Change for me has been a scary concept far too often.  I am slow to relinquish where I am and slow to embrace the new.  Slow to take the next step and move out of the comfort of the known.  Yet change is one of the constants in life.  It is with us everyday from the hands on the clock moving to each breath we take.   Each moment is different from the next, each inhalation and exhalation different from the one before.  

For most of my life I have viewed change as a threat or at the very least discomfort that I didn’t want to experience.  I remember many times being confronted with new technology or opportunities and procrastinating on implementing the change until the energy I had put into avoiding the task probably exceeded the energy it took to complete it.  One of the earliest of these events that stands out to me was when email began taking the place of fax machines and even phone calls.  (I know that probably seems like ancient history to some but it is still very much a part of my life lessons.)  I found so many reasons as to why email would not be efficient or viable until finally I caved, mainly because my children (two of my best teachers) were adamant it was a necessity.  Within a week of establishing an email account, and even though the internet at that time was dial up on a phone line which created a whole other subset of problems, I couldn’t believe I had waited as along as I had to implement something so simple, so easy and so efficient.  The big scary unknown monster named email was only in my imagination.  

I have found this to be true in general, when confronted with change of some sort.  My primitive brain first perceives the proposed change as a threat as it is something new and unknown.  And so I wait, not taking action and finding excuse after excuse not to proceed, letting the fear build into something akin to the monsters living under my bed when I was a child.  It is only after the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change or I am finally forced to take action that I step into the moment.  And in stepping into the moment, I am almost always surprised at how much   easier the change is than my thoughts lead me to believe and  how beautiful  the difference is.  In observing these experiences I have come to understand change is not always a threat and more often than not it is a door opening.  It is potential.  It is hope.  It is dreams coming true.  I have learned there is a beauty and magic that happens when embracing the opportunities change presents.  And truly, it is the uncertainty and insecurity of the unknown the provides beauty, wonder and the preciousness of life.   

Wishing you friend much courage in embracing change as it arises and recognizing the opportunity it presents on your heartfelt journey.  ~♥~