Hypnotes Column February 2008 ~ About Change.

Nothing stays the same. We live with constant change each moment being an end and a new beginning.  We know change can be sudden or progressive, welcome or forced. Change can be viewed as being an opportunity or a threat. 
Many people see change as being out of their control, and of course many changes are. However not all, and if we are to have happy healthy lives we need to learn to recognise that external change is constantly happening but we can make our own changes too.  Those who choose not to change will find life over takes them, and they will get lost in their own memories of ‘the good old days’.

When we recognise that we can change and we can introduce positive changes to our lives and environments and circumstances it is then we see change in a more positive light.

Each New Years Eve, we are more aware of the need for change, than at most other times of the year.  Need to change from being a smoker to a non smoker. The need to change destructive relationships, or working patterns. The need to change job, change eating patterns, replace bad habits and so it goes on.

And yet when we stop and think about it, why focus on change on one night of the year. The difference is, for many at least, is on that one night of the year, we decide that we have the responsibility, the power the opportunity and the authority to bring new positive change into our lives. But it is a flawed thought. Those same feelings of authority, responsibility and power are ours to use at any time in our lives. And yet, unless change is forced upon us, we continue with the established beliefs or through the lack of enthusiasm for change that it’s not worth changing, it’s not worth the hassle, the heartache, the uncertainty.  We choose instead to tolerate unfairness, inequality, unhappiness and worse, because we fear change.

It’s up to us to view change in the most appropriate way possible. Change can be scary, there is no known and trusted script to change, and we have to rely on our knowledge, good luck, education, support system and more. And yet everything we know is a product of change. There is nothing we know now, that was not learned, and that is change. Change sometimes can be simple. Sometimes it can be scary, sometimes frightening, sometimes stressful and many other things too, but it can also be rewarding.

Sometimes not changing can be scarier. Not changing can mean more heartache, frustration and under achievement. An unwillingness to change can also contribute to life threatening situations for the smoker, the over eater, the couch potato, the illegal drug user, the excessive drinker the over worked, and others. It is far better to make managed changes to our lives, relationships and habits, than to have nature make the decision for us. For when we don’t make changes it is then that circumstances, fate, nature or whatever we call it, makes us change, and that is really is scary!

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