How can I keep a more open mind about things?

Question

I'm 16 and I'm very closed minded when it comes to new things.

For example I am an Atheist. This wasn't a choice made of spite, or to get back at my parents or anything like that. It was something that was more of a process than an overnight "I don't believe!".

The rebellious and closed minded come in the fact I reject Christianity to the point of not listening to anything it says, so I don't even give it a chance and that's foolish. For some reason I'm willing to give some exotic religion like Buddhism all the time in the world to study... but have a hard time picking up a Bible and just reading it too see for myself what is written there and I know that even if I did read it I would not be able to keep a fully open mind to what's written there. It's like I'm so set into my ways that I'm not willing to be open to other possibilities that surround me.

This happens with a lot of things I noticed. Like for example the TV show Breaking Bad... I've already made up in my mind that I don't like that show due to the fact it's hugely and just ridiculously overrated... So I don't even give it a chance and again, if I watched it, I know I wouldn't have an open mind about it.

I want to find wisdom in this world and I want to be open to everything around me... but I hold too many prejudices to do that.

I don't mean being so open minded that my brains fall out (As I heard somewhere long ago) but open enough to where I can actually answer things in life and experience life. Like for example, so many people believe in Spirits and a God and I am so quick to reject that... but how do I know if those things do or do not exist if I am not willing to give them a chance?

This isn't really all about God or Religion, It's just the biggest example I could come up with. It's in all wakes of life for me.

Answer 1

You can try and keep an open mind through your love of knowing. In the great field of tension with your wishes to find your wisdom, from a level of better nurtured own good material and spiritual energy and also perhaps through some mentored learning program perhaps with the help of clever professionals for your good money or of good friends for free, and so obviously through your own more growing perspicacity, you may soon be achieving a superb awareness of the wider glow of your mind and of your own more growing sagacity and of the sun-kissed treasures and of the potentialities and beauty of your own life.



Your enthusiasm and your good daring steps on the path or avenue of your own life may evoke in you your newer material and spiritual good visions.



That which greatly can count for you and also for others in your life will be the quality and the strength of your own learning exertions. Then your own more magical way of doing things in the ventures and adventures of your own life certainly will evoke in your soul, in your eyes, in your visage, in the whole of your own person and personality, the glow and the wisdom of your open and more free mind.

Answer 2

You should read their document secretly: so that you can make up your mind by yourself. If you have friends, you can talk with them. After you have some ideas about those religions, you can talk with experts in those religions. Anyway, those religions have been existing more than a thousand years. There must be some reasons for their existence. For example, Christianity is for losers who exist as long as there is competition in the world.



Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven for one sinner that converteth, more than for ninety and nine just men, which need none amendment of life.

Answer 3

rejecting before reasoning about something is indeed closed-mindedness.

to reason, you need to gather information, do research, from different sides of those reject and support. still don't completely trust your research because lots more information is still available. here debate with people from different sides are good to know. depends on the weight of a subject, you should give time, money (for books, internet, etc) and brain.

Answer 4

<---- This is you, Meditate & Realize

Body is a grave, wake up & be Alive

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It is better to achieve Mindfulness (alertness) on present.