I’ve been commiserating a lot with others about change, and the feelings that surround change. It seems there are a lot of people in my life who are experiencing big life changes, a breaking from habits and the ‘known’, and facing the only constant of life… change.
It’s easy to get into habits and routines, whether work-related or not. We often do not question them. They become unconscious behaviours that are easy.
Our brains prefer to take the easiest options. Habits are comfortable – even habitual unhappy work – and these habits become increasingly embedded into our ways of living and working.
To question habits and routines first requires an awareness that we might be stuck in a habit or routine. Then, changing a habitual routine requires some effort, which can be uncomfortable.
No wonder we all tend to resist change.
We might feel that life could be better, or perhaps we positively want life to be better, but doing something to change things is a different matter – especially if we’ve been in a habitual routine for a long while.
I always look to nature and her natural ways of dealing with space and time for the answers. I look at the seasons, the weather… rain/drought, cold/hot, wind/stillness. I look at the beauty of an ancient tree that loses a limb in a storm and recovers its balance by growing another one. The determination of a mother bird who travels back and forth building her nest, only to have the wind knock it down… and she starts over.
Change is indeed the only constant of life.
My blessing for you~~~ to find the balance so change is welcomed and habitual ways are kissed goodbye with a thank you.