The 12 Steps...revised for 2012* by swami armandananda

1. We admitted we were powerless over our compulsions and our lives had become insane.**
2. Came to believe that a higher power could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this higher power as we understood it.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves, our thoughts and our behaviours.
5. Admitted to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our insane thoughts and behaviours.
6. Were entirely ready to forgive ourselves fully for these insane thoughts and behaviours.
7. Humbly invited our higher power to replace these thoughts and behaviours with new higher power inspired thoughts and behaviours.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such persons wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we erred, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through stillness and/or meditation to improve our conscious contact with our higher power, as we understood it, asking only for knowledge of its will for us and the wisdom to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, agreed to carry this message to others desiring freedom from compulsive thought and behaviour and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

* ...these revisions are not in any way endorsed by AA or any other anonymous program.
**insane-lack of soundness of body and mind. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.