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Originally Posted by Shamou  Chances are very high that you will not effect any major changes in your life until you have reached the, “Threshold of Tolerance.”
So, how do you precipitate that faithful “Threshold of Tolerance…???”
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Earnie Larson, in his book
Stage II Recovery, calls this point a conversion experience. His description of a conversion experience is that a willingness to change will happen when there is a realization that a person is going to lose something the person is not willing to lose.
I do not desire to put myself in the painful and desperate mental and emotional place where I experience the fear of death or financial ruin or being bereft of human love or contact in order to find that moment where I am willing to change.
Fortunately, my experience suggests that all of my bottoms do not have to be that severe. After bouncing around the low side of the barrel a few times I seem to have acquired the ability to make mid course corrections before the navigational error causes a fatal or near fatal crash.
As I become more functional I require less pain to notice that there is something I might wish to change and to take action.
I do continue my education by feeding my mind. I still love to read or listen to James Allen's classic As A Man Thinketh! I read other things, am active with like minded people both off line and on line. I volunteer to help others.
These actions, I believe do not precipitate a crisis but puts me mentally, emotionally and spiritually in a place where I recognize things I might want to change before they become terrible events.