Changing your life isn't easy. It's really hard. I mean, surprisingly hard.
For anyone that has seriously attempted to make some important changes in their life because they couldn't handle living in the same way anymore, you've probably experienced the growing pains that come together with deciding to live in another way. You are continually tested, you fail time and again, and it's hard to see the world in the light of positivism.
But it doesn't necessarily need to be that way.
You see, folk battle with deep change because they do not know how to act when the negative feelings start bubbling up. They believe that because negativism is occuring that they've got to be doing some things wrong. No! Not in any way. In reality if you are seriously wrestling and it hurts a little, you are doing things right. You are growing. You're moving past your comfortable zone.
When you're going through big changes, you're going to come across some significant obstacles. Pain is going to come out to play, your inner critic is going to run wild, and you are going to have some struggles. In truth, that is fantasically ok! That really means you are heading in the correct direction. Don't quit now when you're in pain. Keep going and see it all the way through and you will cross the finish line a transformed person.
The "Frying Pan Of Life" is all about how to get sufficiently near to the pain to work with it without being consumed by it. When you are constructing a new life, old things have a tendency to trickle out and you have to spend a good amount of time working with them. This is a normal part of the growing process. But you have got to work with them because if you don't, you run the chance of allowing the past to sabotage your dreams.
So how do you do this?
You have got to get near enough to the discomfort and experience it without getting totally consumed by it. You've got to be content to bring yourself to the painful places and let the thoughts and feelings and emotions swirl around you without taking you totally out of the game. When that can be done, you give yourself access to the lessons and light that are held within that dark place.
This takes a bit of talent and lots of practice, but if you can actually spend a while working in these dark areas with some compassion and love, you can defrost even the coldest of hearts.
For anyone that has seriously attempted to make some important changes in their life because they couldn't handle living in the same way anymore, you've probably experienced the growing pains that come together with deciding to live in another way. You are continually tested, you fail time and again, and it's hard to see the world in the light of positivism.
But it doesn't necessarily need to be that way.
You see, folk battle with deep change because they do not know how to act when the negative feelings start bubbling up. They believe that because negativism is occuring that they've got to be doing some things wrong. No! Not in any way. In reality if you are seriously wrestling and it hurts a little, you are doing things right. You are growing. You're moving past your comfortable zone.
When you're going through big changes, you're going to come across some significant obstacles. Pain is going to come out to play, your inner critic is going to run wild, and you are going to have some struggles. In truth, that is fantasically ok! That really means you are heading in the correct direction. Don't quit now when you're in pain. Keep going and see it all the way through and you will cross the finish line a transformed person.
The "Frying Pan Of Life" is all about how to get sufficiently near to the pain to work with it without being consumed by it. When you are constructing a new life, old things have a tendency to trickle out and you have to spend a good amount of time working with them. This is a normal part of the growing process. But you have got to work with them because if you don't, you run the chance of allowing the past to sabotage your dreams.
So how do you do this?
You have got to get near enough to the discomfort and experience it without getting totally consumed by it. You've got to be content to bring yourself to the painful places and let the thoughts and feelings and emotions swirl around you without taking you totally out of the game. When that can be done, you give yourself access to the lessons and light that are held within that dark place.
This takes a bit of talent and lots of practice, but if you can actually spend a while working in these dark areas with some compassion and love, you can defrost even the coldest of hearts.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author of The Words Of Encouragement, a website dedicated to bringing the best quotes, motivational content on the web, and blogs all to one place. Feeling ready to take the journey of your life? Dive into these life goes on quotes for some wise words on what it means to live honestly.
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