Chances are, if you’re alive – things are going to happen out there in the world that really set you back. We can’t control the events of our lives. We can’t control other people. We are powerless.
This very powerful concept is based upon the realisation our own human limitations, that we cannot manage life by ourselves. It is a moving to a self-conviction that without a power in my life, then I am powerless. Step one brings us to an acceptance that without God in my life I am shallow, weak, artificial, self-seeking, egocentric and lacking all sense of spiritual depth or true peace. I am indeed like a spring that is dried up, like a barren desert where life and growth are unable to take root and that I am living a life based on ‘me and my ego’, rather than based on ‘me and my God’. If we believe that we are the source of our own power, as many do, then there is no room in us for a power greater than ourselves – for God. The realisation which this step brings, while perhaps frightening and difficult to acknowledge, is the beginning and basis of true growth, of a true relationship with God, self and others.
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SBR: Powerlessness! It is a simple concept. However, experience is that many people only give lip service to this concept. 
We admitted we were powerless, and that our lives had become unmanageable. 
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. 
Evolutionary 12 Steps, We admitted we were powerless over our addictions - that our lives had become unmanagable due to our brain dysfunction. 
SHAME , AA is really about making you free to act effectively. 
In step one we learned the principle of honesty. 
Alcoholics Anonymous added an off-ramp to the 12-step road to recovery 
dry drunk alcoholics awaken to this irony that they, still unmanageable, still powerless, are the ones who have made this remarkable "recovery," they may feel sufficiently mortified to want to change. 
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