Embracing Change: From Resistance to Curiosity

Like the butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, we emerge from life’s transitions with the promise of growth and transformation into the person of tomorrow. — ShadowsPub

Life is a constant series of transitions. They start from the moment we’re born to the moment of our death. They can be physical, emotional, spiritual, cognitive etc. I’ll not be the same person in a minute as I was a minute ago.

That seems a bit like micromanagement doesn’t it?

It would be if I was actively treating those changes as transitions to be considered. It’s important to remember how much we change without notice. Integrating change as constant helps toward managing when tangible change becomes challenging.

Change is transition from what was to what will be. It can be something we do deliberately as part of our personal growth and transformation journey. It can be changes brought about by technology or social ideas. Change can be uncomfortable. It means learning new ways of viewing and interacting with the world around us. Or, with ourself.

I used to fight change. It always felt like change was something created to make my life harder. I’d huff and puff about how bad the change was and then would usually end up accepting it.

When I reached a point of considering why I was reacting so strongly, I came to realize, I was playing a script taught to me at a young age. I could continue to play that script or I could live differently.

Now, change is something I look at with curiousity. It’s something I explore and try to understand. Where is it coming from? Why should it happen? How will it happen? Who might benefit or be harmed by it? Will it help me? Questions drive my curiousity.

Using the old script, my reactions were fear based and unproductive. Now, curiousity becomes an adventure. I can choose to embrace and integrate changes or, reject them. Choices matter.

How’s your reactions to life transitions?