Good morning, and Happy New Year to you! I hope it holds all the wonder you wish for. Yesterday, I got totally immersed in a project and forgot to blog until evening. Oh, dear. Moving forward this morning, we will continue on through the book, discussing an approach to life which involves having an open heart and mind.

“We spend our lives behind the barriers of a closed gate, protected from the hurt and pain that might come to us.

“If we allow our hearts to open, we will see things in a different light.

“We will grow through the barriers of our heart and be able to fully experience the richness of life.”

We start closed up, protecting ourselves and our heart. This is in response to being hurt before, so we have learned, right? Well, to maintain sobriety, we need to become open, to let love flow freely back and forth.

Not only do we want to open our heart, we want to open our mind to all that is being shown to us, to all that is coming our way. This paves the way to inner peace, which is our objective, our goal.

Often, we have contempt prior to investigation and this is what we want to do differently in sobriety. As sober people, we want to be open to new ideas, others’ thoughts, and what others have to say to us. We consider these things instead of scoffing. We look with wonder at what is being presented to us. This helps lead us to peace.

With our open mind, we clear our heart and consider things with a fresh approach, a fresh heart, one which sees things with awe and wonder. It is a decision we make, just a simple decision, and then we practice being open, both in mind and heart. The rewards of this decision are immense.

We look with honesty at our mind, our heart. Are we open to new ideas and thoughts that others present, or are we closed and have our mind made up before listening to another? Is our heart closed to protect us from hurt and pain? We consider opening it to allow feelings to flow freely in and out of our heart. When we do these two things, we pave the way for peace to come in.

May you  be graced with the ability to open your heart, your mind, and may some peace flow in.

Tags: open heart, open mind, peace, peace of mind, Sober Living, sobriety

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