Change Is Not Difficult. We Make it Difficult.

You are not changing, but becoming

You are not changing, but becoming

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We are more afraid of change than we should be.

Resisting change won’t make it disappear — It will make things worse. What we resist, persists.

Resistance is a signal, not a natural behavior. We must listen to what it’s trying to tell us, instead of turning it into a paralyzing sign.

Lao Tzu summed that up perfectly,

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them — that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

As a society, we screwed up our relationship with change. I’m not saying it’s easy. But treating it as the enemy, rather than our ally, doesn’t help. Change is our natural state of being. By focusing on what we can control, it will feel less stressful and more comfortable to achieve.

Change has a bad rap

We fear what change can do to us, instead of thinking about what we can do because of it.

Experts love making us feel we are fa…