Article | Dealing with Change

We all experience fear.  We all experience pressure.  We all experience hope.  With change, you don't experience just self improvement, you experience life improvement.  Because when you know how to learn from your experiences, change is for the better.  We cannot grow or live without change.

The Integration of Change ... what are the symptoms?

Following are just some of the symptoms you may encounter in the ongoing cycles of life.  If you pay attenion, you will notice that these symptoms come and go constantly, and are tied with amazing accuracy to the changes in your life.  Remembering that "what comes around goes around" can help you handle these feelings with understanding, patience, and assurance that "this too shall pass."  Integrating awareness with these cycles of life's changes simplifies the automatic fight or flight struggle that tries to force change to hurry up or go away before it's time.

To understand why you are feeling what you are feeling, allow the feeling with knowing that it is not permanent (good or bad), and to accept what currently is as simply a step along your path of life ... that is a fair start to integrating life change in a less combatant more gentle manner.

Put simply, learn to allow your life changes to ebb and flow.

Symptoms that Change is coming or happening ...

lack of focus
feelings of congestion in the head and heart ("information" downloads, too much happening, anxiety, panic)
stomach pains, cramping, general physical discomfort
browsing, searching without satisfaction (food, keep busy feeling, boredom)
pulling sensation deep within
loss of thought patterns (forget what you're saying)
loss of hunger, but need to consume (inability to be satisfied)
feelings of being full up, yet flat and nondescript (both physically and emotionally)
feelings of searching, waiting, missing out
restless sleep
scattered, nonsensical dreaming

Symptoms that Change is achieved ...

immense relief (obviously :)
natural high
sense of rightness
clarity
feeling of purpose
relaxation and peacefulness, inner calm
feelings of being safely grounded
sense of "dropping into" your true self
strong flow of positive energy
easy laughter
sense of being without waiting
undertanding
bliss, lightness of feeling
simplicity
fullness in your heart (a feeling of expansion)