現代人越來越多癮,在生活上我們都或多或小,已經被許多東西吸引著。 如電視癮、上網癮、電郵癮、打機癮、暴食癮,甚至有人是傳短訊傳上癮。
你有些甚麼癮呢?有些癮會讓生活失控,例如酒癮、暴食症,賭癮、工作狂、購物狂等,這樣的癮會使生活秩序大亂,危機重重。
美國有一個匿名酗酒者協會(Alcoholics Anonymous),在1970年代所創的12步驟療法。
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol(or drugs, sex, etc.) - that our lives had become unmanageable.
我們承認我們沒有辦法控制我們的酒癮(或是毒品,性,等等),我們已經控制不了自己的生活了
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
相信有一位比我們更有能力的主宰可以使我們復原
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
決定將我們的意念和生命交托給我們所認識的神
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
勇敢的回想並列出以前道德上的過失
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
向神,向我們自己,也向另一個人,詳細地承認我們過失的本質
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
已經預備好讓神來去除我們人格上的缺陷
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
謙卑的求神去除我們的短處
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
列出我們傷害過的人,並且願意與他們所有的人賠罪
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
如果可能,直接與我們傷害過的人賠罪,除非此舉會再度傷害他們或是別人
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
繼續列出我們所作過的錯事,當我們知道我們錯了我們要立即承認
11. 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.
靠著禱告和默想來與我們認識的神有更進一步的理智上的關係,只為知道祂在我們身上的旨意,還有能力去實行這個旨意出來而禱告
12. 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.
當我們的靈命因著作了這些步驟而覺醒了之後,我們試著去將這個信息也帶給其他有酒(毒,性)癮的人,並將所學得的原則應用在我們全面的生活上