I play this scene in my mind many times. Every time i get a different scenario, but the end result somehow is always the same.
Imagine one day you get a chance to witness a dialogue between Resistance and Transformation. True to their name, both are stubborn and both feel they are right in their own way. Poor human being at times i feel, actually has no say between the two of them. When any one of them feel they want to run your life, well you just let them, do as they please.
So what would transformation say to resistance, that can make our whole life turn upside down? or what is it, that we will do if a choice is given to us?
Transformation is what we call evolving ourselves, but many times we are not prepared as the unknown is scary and our little power spots resist such transformation from within. I am a non vegetarian person, for me i can eat vegetarian meal provided i do not have any compulsion of eating vegetarian meal only. Now if i look at this objectively, as long as i have no compulsion i am fine with eating vegetarian, the moment its a bet or i to de-toxify my system, insist that for a week i will only eat vegetarian meal, well hell will break loose in my mind and body.
Is it my mind resisting the transformation or it is my addiction resisting? Million dollar question with a penny to give for the right answer.
As rightly said "People don't resist change, they resist to change themselves." I would love to see everything around me change, as per my liking. But i would not agree, that change happens within, our mindset to evolve to see things in a different perspective.
I like watching calm waters, they bring a sense of serenity within me. If by chance someone wants to create a ripple, by throwing a small stone, my first emotion would be anger leading to fear, that why has someone changed my calm serenity, or maybe i might find the ripples interesting, to see how the wave moves in motion as one, and slowly fades away; leaving behind a different atmosphere. Now this change happened with external factor but it was within me the transformation, of watching the waves create a symphony of music before calmness settled again. So does resistance need an atmosphere to transform?
There are many who live mundane ordinary lives. Waiting for that one moment which will transform the mundane into extraordinary. Yet it deceives us and we just live. Looking at this one would feel that even after hoping for a change it eludes us. If we had a rewind button, we could go back and see all the opportunities which presented themselves to make the ordinary extraordinary, yet how many times we chose to let go of taking a chance and resisting the change.
"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them" an interesting quote by Thich Nhat Hann. We always have a plan, and all things need to go as per this plan which we have envisaged for our progress. To transform one needs to have an open mind and accept the change within and around. Sometimes the things we can't change, end up changing us.
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend last week. I told him about my humiliation and lies weaved by my colleagues, for me to move out of my job, he could not stop laughing. I was upset with his attitude initially, but then suddenly realised my own foolishness. This was my moment of change and transformation. I had moved out of events, and the only reason i got back was i needed some time to be in my comfort zone to move on with life after Simba died. The time period was over and i didn't want to be an event manager for the rest of my life. Therefore all i can say is thank you to all the people who were scared of change and said lies to get me out. Had they been not scared of change i probably would have been stuck in a mundane life once again.
Still your mind meditation helps in understating the chaos which we go within . Our fears are many, we are creators of our own pain and misery yet we chose to blame any one and everyone for making our life miserable. Once you take a journey within , you would realise that change and resistance are two sides of the same coin. Sometimes we change, sometimes we resist. Thats how our life is and whoever can break this circle and accept change with out any questions will make the ordinary extraordinary.
In the end all it matters it that, you have lived your life to the fullest and there are No Regrets.
Transformation isn't about improving, its about re-thinking.
Imagine one day you get a chance to witness a dialogue between Resistance and Transformation. True to their name, both are stubborn and both feel they are right in their own way. Poor human being at times i feel, actually has no say between the two of them. When any one of them feel they want to run your life, well you just let them, do as they please.
So what would transformation say to resistance, that can make our whole life turn upside down? or what is it, that we will do if a choice is given to us?
Transformation is what we call evolving ourselves, but many times we are not prepared as the unknown is scary and our little power spots resist such transformation from within. I am a non vegetarian person, for me i can eat vegetarian meal provided i do not have any compulsion of eating vegetarian meal only. Now if i look at this objectively, as long as i have no compulsion i am fine with eating vegetarian, the moment its a bet or i to de-toxify my system, insist that for a week i will only eat vegetarian meal, well hell will break loose in my mind and body.
Is it my mind resisting the transformation or it is my addiction resisting? Million dollar question with a penny to give for the right answer.
As rightly said "People don't resist change, they resist to change themselves." I would love to see everything around me change, as per my liking. But i would not agree, that change happens within, our mindset to evolve to see things in a different perspective.
I like watching calm waters, they bring a sense of serenity within me. If by chance someone wants to create a ripple, by throwing a small stone, my first emotion would be anger leading to fear, that why has someone changed my calm serenity, or maybe i might find the ripples interesting, to see how the wave moves in motion as one, and slowly fades away; leaving behind a different atmosphere. Now this change happened with external factor but it was within me the transformation, of watching the waves create a symphony of music before calmness settled again. So does resistance need an atmosphere to transform?
There are many who live mundane ordinary lives. Waiting for that one moment which will transform the mundane into extraordinary. Yet it deceives us and we just live. Looking at this one would feel that even after hoping for a change it eludes us. If we had a rewind button, we could go back and see all the opportunities which presented themselves to make the ordinary extraordinary, yet how many times we chose to let go of taking a chance and resisting the change.
"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them" an interesting quote by Thich Nhat Hann. We always have a plan, and all things need to go as per this plan which we have envisaged for our progress. To transform one needs to have an open mind and accept the change within and around. Sometimes the things we can't change, end up changing us.
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend last week. I told him about my humiliation and lies weaved by my colleagues, for me to move out of my job, he could not stop laughing. I was upset with his attitude initially, but then suddenly realised my own foolishness. This was my moment of change and transformation. I had moved out of events, and the only reason i got back was i needed some time to be in my comfort zone to move on with life after Simba died. The time period was over and i didn't want to be an event manager for the rest of my life. Therefore all i can say is thank you to all the people who were scared of change and said lies to get me out. Had they been not scared of change i probably would have been stuck in a mundane life once again.
Still your mind meditation helps in understating the chaos which we go within . Our fears are many, we are creators of our own pain and misery yet we chose to blame any one and everyone for making our life miserable. Once you take a journey within , you would realise that change and resistance are two sides of the same coin. Sometimes we change, sometimes we resist. Thats how our life is and whoever can break this circle and accept change with out any questions will make the ordinary extraordinary.
In the end all it matters it that, you have lived your life to the fullest and there are No Regrets.
Transformation isn't about improving, its about re-thinking.
Interesting. Seems more like a vicious circle of transformation and Rethinking endless exchange of voices talking in the head, all the time. Kudos for penning it down.
ReplyDeleteChange the only constant in life. Yet we choose to believe that we can stop the change from happening. This circle continues till the time we are not willing to accept and live in now. Every moment gives us an opportunity to make ordinary extraordinary but our fears stop us.
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