Comments on: Making a Change http://verbalremedies.com/making-a-change/ with Breah Livolsi Parker Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:09:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: scott http://verbalremedies.com/making-a-change/comment-page-1/#comment-585 scott Wed, 06 May 2009 01:22:14 +0000 http://verbalremedies.com/?p=233#comment-585 I had to laugh at your opening paragraph...It was a hoot. Glad you haven't lost your sense of humor during all this. Scotty I had to laugh at your opening paragraph…It was a hoot. Glad you haven’t lost your sense of humor during all this.

Scotty

]]> By: Dawn http://verbalremedies.com/making-a-change/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Dawn Mon, 04 May 2009 21:17:49 +0000 http://verbalremedies.com/?p=233#comment-584 I am grateful for and resist change. Grateful, because when I get to the other side, I see and feel the gifts. Resistant, because I can fear the unknown. Then add the ego into the mix….and all the voices begin. Oh, the voices (otherwise known as “monkey mind)….they are universal….”You can’t do that” What if” “Something bad is going to happen” “What are you thinking” Blah, blah, blah….. What I have come to realize is that change happens anyway….! Whether I want it or not. That’s the only constant in this world, as I’m finally coming to see. Byron Katie (www.thework.com) speaks to me of the resistance piece (peace?). She tells a story of being in a car that has hit an ice patch (or a sharp curve) and it goes out of control. There are 2 ways to be there, one with tight jaw, teeth clenched, white knuckles clutching the steering wheel, swearing at the gods. The other is to be open and curious. One of these is kinder and what I have come to know is I have a better chance of responding mindfully from that place than I do from the place of terror and reactivity. My mission these days is to just show up, and let spirit show me the way. And as change occurs, because it does......my job is to stay awake, stay conscious, and curious. That’s all !!!!! (And when I don’t, my body and spirit give me signs…..not sleeping well, not eating well, addictive behaviors, the quality I bring to connections, etc) Change is a happening. When I think I am the doer, I forget about faith and mystery and magic. Namaste, Dawn I am grateful for and resist change. Grateful, because when I get to the other side, I see and feel the gifts. Resistant, because I can fear the unknown.

Then add the ego into the mix….and all the voices begin. Oh, the voices (otherwise known as “monkey mind)….they are universal….”You can’t do that” What if” “Something bad is going to happen” “What are you thinking” Blah, blah, blah…..

What I have come to realize is that change happens anyway….!
Whether I want it or not. That’s the only constant in this world, as I’m finally coming to see.

Byron Katie (www.thework.com) speaks to me of the resistance piece (peace?). She tells a story of being in a car that has hit an ice patch (or a sharp curve) and it goes out of control. There are 2 ways to be there, one with tight jaw, teeth clenched, white knuckles clutching the steering wheel, swearing at the gods. The other is to be open and curious. One of these is kinder and what I have come to know is I have a better chance of responding mindfully from that place than I do from the place of terror and reactivity.

My mission these days is to just show up, and let spirit show me the way. And as change occurs, because it does……my job is to stay awake, stay conscious, and curious. That’s all !!!!! (And when I don’t, my body and spirit give me signs…..not sleeping well, not eating well, addictive behaviors, the quality I bring to connections, etc)

Change is a happening. When I think I am the doer, I forget about faith and mystery and magic.

Namaste,
Dawn

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