The fear and the joy of change

William Michael Forbes


The fear and the joy of change

Sometimes like a welcome friend, sometimes like my greatest foe, change the dance of life that goes ever on. wmf

A Well Known Fact: Without change nothing would or could ever be...even a rock is imperceptibly changing and so change must be so you too can.

Routines can be wonderful for giving us a sense of order and structure that we may rely and depend on, however everything that happens between our routine enables us to define and appreciate the structure that our lives have. There are many types of changes with many shades and qualities to them, yet they can be broken down into two basic categories;

1. Positive changes

2. Negative changes

There are only positive and negative changes in our experiences of life and we may feel many different degrees of intensity of positive and negative...these are the only changes that any of us will ever experience. Changes can be initiated by ourselves and others, changes can be brought about naturally through the interactions of the environment with itself yet there will only be positive changes and negative changes for us to experience. All matter requires an ongoing and dynamic movement of energy, an exchange of energy from one state into another that enables a constant birth and rebirth of time, space and matter. In the natural world there is no judgement as to whether or not change is good or bad, it just is...in the realm of humanity, where we consciously and directly experience change as pleasure and pain, the tendency is to avoid pain at all costs and to seek and only experience pleasure...however all of nature has to go through the experience of the opposites in order for changes to occur and so too must human beings...in order to become changes must happen...will happen...even if we try to avoid them. When we learn to not only embrace change but to actively seek it out, we become an active player in the life dynamic that we are all a part of...we can experience the highest highs of life and the lowest of lows and still grow, develop and evolve ourselves to higher and ever higher expressions of life...we can become a worker in a factory or an Einstein in a laboratory, we can become a miner or an astronaut, we can become a storyteller or a story writer...we can be whatever we might choose to be...as long as we are willing to change...and even if we are unwilling to change...life will mercilessly continue the process whether we participate or not, which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.

I want you to ask yourself the following question;

If I could change anything about my life, what would I change?

No matter what your answer is anything is possible. If you want to change your body in some way, there are many ways to change your body that can make you feel better about it. If you want to change your financial circumstances, there are many ways to do that too. Relationships too can be changed, enhanced, improved...life is a big etch-a-sketch. Today’s activity will take five minutes from each of the next three hours...so pick an area of your life that you want to change most right now and write down on paper how this change will impact your life and the lives of your loved ones in a positive way. And when this is completed take at least one full minute of the five for each hour and imagine seeing, hearing and feeling yourself as if the change has already occurred...remember to breathe and relax as you do this and...


Have a great day!

William

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