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Change will occur in almost every aspect of our lives, we can learn to
embrace it while releasing the past with grace. When we find ourselves going through any
kind of change in our lives, our natural response may be to tense up on the
physical, mental, or emotional level. We may not even notice that we have
braced ourselves against a shift until we recognize the anxiety, mood swings,
or general worried feeling toward the unknown that usually results. There are
positive ways to move through change without pushing it away, however, or
attempting to deny that it is happening. Since change will occur in almost
every aspect of our lives, we can learn to make our response to it an
affirmative one of anticipation, welcoming the new while releasing the past
with grace. One thing we can do is change our
perspective by changing the labels we use to identify our feelings. We can
reinterpret feelings of anxiety as the anxious butterflies that come with
eager expectation. With this shift, we begin to look for the good that is on
its way to us. Though we may only be able to imagine the possibilities, when
we acknowledge that good is there for us to find, we focus our energy on
joyful anticipation and bring it into our experience while allowing the
feelings to carry us forward. We can also choose to do a ceremony to
allow our emotions to process. Every culture has created ceremonies to help
people make the transition from one phase of life to the next. We can always
create a ceremony too, perhaps by burning written thoughts to watch the smoke
carry them away, thereby releasing them, or we can welcome new endeavors by
planting flowers or trees. Some ceremonial activities such as a farewell
send-off or housewarming party, we may do automatically. Society also has
built-in ceremonies, like graduation and weddings, which may satisfy the need
we feel. Sometimes the shift from denial to acceptance is all that is needed
to ease our anxiety, allowing us to bring our memories with us as we move
through nervousness to joyful excitement about the good to come. |
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