Everything changes. Seasons change. Weather changes. Climate changes. Our body changes. Our mind changes. Our relaships change. Our energy changes. There is rhythum of change. The challenege is how do we relate to the wheel of changes.
Acceptance of changes without resistance is a healthy and growth promoting way of coping with the changes. Taking a stand firmly, not rigidly, is another way of relating to and working on it without resisting and fighting against change. Denying, resisting, fighting, suppresing or
giving up is not the wholesome way of realitng to change. And that way we become agents of change.
Life is a journey. In my life journey, I have encountered many small and big challenges. Some challenges were very difficult to go through. Changes like deaths of people whom I loved and admired. I distinctly remeber the evening when I heard on the radio the announcement of Mahtma Gandhi's assasination. I was 21 yeras old. I was shocked, porfoundly saddened and very worried. Since then I have witnessed deaths of many people whom I loved dearly. The serenity prayer has helped me go through ups and downs of life. Practicing mindfulness meditation has been very helpful to me for workong on my pain and suffering. Implementing the three steps recommened by by Dr. Rick Hanson in his book Making Great Relationships are also very helpful to me. The three steps are: Let In. Let Be. Let Go. Allow distressing emotions come. Process them mindfully and be free from them by leeting them go. Another way that helps me go through twtsts and turns of my life is not to be bound by my expectations. It is like freeing myself from myself and by myself.
Namaste.
Jagdish P Dave
On Mar 17, 2023 Jagdish P Dave wrote :