SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GROW (USE GOOGLE TO VISIT THE ORGANISATION CALLED GROW). 1. Personal Value No matter how bad my physical, mental, social or spiritual condition, I am always a human person loved by God and a connecting link between persons. I am still valuable; my life has a purpose; and I have my unique part in my reator's own saving, healing and transforming work. 2. Self-activation My personla contribution to my recovery or growth is irreplaceable to my recovery or growth is irreplaceable. It consists of: (i) patience and perseverance in practising GROW Program; (ii) the systematic development and use of my personal resources. 3. Mutual Help The more maladjusted I am, the more I need help; yet to grow out of maladjustment I need to become concerned for and to be helping others. 4. Ordinariness I can be ordinary. I can do whatever ordinary good people do, and avoid whatever ordinary good people avoid. My special abilities will develop in harmony only if my foremost aim is to be good ordinary human being. 5. Friendship Among human relationships, friendship is the special key to mental health. As I am healed and harmonized by responding to the offer of true friendship, so the measure of my maturity is my capacity to be a true friend.