May 14

”Nothing endures but change.” Heractilus

Change is still a scary thing. Change can make me feel anxious, nervous, afraid, angry…and usually does more often than it makes me feel happy or accepting. I am a creature of habit and I know much of my natural tendency is to want to remain exactly the way I am. And this is okay. Most change I face in day-to-day situations is external to me. It is generally not anything that I can do much about, or even influence. A lesson I am learning is that experiencing change around me does not mean that it will change who I am. I need to repeat this – experiencing change does not mean that it will change who I am. The only way for me to change is to decide to change myself. I can do this by actively working on making aspects of myself different, or passively b neglecting to do things to remain true to myself. Yet fearing external changes will affect the core of who I am I only a fact if I choose let it happen. This revelation helps to relieve my fear, anxiety and worry. Certainly changes can and will affect my environment and it can be challenging. Yet I still have all my skills and resources, my internal abilities, to cop in adapting to a new situation. My core being will remain intact as long as I choose it to be that way.

Affirmation I can look at change in a new light by accepting that the only person who can change me is myself.