Change Disrupts Our Lives By Design
💙 What are you dealing with at the moment?
💚 What has you anxious as you anticipate your future?
💓 What life change are you hoping to navigate smoothly?
No matter what you're dealing with--a major illness, starting a family, switching careers, moving, or getting divorced or married--any transition such as these 'seemingly good or bad' ones can send the strongest of souls into a sea of confusion and anxiety as you attempt to come out on top of the wave.
If you're to do well in life you need to accept that life is a natural 'shit-disturber' but also accept you are created with a nervous system designed to deal with whatever is thrown at you. You have what it takes to deal with life effectively.
Change and Transition~Natural Companions of Everyday Life
You'd think by the time you reached adulthood you'd learn to take it all in stride. But too often even the smallest change disrupts your life causing you to initially lose your bearing and rhythm. This is true for all of us.
Sometimes a change--whether good or bad--can really throw you for a loop--filling your life with a maze of obstacles to navigate and decisions to make at the very moment you're overwhelmed by the transitions causing the upheaval and turmoil.
Bring the Calm
So what's to be done with this natural shit-disturber called Life? We must learn to deal with it calmly and deliberately.
When life brings the disruption, you bring the calm.
You may not always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you always have a choice in how you respond. So when life brings disruption, you can choose to act in ways that interject calmness to give yourself more control and ease moving forward.
How to Interject Calmness
Your tools for calmly dealing with change are always within your reach--hiding in plain sight. All you need do is acknowledge you have them, and then put them to use daily.
Improve your Attitude. Accept change as a way of life. Chose to deal with it calmly.
Practice the Pause. Take time out from decision-making and anticipating the future. Give yourself time to do nothing and think about nothing. Choose to make decisions from a place of calm.
Pace Yourself. When your thought process speeds up, slow it down. Lower your expectations.
Stop Thinking. Do something to calm your breathing and heart rate--by engaging in pleasurable distractions. Listen to music. Take a gentle walk. Practice yoga. Read a book. Play video games. Play in the garden.
Manage Change when you Can. When you're facing a major life change, find ways to postpone making major decisions that would further disrupt your life for at least a year.
"We must endure that which we cannot escape."
Mark Nepo
You cannot escape life so you best learn how to navigate the barrage of changes you face with calmness. Get on board this amazing ride called life and find your way to go with the flow and keep rolling along.
Meditate on This!
The art in this post was created
using this purple cabbage as it's background.
You see it don't you?
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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.
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