Walking the Red Road

Mr. Larry Salway

Outline of Lakota Culture 117

Walking the Red Road

4 Elements of Renewal

1-Reconciliation with Creator (Spiritual Renewal)
2-Reconciliation with Self (Cognitive Healing)
3-Reconciliation with Family (Emotional Healing)
4-Rebuilding of Behaviors

This restores the Harmony, Balance, Beauty, and Peace we find in the Sacred Hoop

4 Quadrants (12 steps) of Renewal

Steps 1-3 (1 st quadrant)
SPIRITUAL

•  Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
•  Step 2 - Came to believe that Creator could restore us to sanity
•  Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Creator

Steps 4-6 (2 nd quadrant)
PERSONAL CHANGE

•  Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
•  Step 5 - Admitted to Creator, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
•  Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have Creator remove all these defects of character

Steps 7-9 (3 rd quadrant)
RELATIONSHIPS

•  Step 7 - Humbly asked Creator to remove our shortcomings
•  Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
•  Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others

Steps 10-12 (4 th quadrant)
LIVING THE RED ROAD

•  Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
•  Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Creator, praying only for knowledge of Creator's will for us and the power to carry that out
•  Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs