Limiting Ourselves

[roverl0616]

A harder decision than the one to begin our recovery is waiting for us when we start our recovery. It's the decision to change our mind about everything. It starts with what we believe about there being a god and the why and how of the whole universe. I was very adamant about what I believed about these things and didn't want to change my mind. My mind was closed and this made it impossible for me to go any further with my recovery. What helped me here was when it was pointed that because no one really knows the truth about any of these things, that this is all about what we choose to believe. That by what I was choosing to believe I had limited myself, and cut myself off from the power I needed. Believe it or not I couldn't believe this. It was then suggested that I just be open to the possibility that I would be better off, if I'd change my mind on the way I believed about these things. I took that suggestion and worked very hard at trying to have an open mind about everything, this led me to being able to continue with my recovery.