It involves taking a completely honest look at yourself, especially the wrongs you have done in the past - never a very comfortable thing for anybody. However, the miracle of the promises come immediately after completion of steps 4 - 7. When I first did step 7, I felt elated afterward at the sudden change in the burdens I had been carrying around with me for so long. There was so much fear, resentment, false pride, self depreciation, shame and other defects that I had always spent so much energy covering up, even to myself, let alone others. By admitting them to another human being, I robbed them of their power.
Hidden secrets can be amazingly powerful.
I had such a sense of freedom as I had never felt before in my life. They really weren't all that horrible. In my mind I had blown them all out of proportion. My sponsor listened to all off it and assured me that she had heard most of the same things before, and that they could be released. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.