Higher Power & Change

Amazing Grace

Our Higher Power is within us and all around us. It is a benevolent force in the universe that knows what is best for us. It is a mysterious force that we can tap into in order to recover. You know you are in touch with your Higher Power when you are suddenly filled with the willingness and energy to change after years of being stuck in your addiction.

Your Higher Power is not your inner critic, or your sponsor, or any one individual. Your Higher Power is energy. We do not really understand how our Higher Power works, but neither do we understand electricity. And yet we turn on the light switch so we can see what we are doing and where we are going.

You may imagine your Higher Power in any form you want.

Once you receive the willingness to change you must take action. You must think and behave differently. You must change how you look at romantic love (limerence).

If you listen closely when you unlock a safe, there comes a moment when you hear a click, and the tumblers finally fall into place. You can’t really see what’s happening, but your fingers move, and it all comes together. The beginning of change is like this. You do something different and finally something clicks. It is all very mysterious. You don’t really understand it, but when it happens you know. You immediately open the safe and take out your valuables. In this case, the valuables locked up in the safe are all the wonderful things you will become when you change. And the key to all this is taking action. You don’t just sit there and stare at the safe. You do something.

Excerpt from The Art of Changing.
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