Thanks for posting the original AA 12 step program. Your quite right, Parkies are not of the same mind set as an alcoholic going through recovery. Alcoholics are much more entrenched in a lifestyle of their own making and can be so belligerent that any little word can upset their apple cart.

What Parkies need is just a set of guidelines to help pull them out of a black hole they fell into, and certainly not one they dug themselves. I have put a copy of this post in my word processing program and I'll play with it. I'll waitt a bit and see if anyone has any suggestions first though.

I liked the list of promises that was at the end. They were worth a second consideration and went quite well with my 12 step for PWP's.

Jaye...I think your back to holding the record for shortest post once again.
Always appreciate your endorsement

For strength: scroll down to you tube video on this webpage

http://www.keepthefaith1296.com/index.htm

paula

While I think of myself as addicted to PD drugs, it is not the same addiction pattern as those of alcoholism, et al. However, I feel that it's not right to compare ordeals and make the judgment that alcoholics are necessarily worse people because it seems they could have chosen better behavior. Many people are thought to have a particular genetic makeup that is different than others and makes them physically susceptible to alcoholic addiction in a way that I know I am not.

That said, Rosebud, Steve, all you guys, what a lovely idea about forming a helpful mental/emotional protocol to follow. I responded by - without thinking about it too long - listing my version:

1. I accept that love is stronger than death and fear.

2. I accept that life and the universe hold infinite possibilities and ways of healing.

3 I accept that somehow my body has become oriented to a biochemical fault pattern of some sort.

4. I accept that people, possibly including myself, have placed a particular judgment on my body and its future which may or may not have validity.

5. I accept that my course through this process is unique.

6. I accept that the reasons for my condition are as yet unknown, and could include environmental factors and/or inner emotional elements.

7. I accept that the medical world may not always have my best interests at heart.

8. I accept that I have to carry or actively disassociate myself not only from my own fears but those of the people around me.

9. I accept that healing is possible and that my body's nature is to want to heal, although the path to that healing may not yet be visible, but that my body holds absolute divinity within it.

10. I accept that others are suffering more than I am.

11. I accept that I will have times of weakness or sadness, but that the seeds of the opposite and change are always present in every situation.

12. I accept that the path to healing demands that I discipline myself to staying open to its possiblity, to understand that I cannot dictate its shape or the emotional outcome of my journey, and to accept that its meaning is as yet unrevealed but reflects my innate participation in the divine.

I would be happy to take 12 steps without stumbling or shuffeling my feet

Your twelve principles of acceptance are beautiful. We definitely need to refine our thinking and produce a document that we can read and ponder when we find ourselves feeling alone, or in any other way burdened by our load. Maybe even a small hand book of comfort and a reminder that there is hope.
Thank you for your thoughts and feedback.

Sorry Greg. the shuffle is our official dancestep!

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.