The Law of Constant Change The Law of Constant Change as a fundamental law of our life that needs to be both understood and harnessed if we are to have a happy and successful life. The Law states that everything in our life is in constant change, constantly in the process of becoming something else. Nothing stays exactly as it is. Nothing. Movement and change constitute the reality of our being. Our finances, our friendships, our career possibilities, our life opportunities, our health, our children, our parents, our daily activities, our insights, all are forever changing and becoming something else. To many this is a frightening and daunting phenomenon, as most of us crave stability, but stability is an illusion, and you and your circumstances will change whether you like it or not, whether you want them to or not, because they cannot and will not remain the same. It is the law and nature of who we are as human beings having this extraordinary experience of living a life. Here are a few keys that will assist you greatly in both understanding and harnessing this law, so that you can become an active and creative participant in your ever evolving and changing life. Key #1 “Don’t fight change. Embrace it.” it is quite amazing that what is so obvious on one level (just look at all the changes that have happened to you in the last year) is so misunderstood on another level. Let’s get right to the point. The only certainty in life is uncertainty. The only constant in life is constant change. We value comfort, stability and certainty, and yet these things don’t really exist. This can cause some people stress, as they worry about what is going to happen to them. A better strategy would be to re-orient your thinking so that you not only value change, but embrace it as a healthy and important part of your life. It is change that allows us to succeed at our goals. It is change that allows new opportunities to reveal themselves to us. It is change that allows us to be creative. It is change that heals sickness. It is change that allows us to try different things. It is change that encourages us to adopt new life strategies. It is change that allows us to take on new skills. It is change that allows us to change our beliefs. Change can and should be a very positive dynamic in our life. Think for a moment of the incredible stagnation that would result if we didn’t have change? Provided that we have goals, understand and practice Mind Power, and remain positive through the constant fluctuations of our life, we need never fear change. It is the only successful way to a meaningful life. Key #2 “Be proactive in initiating change.” Evaluate yourself and your present situation honestly, looking for ways to initiate positive change. Ask yourself these questions: Do I accept change willingly? Do I trust life to respond to my needs, or do I live in fear? (See the past topic Trusting Life.) Do I trust my creative imagination to come up with solutions to every problem or difficulty I may encounter? Where am I stuck in my life? What one change could I make in my life that would have a huge impact on me? What would a new, more positive life look like? Know your strengths and weaknesses. See your life as a work in progress (which in fact it is!). Always be on the lookout for ways to make changes. Don’t wait for changes to happen to you. Be proactive in choosing the changes you want. Key #3 “Be willing to let go of present attitudes that sabotage you, no matter how comfortable you are with them.” Do you have a victim mentality? Are you a complainer? Are you a negative person? Are you a worrier? Do you live daily with fear? Do you have resentments, grudges, hates? Do you have limiting or negative beliefs about money, health, yourself, life, your future? Look for ways you can change something that is negative in your attitude to something that is positive. This has a double effect. Firstly, you’ll gain immense benefit from it, and secondly, you are actively participating in the Law of Constant Change. Always remember that if you fail to actively initiate change either through fear of change or inertia, change will impose itself upon you, because your life cannot and will not remain the same. Understanding this fully makes you proactive in initiating change regularly. Key #4 “Include fun, leisure, and quality of life as part of your changes.” Interestingly enough, in two of my five books, Money Success & You and The Practice of Happiness, I devote an entire chapter to fun and leisure. Why? Because it is an important key to both success and happiness. In Money Success & You I make what appears on the surface to be a very outrageous statement. I write, “Most people are so busy working hard and trying to get ahead that they will never be successful.” This is contrary to the commonly held belief that the harder you work the more successful you will be. I advise people to work smart, not hard. If you want to have consistently great ideas, as well as the ability to recognize opportunities and work effectively, you will have to have quality leisure. In embracing change, embrace a new more holistic approach to your life that recognizes the value and wisdom of fun and leisure. As the old saying goes, “The bow that is kept forever taut will break.” Be creative in having more fun. Key #5 “Expect to succeed, be positive.” As you re-create yourself and your life and embrace change, expect that the changes will bring you a happier more successful life. That is not to say there won’t be setbacks, failures, heartaches, a myriad of experiences that challenge you. This is to be expected. But if you’re proactive in initiating positive changes, if you’re a positive person and expect to have a happy and successful life, you will attract these things to you. There is a law that has a constant and dramatic effect in our life, and that law is the law of change. The law of change states that everything is in the process of becoming something else. Change happens everywhere and with everyone and happens constantly. In the galaxies of outer space, where our sun will burn out in a few hundred million years, change is happening. In the subatomic world, where particles are colliding with one another and morphing into something else in hundredths of a second, change is happening. Everything is always changing. So too in our lives, change is the one constant