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PROCESS OF CHANGE Inherent in life is growth. In order to
feel alive you and I must continue our growth process. Inherent in
growth is change. It is that simple - if you desire to feel alive
then you invest yourself in your growth process. And, you embrace
change as part of that process. Note that I said this was a simple
process, no place did you read the word easy. For me, change can be
a challenge.
I have observed that most people don't really
care for change. I have often given lip service to how wonderful it
is, and in my heart know this to be true. But, even as I write this
I am in a decision making process in my own life that includes many
potentially difficult changes and can tell you I am still
intimidated by the process. I "talk the talk, and walk to walk" of
change for the majority of the time, however, you will come to see
through reading my book and/or participating in my "Writing the
Soul; Journaling to Wholeness" program that at one point in my life,
I was so uncomfortable with the change process of that my class and
book materials came into existence. I developed a whole program
around making this simple idea of change easier.
I will be very up front and direct, because
that is my style of doing things - on occasion the process of change
scares the blazes out of me. This happens especially if the change
resembles anything remotely "risk-like". That is not to say that I
don't take risks, but I have never been fond of what I would have
called the "risk-taking dilemma". It has taken much work at my own
process to see risk taking as something to be excited about rather
than something to dread, but I have reached a point in my life where
I call risk taking an adventure. Although I would have told you
previously that I was really good at taking small risks, but is that
an oxymoron? If it is small is it a risk?
How is risk measured? Is it by size of the
act? With this, I would disagree. I have done many things in my
life that would appear to be very large to the on-looker.
Personally, these big actions in the world didn't faze me. Getting
my doctorate didn't seem like a risk for me at all. It was a lot of
work, but it wasn't frightening. Yet, I can tell you about having
to make one simple phone call that nearly pushed me over my personal
edge. And this was a call to someone I knew! Granted it was a call
to request help, and asking for help ranked right up there with the
whole "risk-taking dilemma", but how crazy is that? I can work six
years on a degree doing all sorts of public speaking, being judged
on my work, etc., but it takes two weeks to make a three minute
phone call to someone I know and ask assistance.
So if it isn't the size of the action what is
it? I have to say that it is the amount of tension surrounding the
circumstances. And, what is tension, but a form of energy. What I
realized at the moment this thought came to me was that everything
in life from growth, to change, to risk-taking, is all about energy,
how it is used and what it creates. With this awareness, I knew
that I better figure out what was going on with the energy in my
life.
What's going on with the energy in yours? |