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Why change is hard and what we can do to adapt.
Movement brings about change. Everything in existence is continuously moving. Massive stars and galaxies are swirling under the influence of gravity, water in the oceans slowly churn, air continually circulates in the atmosphere and our bodies, there is a constant movement of air and blood. Why should the mind be any different? Thoughts are steadily moving, and the landscape of the mind changes from moment to moment. No two moments in nature are the same. In the body and the mind, we cannot find a place of absolute stillness. We intuitively know that there is some part of our being that connects with the still and the changeless, and we are in search of that aspect.
In existence, change is not a preference. It is the essence.
In the mind, under the influence of the free will, we pick and choose the changes we desire. Sometimes there is a resistance to change. Deep down we seek preservation of the self. Change comes in the way of that desire through the aging process. However, resisting change is very different from the experience of a changeless inner state of awareness.
Any resistance in the mind creates more turmoil and takes us further away from peace and joy.
The mind is at the crossroads of the outer and inner dimensions of life, between the changing and changeless. The mind is…
