''Change your thoughts and you change your world.''
(Norman Vincent Peale)
According to a Greek philosopher by the name of
Heraclitus ''Nothing endures but change.''
(He also said that ''no man steps in the same river
twice''.)
According to those in the know, us humans don't
like uncertainty. We like certainty, we feel safer when
we can predict what is going to happen next and when we
feel that we have some form of control, be it individually
or collectively.
Some suggest that change is exhausting for the brain
because change means that the brain has to create
new neural pathways. (thinking/behaviour patterns)
Habits, are basically well-used/worn neural pathways
that we use so often that we tend do so without even
being aware of doing it.
Research suggest that we make enormous amounts
of decisions and adjustments every day so habits
(basically decisions/opinions we stick with through thick
and thin) really helps to take a bit of pressure off the brain.
What most of us would probably call an ''ordinary day''
often consists of a bunch of things we do the same
way everyday. Often only when something un-expected
interrupts our ordinary day do we realize how much
we take for granted and how much we do
automatically and without thinking about it.
(Such as if the water/electricity is suddenly gone, or
the car won't start, the bus doesn't show, etc. etc.)
Just as we do things habitually, we think habitually.
We have behaviour and thinking habits/patterns that
we start to create/form/shape very early in life.
These patterns become so ingrained in our consciousness(es)
that often we don't even question whether we actually
still adhere to those patterns/habits/opinions....
Commonly though, it is when something happens that
severely challenges how effective or good our habitual thinking
and behaviour patterns are working
that we find that we may need to motivate our ''brains''
to find new neural pathways to guide our thinking
and behaving.
Change, in other words.
I have found that asking myself ''why do
I think/behave this way?'' has been rather helpful
in finding out if I need to update different
aspects of my thinking and behaviour patterns/habits.
-Here, take this book and read it, he said and handed me
the book.
I did. Halfway through the book I read : ''You are
responsible for your life.''
Yeah, yeah, I thought, of course I am.
I'm writing that I read it, which I did, what I did not
do was READ and digest/process the words.
That only happened a few nights later driving
home from a (music) gig and halfway up Mount Tamborine
where I lived then.
As my car sped up the mountain I felt as if chains
were falling off my body and for the first time
in my life!!....... I felt free.
I, me, I am responsible for my life.
I get to decide for myself and with unquestionable
integrity and self-determination what I will include
in my life and what I will not.
From that moment I made many changes in my life.
Some hard to make and some absolutely
necessary for the well being of my son.
''Change is inevitable,
success or failure the possible outcomes
but learning is a choice.'' (Braden Kelly)
''Change is the only constant in life."(Benjamin Franklin)
''Change is not a threat it is an opportunity.''(Seth Godin)
Change can be scary because it always brings
with it an element of uncertainty and an allusion of the unknown.
But, it also brings with it the potential of something
astounding, stupendous and most extraordinary.
Change is letting go of the balloon and watch it
as it soars higher and higher, free from a destination yet
heading there none the less.
''Change in itself is neither good nor bad.
It is what we do with it that makes it so.''
(Citizen Z)
''The greatest discovery of all time is that
a person can change his(/her/their) future by
merely changing his(/her/their) attitude.''
(Oprah Winfrey)
about the images: ''Tulips'', in flower language ''rebirth'', Photo
some editing in Elements
''Open the gates to possibilities'', photo some editing in Elements
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