Most of us start running for cover whenever we come face-to-face with change. In our minds, change is the uninvited and unwanted guest that we want to drive out of our lives as quickly as possible. Change means loss and suffering. Somehow, we will lose more than we could ever gain with change. We don't trust change enough to truly believe that we could be better off after experiencing a major change of some kind within our lives.
Self help author SARK believes that when we resist change, we are not trusting God. If I'm afraid of change and fighting it, then I am not trusting God. The more I fight change, the more it demonstrates my distrust. I say that I trust God, but my actions in the past have said something different. Every time I worried and feared about how change would make my life worse, I was demonstrating my lack of trust in God.
God wants us to be happy. He gave us the birthright of greatness and prosperity. He wants us to get the most of out of life, so that we can truly experience greatness and prosperity in the fullest sense. Change is often the catalyst that pushes us toward experiencing more in life. Change is usually part of our divine plan. When we fight change, we are really blocking our divine plan.
Change is part of a divine plan since there are no accidents in our lives. Every single life circumstance or experience happens for a reason. The reason for change isn't to bring us more pain and suffering. The reason for change is always to lead us to a higher place within our lives. I like to think of change as a messenger coming to tell us that we have outgrown where we are and it is time to move on to a bigger stage. Some part of our life has become too small for us. Change becomes the tool to help us break out of it and move into something bigger and better.
There are countless examples of how change pushed people up to a higher place in life. A divorce often leads a newly single mother to start a business to earn income. The business often becomes very successful. The mother might never have considered going into business had it not been for the divorce. A lay-off or firing leads someone to start a successful business. A natural disaster may result in someone losing his home and job, which creates an opportunity to start over in a new community.
Change never promises that the end of where we have been and the birth of something new will be easy and comfortable. Change always promises us a new opportunity if we are open enough to see it and wise enough to use it for a higher purpose. There may be some grieving as we say goodbye to whatever is coming to an end. There may be some anxiety as we wait to see what is coming next and deal with uncertainty. The best thing that we can do is to expect the best. We aren't going to be in control, which makes us feel very insecure. We have to surrender to change and allow the next phase of our life to unfold on its timetable. It is wise to anticipate being happier and being further along on the path of greatness in your life as a result of change.
Try not to get bogged down in thinking about what you are losing. If you are trying to hold on to whatever is ending, then you can't be open and ready to receive what is coming to you next. Trying to resist change only keeps us locked in a holding pattern where we are not moving in any direction. Be willing to be vulnerable as you spend time between where you have been and where you are going. Be humble. Be patient. Resist putting pressure on yourself to come up with all the answers all at once--allow the answers to come as you are emotionally ready to receive them. Pay attention to your instincts and follow them wherever they lead you. Be willing to take bold, new risks so that you can truly rise to the next level.
As you work with change, surrender to it completely. You will not be able to control change, so don't even waste time trying to do so. Change is always teaching us to move with the flow of life instead of against the flow.
Affirmations: My life is moving in exciting new directions. I expect new, exciting opportunities to come my way.
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