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CHANGE
NEVER ENDS
Meeting the Challenge of Change, Part 12
There is no end to change. What is the end? We are
always in a moment - in motion - that leads to another moment. We are not
going to an end. Instead we are going for an experience that leads to
another experience. The journey unfolds and it is never ending.
We forget that. We think that we can make it end.
That one day we will get there. We'll be done.
But life isn't like that. Life is a dance, a
movement, an unfolding.
Change by definition is uncomfortable. When we are
in the process of change we give up the current position we occupy and
move to the next one, which is unfamiliar, out of our comfort zone and
therefore UNcomfortable.
Discomfort is a sign that we have outgrown where we
were and are learning something new. It tells us we are changing and
growing. And this is good. Enjoy your discomfort for it tells you
something new is on the way.
Bless the lack of complete satisfaction for it keeps
us moving forward and evolves us into greater beings. If we were satisfied
and comfortable, we wouldn't do any work. If we reach the end = getting
everything we want and need, there is no expansion or growth.
There is always something else we are going to go
after - because our nature is to evolve and we desire to grow further and
expand. Not because we are miserable - but because we yearn for movement.
A sense of incompleteness is good. It keeps us moving forward.
Bless your issues, for they are the irritation, the
discomfort, that fuels growth.
Notice what in your life is uncomfortable. Now ask
yourself how can I welcome that which is changing with an open heart?
QUOTES:
"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring
comes and the grass grows by itself."
~ Taoist poem ~
You have the ability to raise yourself. Don't
contract from your experiences. Bless them. Love them. They are your
ladders into expansion and higher consciousness.
~ John-Roger with Paul Kaye ~
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or
what's a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning ~
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING:
- Scan your life - noticing what may be currently
disturbing to you.
- Ask yourself might this irritation be a sign that
there is something changing in your life - either inside of you or in
your outer environment.
- Wonder how you might have invited that change
into your life - what was restless in you for more - for expansion -
for growth?
- Can you embrace the disturbance and bless it as a
gift of your own design?
WONDER QUESTIONS:
- How are you the promoter of your own discomfort?
- What aspect of you wishes to reach beyond what
you have in the moment so you must expand into more?
- Are you willing to claim the creative impulse to
grow, learn, and expand?
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