Be with the change you want to see in the world
On a conference call this morning with friends around the world talking about skillful being with change, I had this thought that because change happens anyway, any story we have about it is equally valid. And so, in choosing to be with changing times and changing environments, we can choose the way in which we see change.
Being the change you want to be in the world is a beautiful thought, because it invites us into embodying shift and being in one’s integrity with one’s work. Maybe too there is another level, which is to be WITH the change you want to see in the world. In a world where whatever happens is the only thing that could have, choosing to be with the changes that make sense seems to be a key capacity to staying sane and being useful.
Understand your stories of change, understand your stories about the changes going on around you and be with the ones that you want to see. The truth of it, I think, is that at any given time, there is something going on that we can choose to be with.
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Yes Chris – and I am finding that when I am the change – it happens immediately.
I wonder if we have forgotten that we learn best through mimicry – If I do, I change. If I am – then you are influenced by how I am not by what I say.
If my voice, my body and my spirit are all one….
This is the second post I’ve read today about change. What I hear you talking about and Paul exploring over at The P Train is the mindset of change… and he shares his experience of how challenging it can be for the mindset to actually make its way into practice. Paul writes:
“I have cancer and that is bad. The fact that it has caused me to re-evaluate aspects of my life and make a mental commitment to some healing alterations is good. The reality that I am having difficulty implementing some of those changes is human. I get amazed how comfortable it is to intellectualize about changes and even reach a point where I begin to believe I am actually doing what I am thinking about without having taken the first step.”
For me… part of my noticing around change is that I seem to have to take multiple first steps before I actually experience transformative change finding embodied roots in my actions. It’s all about the practice, I guess!
This is the second post I’ve read today about change. What I hear you talking about and Paul exploring over at The P Train is the mindset of change… and he shares his experience of how challenging it can be for the mindset to actually make its way into practice. Paul writes:
“I have cancer and that is bad. The fact that it has caused me to re-evaluate aspects of my life and make a mental commitment to some healing alterations is good. The reality that I am having difficulty implementing some of those changes is human. I get amazed how comfortable it is to intellectualize about changes and even reach a point where I begin to believe I am actually doing what I am thinking about without having taken the first step.”
For me… part of my story around change is that I seem to have to take multiple first steps before I actually experience transformative change finding embodied roots in my actions. It’s all about the practice, I guess!
Absolutely Ashley…for me it is definitley about practice. Lots of noticing about what is alive for me in the world, and choices about where to go with that sensing. There is much to do in this life. Choosing is practice as Paul so beautifully illustrates. Then, as Rob is saying, we integrate.