My now 15 year old daughter Jessica thrives on changing her world!

An old saying:

“There is no pain in change.

There is no pain in growth.

There is only pain in resistance to change

and resistance to growth.”

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Why do I resist change?  It is all around me.  It is inside me.  It is life.  But, it is unknown to me and my body’s experience.  So I cling to the old, the comfortable.  I keep doing the same daily routine or using the old tool, long after the effectiveness is gone. Would a plant resist growing through the soil or reaching for the sun?  Would it struggle to make itself different than its makeup?  Would it want other plants to grow against their nature?  Would it say to the earth, stop growing me now, I’ve done enough. No, rather the plant (and other life force) would willingly go with the surrounding elements to experience constant change & growth.  Am I different?  Am I special somehow from the rest of nature?  Even with all my human intricacies, I am still a body on the earth plane.  My body carries a genetic plan of growth.  My soul carries its karmic plan of growth.  I can resist this or surrender to the ecstasy of living it.

My daughter just turned 15.  I am still in shock.  When did this happen? How can I slow down the changes I see happening so quickly in her.  In my business as a professional organizer I am the bringer of change.  I see people struggle with it daily.  I see the cost of resistance.  And I am there to support them in the new.  My greatest joy is seeing them transform and shift into their present time beauty. Yet in my personal life I have struggled so to accept change.  I have carried a belief that change meant struggle.  I have a dear friend that keeps saying “change is good, change is good, change is good.”

I have been told that a miracle is simply a shift in perception. I am here to offer a simple shift in your understanding of change. Rather than focusing on the unknown, start with simple acceptance of what is.  Let your body and your mind accept the present moment.  Then simply be willing to change.  You can trust in the natural process.  Believe me, life has the power to bring all that is needed to learn the new way.  You don’t have to figure it out first. 

Begin with Acceptance…

• I accept myself.
  

  Jessica when she was younger and alive with anticipation of the next moment

• I accept my life as it is today.
• I accept that change is constant.
• I accept that I will change today.
• I accept one change today.
• I accept that all around me will change today.
• I am simply willing to change.  I don’t have to know how.  Life will teach me.
• I am willing to enjoy a change today.
• I am willing to let go of the old way or old stuff.
• I will validate a change today.
• I trust change.  I can start with a small one and build up.
• I trust the gift of growth that change brings.
• I trust that life will bring me all I need to support my change.
• I Trust Life.

 Lastly, focus on the gift.  Let the Universe and your life bring in something or someone new, something that has the power to grow you in this moment.  Today I am choosing to focus on the incredible beauty that I see in my daughter - her gifts, her enthusiasm, her friendships, her desire to still get hugs, and her changes.  I am going to soak up all that she brings me.

Change can be simple if I let it happen to me.