They alone cannot get ahead unless they appeal to the Higher Power no matter how they perceive it.
Who is that Higher Power that will help them maintain that sound judgment.