Sunday, May 10, 2015

5 Ways to Find Beauty in Painful Life Changes


Stepping onto a brand new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation that no longer fits, or no longer exists.



The reason for our suffering, in all walks of life, is our resistance to life’s inevitable changes.
And life is all changes.  To have lived is to have changed often.
Sometimes this is hard to accept…
What you have today may become what you had by tomorrow.  You never know.  Things change, often spontaneously.  People and circumstances come and go.  Life doesn’t stop for anybody.  It moves rapidly and rushes from calm to chaos in a matter of seconds, and happens like this to people every day.  It’s likely happening to someone nearby right now.
Sometimes the shortest split second in time changes the direction of our lives.  A seemingly innocuous decision rattles our whole world like a meteorite striking Earth.  Entire lives have been swiveled and flipped upside down, for better or worse, on the strength of an unpredictable event.  And these events are always happening.
However good or bad a situation is now, it will change.  That’s the one thing you can count on.
And while I resist change, and suffer sometimes just like everyone else, I have learned to adapt.  I have learned to be flexible and look for the beauty in life’s changes, even when they aren’t what I want.  But before we get into how to do that, let’s take a look at…

 http://www.marcandangel.com/2015/05/06/5-ways-to-find-beauty-in-painful-life-changes/#more-838


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