that we can be absolutely sure of. So why don’t we live our lives acknowledging this and initiate change on a regular basis, thus putting ourselves in harmony and rhythm with this process? Why is change so hard to embrace? We must learn to be comfortable with change and eventually embrace it. The Mind Power practitioner works with the law of change, initiating changes through choice, will and practice. Initiating change while flowing with the changes as they happen, is a dance with life that the Mind Power practitioner loves to do. There are three main factors that are the causes of change in our life: choice, chance and crisis. All three carry power and have their own particular dynamic. Of the three I prefer choice. Choice allows me to be proactive in directing and choosing my changes, rather than having them just happen to me. Let me put it another way. If there was a change meter that sets how much change is supposed to happen to us, and you initiate a lot of those changes yourself, doesn’t that reduce the possibility of them happening to you by chance or crisis? Think about it. If nothing else, this is a philosophical and mathematical truth and is probably the way it works. Each of us will be faced with all three modes of change, but using choice allows us to navigate our life with greater dexterity, and it should be a whole lot more fun. Working with the dynamics of choice means embracing change as a constant reality in our life, being vigilant in looking for changes that would help us, and then being proactive in initiating them. In business there is an old maxim that says that no business stays the same year after year. You are either gaining market share or losing market share. You are either innovating new products and gaining on your competition or your competition is innovating new products and gaining on you. You are becoming either more competitive or less competitive. You are either gaining customers or losing customers. If things are going well you may choose to make no changes and run your business exactly as you have in the past. The marketplace, however, is not static. It is a constant hive of activity and change, and by not initiating change you may easily fall behind. We usually don’t make changes when things are going well, but we must pay homage to the Change Gods; they demand change, and if we do not initiate change, life will initiate it for us. So too in our relationships with our friends, children, parents, spouses or co-workers; all are in the process of becoming something else. Through using the dynamics of choice we can choose to deepen and enrich the relationships that are important to us. Our health will not remain the same. Our choices in diet, exercise, thoughts and lifestyle will all have their effect. So too with our spirituality. Left alone, unattended, it will not stay the same, but will wither into something that no longer nourishes us. Choosing to enrich our spirituality by practices, prayer and study, and making this an active part of our life, we reap the rewards. Identify aspects of your life that would respond favorably to change, and then activate that change, putting yourself in harmony with the greater laws of the universe. That is how choice is used to change. You are now participating and becoming the law of change in your own life. Chance: Chance is the word we use when we don’t know or understand why something has happened to us. From a Mind Power perspective, very few things happen by pure chance. Ninety-five percent of the things that happen to us have their causes in our thoughts (conscious and subconscious) and our actions. There is a cause and effect relationship, though we might not always recognize it. We are on a far better footing, both metaphysically and practically, if we assume responsibility for what is happening in our life and get on with it, rather than believing that our life’s circumstances have nothing to do with us. Chance is like luck, and yes, both exist, but heres an excellent quote that sums up my feelings about luck: “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” A.J. Foyt (winner of the Indianapolis 500). Initiate positive change in your life regularly and chance and luck will favor you. Crisis: Everyone will experience crisis at different times in their life. Marriages break up, businesses fail, a death happens in the family, we lose our job, we have a major health issue, we get wiped out financially. While crises are never enjoyable, they are almost always transformational. Why? Because the crisis forces us to make changes we never would have made prior to the crisis. Comfort is the enemy of change, and when we are too comfortable in our present situation, we often resist the impulse to make change. A crisis dramatically forces that change upon us. It’s always painful and never pleasant, but if accepted it is ultimately healing and almost always beneficial. You can trust the process of crisis. Whenever someone tells me they are going through a midlife crisis I always respond, “How wonderful. I’m so excited and happy for you.” And I mean it. How wonderful that at the midpoint of your life your psyche should shake you up and make you look at your life and the way you are living it. What a gift this is to you. At the midpoint, where there is still time to make new choices and have new experiences, your psyche is gifting you with this crisis. A crisis is like a forceful, abrupt change tornado which initiates dramatic change whether you like it or not. So whatever crisis you may presently be going through, embrace it as a tremendous opportunity. In my thirty years of traveling and teaching, countless hundreds of people have shared with me how their deepest crisis was a major positive turning point in their lives. A lost job results in a new and more rewarding career. Failing health results in a new lifestyle. Financial ruin leads to a deeper spirituality. These are not the exceptions, but rather a glimpse of the human experience enjoyed by those transformed by a personal crisis. Change happens through choice, chance and crisis. Change your life through choice, and, as Ghandi said, “Be the change you want to see in life.” - See more at: learnmindpower/articles/the-law-of-change/#sthash.3IbFU5GA.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:07:54 +0000
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