We are all familiar with doubt. It is hard to feel inspired when we are dragging doubt along on the journey. What if we were to let go a little. We don't have to carry that heavy bag full of reasons why failure is ahead. Can we let go a little of trying to control how things should turn out? What we can control is our optimism, our hope, feelings and actions.
Bernie Siegel says, "It is okay to have doubts, just don't feed them and entertain them."
The antidote to doubt, Ariane tells us is "surrender.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Change Demon #1 : FEAR
Ariane de Bonvoisin says that " fear is an emotion that exists only in regards to the future".
In week #3 we looked at a list of some different types of fear. It seems to me that most of us at one time or another have experienced either all or most of these. Change often seems to throw us off balance. I suspect none of us likes that feeling. However, if we know that feeling, that emotion, will happen many times in our lives and that we have faced it and moved through it in the past, then we also know that fear is a part of being human, and we can learn not to be threatened by it.
In yoga we build tools to deal with fear and uncertainty. We learn how to calm our emotions and still the busy mind. We return to that place within us that never changes, the place that is always there. I like to call it our "Higher Self". You may want to give in a different name.
In week #3 we looked at a list of some different types of fear. It seems to me that most of us at one time or another have experienced either all or most of these. Change often seems to throw us off balance. I suspect none of us likes that feeling. However, if we know that feeling, that emotion, will happen many times in our lives and that we have faced it and moved through it in the past, then we also know that fear is a part of being human, and we can learn not to be threatened by it.
In yoga we build tools to deal with fear and uncertainty. We learn how to calm our emotions and still the busy mind. We return to that place within us that never changes, the place that is always there. I like to call it our "Higher Self". You may want to give in a different name.
CHANGE MANIFESTO
All of you received a copy of the "Change Manifesto". Week 2 we looked at a this list of optimistic and insightful truths about change. We discussed some of these in class. I think I might add one more statement to this list and that is that change can be challenging and overwhelming at times, it therefore invites us to ask for help when we need to. Change optimism doesn't mean we can handle anything on our own.
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