Change: Will You Resist With Terror or Embrace With Wonder?
Change: Will You Resist With Terror or Embrace With Wonder?
If you think about it, life is one long continual process of change. Sometimes it's change we welcome. Sometimes it's change we step into apprehensively. And at other times, it's change we resist tooth and nail. The reality is that experiencing change in your life is a certainty. Whether your experience of change is one of terror or wonder is a choice. Resisting change is generally a pretty futile activity since the only thing that you can ever predict in life is that nothing will ever stay the same forever. Given that reality, the only logical way to approach change is with courage and trust in ourselves that whatever challenges change brings, we have all we need within us to meet them.
As I look back on all the changes that make up my life story, I realize it's been one truly amazing journey of ongoing adjustments, ongoing challenge, ongoing adventure, ongoing growth and, of course, ongoing change. Some of the change I embraced arms open wide, some I've tripped my way through nervously and some I've struggled through very ungraciously.
I recall the period during which I moved from Australia to the United States in the wake of 9/11 when I was in change overload: three children under three (including an 8 week old!), no friends, living from suitcases with no fixed address for 4 months while all our belongings made their way by ship and a largely absent travelling husband. The intense feelings of being overwhelmed, isolation and resentment that dominated my emotional landscape at the time are still so vivid my stomach still tightens as my memory goes back. It was only when I was able to move from a mood of resentment to acceptance and then from acceptance to ambition for the opportunities America offered me that all those changes became a gift rather than a burden.
When it comes to change, just like any adversity, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. As it does, it teaches you so many lessons about yourself, about what life has to offer, about joy and suffering, regret and responsibility, loss and love. And now that I stop to think about it, it has also taught me to treasure each and every experience I have along the way, the highlights and lowlights alike. You see, even the tough times pass, even the disappointments fade, even the weight of sorrow, and the deep sadness it gives rise to, gradually loosens its clenched grip on our heart.
Your life is so busy. As you juggle responsibilities, manage multiple (often conflicting) commitments and try to work through the changes that are being forced upon you as life forces them on us all, I invite you to pause from all your doing and just celebrate where all the changes in your life have brought you to, and who you have become as a result of them. Needless to say, you would not be where you are today had you not had to deal with the changes and risen to the challenges you have. Just as your journey to this moment has been unpredictable and unique, so it will be beyond here. Don't let another day, week or year slip by without opening your arms wide to it, savoring it and celebrating it.
Embrace the opportunities that life's changes offer up to you and step forward into them with wonder and gratitude for all there is for you to learn from them and become through them. Whatever your changes may lay in store for you on the road ahead, you have all the resources you need to embrace them with wonder and navigate them with courage.
Change Will You Resist With Terror or Embrace With Wonder - To learn more about this author, visit Margie Warrell's Website.
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I know that you have experienced a lot of change in your life - some that you've enjoyed and some that you haven't. You've likely endured some disappointments, changed jobs, or at least experienced change on the job, enjoyed many fun occasions, grieved some losses, and through it all, had to grow and adapt and learn and become stronger, wiser and more resilient.
If you think about it, life is one long continual process of change. Sometimes it's change we welcome. Sometimes it's change we step into apprehensively. And at other times, it's change we resist tooth and nail. The reality is that experiencing change in your life is a certainty. Whether your experience of change is one of terror or wonder is a choice. Resisting change is generally a pretty futile activity since the only thing that you can ever predict in life is that nothing will ever stay the same forever. Given that reality, the only logical way to approach change is with courage and trust in ourselves that whatever challenges change brings, we have all we need within us to meet them.
As I look back on all the changes that make up my life story, I realize it's been one truly amazing journey of ongoing adjustments, ongoing challenge, ongoing adventure, ongoing growth and, of course, ongoing change. Some of the change I embraced arms open wide, some I've tripped my way through nervously and some I've struggled through very ungraciously.
I recall the period during which I moved from Australia to the United States in the wake of 9/11 when I was in change overload: three children under three (including an 8 week old!), no friends, living from suitcases with no fixed address for 4 months while all our belongings made their way by ship and a largely absent travelling husband. The intense feelings of being overwhelmed, isolation and resentment that dominated my emotional landscape at the time are still so vivid my stomach still tightens as my memory goes back. It was only when I was able to move from a mood of resentment to acceptance and then from acceptance to ambition for the opportunities America offered me that all those changes became a gift rather than a burden.
When it comes to change, just like any adversity, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. As it does, it teaches you so many lessons about yourself, about what life has to offer, about joy and suffering, regret and responsibility, loss and love. And now that I stop to think about it, it has also taught me to treasure each and every experience I have along the way, the highlights and lowlights alike. You see, even the tough times pass, even the disappointments fade, even the weight of sorrow, and the deep sadness it gives rise to, gradually loosens its clenched grip on our heart.
Your life is so busy. As you juggle responsibilities, manage multiple (often conflicting) commitments and try to work through the changes that are being forced upon you as life forces them on us all, I invite you to pause from all your doing and just celebrate where all the changes in your life have brought you to, and who you have become as a result of them. Needless to say, you would not be where you are today had you not had to deal with the changes and risen to the challenges you have. Just as your journey to this moment has been unpredictable and unique, so it will be beyond here. Don't let another day, week or year slip by without opening your arms wide to it, savoring it and celebrating it.
Embrace the opportunities that life's changes offer up to you and step forward into them with wonder and gratitude for all there is for you to learn from them and become through them. Whatever your changes may lay in store for you on the road ahead, you have all the resources you need to embrace them with wonder and navigate them with courage.
Change Will You Resist With Terror or Embrace With Wonder - To learn more about this author, visit Margie Warrell's Website.
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