Q: Does the word "change" mean fear or excitement for you?
I don't have to think long on this one - it means excitement for me. I thrive on change. I am happy to shake things up, make things move, try things out, wonder what's around the next corner, go on adventure to try something new, see something different, meet someone from somewhere else, learn as much as possible along the way.
I don't see change as loss, ever. I see it as expansion, always.
Sometimes change is hard to embrace, when it appears that we are enduring loss. Even then, though, change drives growth and new beginnings and uncovered opportunities.
And, as philosopher Alan Watts noted, it's really best to 'join the dance.' Best way to view change... a dance.
Quarter-beat, half-round - and change manifests in the pauses in-between our inhale and exhale. When it doesn't make sense, or we're afraid what we'll find on the other side of change, that's when we need to slip on our cloak of courage and plunge right in. We will always find something amazing and profound when we look back in hindsight and see how marvelously we navigated all those changes in our life.
Really. I am always amazed at just how magnificently I've come through the hardest moments and biggest changes my life has seen. With aplomb, with growth and wisdom gained that couldn't be had any other way. With an expanded view and understanding, with a conscious awakening and embracing of what is - seen and otherwise.
Change is amazing and exciting and exhilarating and scary and magnificent and anxious and wondrous and crazy and fun and daunting and expanding and profound and subtle and moving and... life-giving in all its highs and lows and plateaus. Change is something to anticipate and embrace because it's what brings about our brightest and best in all our soulful living on this orb we call home.
Change? Bring it! Long and loud and large and lovely!
I'm in for the ride of my life. Always.
Now, who's up for shaking up their status quo and finding some change in their life? Raise your hands!
Comments