Is it possible to deal with all the changes we are facing in our lives in a way that makes sense to our soul? I am convinced that there is. But how, in this constantly shifting time, can we reconcile what is going on with what we want to be going on?
That’s not a small or unimportant question. Everything is shifting all around us. The global monetary crisis is but one of the major areas in our lives that are being affected. Our politics, our religions, our social systems at every level are changing as well.
On Sunday we presented in Southern Oregon the first in a series of programs that we’ll be offering throughout the U.S. in 2009 based on the book, When Everything Changes, Change Everything, to be published in April by Emnin Books, an imprint of Hampton Roads Publishing Company.
In that spiritual renewal program we talked of a wonderful new approach to resolving the difficulties and meeting the challenges of all this change. The folks attending that program witnessed — and many of them participated in — a simple, yet remarkably effective, approach to dealing with change in their lives. In brief, the approach is to “fight fire with fire” – that is, to deal with change by doing something that is counter-intuitive: adding even more change. This approach emerges from the freedom-giving messages in the Conversations with God books, and can be learned in one day.
The tool underlying this approach is a three part process that can alter any aspect of your present experience of life that is not bringing you peace and joy. The tool can eliminate worry, anxiety, depression, frustration, sadness, disappointment, resentment, anger, and any other negativity from your internal landscape.
This tool is called The Change Process. It invites you to change your present experience of life by changing your present perspective about life. Nothing in your exterior reality may change, but much in your interior reality will. The Process invites you to consider and embrace life-altering new ideas about yourself, about your purpose and how life functions, and about the reasons that things happen and have happened in your life.
Through this simple yet profound shift, you can turn…
– Judgment into Observation
– Reaction into Response
– Fear into Adventure
– Worry into Wonder
– Boredom into Excitement
– Expectation into Anticipation
– Resistance into Acceptance
– Disappointment into Detachment
– Enragement into Engagement
– Addiction into Preference
– Requirement into Contentment
– Lack into Abundance
– Illness into Health
– Loneliness into Connectedness
– Emptiness into Fullness
– Hopelessness into Hopefulness
– Grief into Joy
Guilt into Innocence
– Failure into Success
– Depression into Appreciation
– Sadness into Happiness
– Shame into Pride
Most wonderful of all, I have seen this process change tears into laughter in 7 minutes.
This become possible because The Change Process opens you to understanding who you are and what is happening around you, all in a new way. And it is about ending any thought you may hold that any negative feelings you are experiencing can only be changed by altering your exterior circumstances. That is simply not true. There is another way.
Perhaps most remarkable of all, you can employ this process yourself, in your own home. You don’t need me, you don’t need to go to a retreat or workshop or any special program.
In our next entry here I will share with you the first part of the three-part Change Process. I want you to have this tool, even if you don’t need it now.
In the meantime, have any major changes happened in your life in recent weeks or months? How have they affected you? Is there anything that you would like to change in, or about, your life? Any circumstance or situation that does not bring you joy? How are you working with that?
Let’s talk.