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Step Five: This vital step will break down the barriers between ourselves, our fellows and our Higher Power.

Steps Six, Seven, and Eight: By working the prior steps we become ready to abandon the aspects of our character that interfere with our usefulness to God. We turn to God to remove our defects and begin our attempt to clean up the wreckage of our past.

Step Nine: A practical method of making amends to those we have harmed frees us from the chains that bind us to our past.

Step Ten: We continue to practice the techniques we have learned by working the prior steps.

Step Eleven: We are given methods by which we may expand our contact with our Higher Power.