POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES
HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN?
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“Change
happens when
we are willing
to see things
as they are,
rather than how
we want them to be.”
ow does change happen? We often say we
want change, when really we are afraid of
change. Holding on for dear life to old patterns in
our thoughts, in our cells, in our action, we find ourselves without the results we want and repeatedly
back in similar situations. We blame circumstance,
others, even God, for the events in our life and can
easily get stuck in self-criticism. Try and try as we do,
here we are again right back to where we don’t
want to be! So what is going on?
Often our knee-jerk reaction, when we want something to change, is to see the problem as ‘out there’
so we go out and try to fix the situation or person to
our liking. But this leads to further unhappiness. The