Parvati Magazine | Page 6

POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN? H “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