Limitations

[caressa]

I no longer decide what I should feel. That is very limiting.

If I limit my negative feelings, I limit my positive feelings as well.

Today I am opening myself to all my feelings. That gives me great joy.

Time for Joy - Book - Quote

This was something I didn't understand when I came into recovery. I had stuffed all those feeling and blocked off all the memories and didn't realize that while blocking the negative, i had also closed down prefenting the positive and goodness to enter my life.

When I look at life with my narrow outlook, I am limiting God as to how He can work in my life. If I open my mind to all things, doesn't mean I have to accept them all or like them, and yet it allows me to find what is good for me.

Life just is not all positive or all negative. Life is made up of both. It is what I choose to do with it that matters. I can act out, I can close down, and yet I can change it and I could look for the goodness in the negative. Everything is not ALL negative or all positive. That is why I try to have an open mind.

As my sponsor use to say. You can learn to things when you go to a meeting. How to work your program and how not to work your program.

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[BW]

For me, it is not about limiting..it is about acceptance & surrendar.

It is what I refer to as [FFDH] ..face...feel ...deal.... heal....and do it with your hand in God's.

[caressa]

When I don't accept and surrender, I limited myself. I limit my recovery by closing my mind and only being willing to hand over things that I don't want. I need to surrender all, it can't be a portion of my life. I can not be whole, if I am not willing to accept who I am in today and be willing to change into the person my God would have me be.

It is a process. Everything can't be done at once. As they say, first things first. Staying clean and sober. When I do that, the rest will follow if I am willing on a daily bases to be honest, open minded and willing.