The second step asserts that the person needs to believe in a higher power or hope. Many critics of the 12 step program assert that the system is too religious in nature. And the third step is contends that the person needs to turn his life over to God or Faith.

The next three levels involve letting go, humility and forgiveness or we can say it apologizing and making amends for the wrongs which individual had committed. From there, the tenth level continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it and the eleventh step sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. The twelfth level of the 12 step program which is the last step, promises that 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 to spread the word of his success.

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