10 Building Blocks of Change
This week, we review the building blocks of change. These are real ways to for us to discover our own healing journey. Each healing path is different, depending on your own particular struggles at any given time in our lives. Although the paths may be different, there are mile markers along the journey that are similar. These building blocks of change help us by forming a basis of understanding. Devising your personal path to healing, is up to you!
The Building Blocks of Change
Transformational healing is built on building blocks of change. You cannot heal without change. It is as simple as that. So moving from one sphere of life to the next, takes courage, strength and the ability to let go of what is in the past and move forward.
Change is inevitable.
Our lives are made up of the building blocks of change. Change creates the person we must grow to be. Change happens for a reason. That reason is to allow us possibilities we may not have seen in the first place. This can be traumatic or it can be less so. Each moment we have, good and bad alike, serve as building blocks to the next moment or challenge we face.
The single most important point you can make about change is that, in most cases, it’s not what faces you that’s the problem, it’s how you react to it.
How you react is determined by how you perceive a particular change. The Chinese word for crisis is “weiji”. Two characters that separately mean danger and opportunity. Every problem we encounter in life can be viewed that way. It is a chance to show that we can handle it. Changing the way you think, can change a life of stress and discomfort to a life of challenge and excitement.
These building blocks of change show themselves in many forms: The move to a different career, by choice or not; the loss of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, the move to a new home, or simply the change in the weather and how we feel.
It is important to embrace each of these transitions! Struggling, kicking and screaming, and dragging your heels will only prolong trying to control the uncontrollable. Learn to recognize the building blocks of strengths you may have overlooked. Embrace optimism and reform your old belief system. Honor the new you, which you are transforming into.
Here are some ways to embrace change:
1. Often, in any situation, we must take the quiet time to be with ourselves to observe this change. How is it going to affect me? Better yet, how am I going to let it affect me? What am I going to do to get through this? Allow the answers to come to you in your quiet time. View these answers as building blocks.
2. Take Everything one day at a time. Sometimes situations can become overwhelming when looking at the big picture. Again, take your quiet time to observe the moment. Allow yourself to take all the time, take the space that you need to grasp the building blocks of change.
3. Breathe. Deep breathing allows us to open our chest and expand. It clears our minds and bodies of toxins and should be used as a tool for change. Allow the breath to cleanse you and make room for change. Make room for something different. Let every breath mark yet another building block.
4. Support. We are always put at ease when we have support behind us. In these vulnerable moments, we can find strength in others. If you have a good friend, a family member, a loved one or a community group that you can turn to, do so. Be sure that this support comes from a positive, unbiased source. Otherwise, it can be more damaging than good. Rest assured, there have been others who have gone through what you are experiencing right now. See if you can take away with you some of their positive pearls of wisdom–and use them as more building blocks.
5. Love Yourself. You are the true source to your own happiness. You have to live within yourself. You have to be at peace within yourself. Only you can do that. Only you can make that happen. We each have our own way of being with ourselves, but there is only one way to be at ease with your soul. That is to love yourself, always. Let the reminders serve as building blocks.
6. Our belief system is one of the major factors that can get us through situations or can cause our life to crumble around us! I do believe that there is a lot of innate goodness and balancing our minds to subconsciously to get us through hard times. The other portion of this is how we “program” ourselves to deal with any given situation. Let these episodes of belief serve as building blocks of experience.
7. Let go of Ego. Embracing peace of mind, optimism, the ability to forgive, and a sense of humor, are all good ways to allow the ego to step aside and make room for some humble pie. For each time you manage the feat of overcoming ego, consider these as building blocks of change.
8. Allow Emotional Release. Identifying, expressing, experiencing, and accepting all of our feelings is your doorway to accepting the building blocks change in your life.
9. Be Flexible. You have a rigid mindset about work, relationships, kids, or lifestyle. Learn a lesson from the willow tree and its ability to bend in the great wind. Whereas, when we are rigid like the old oak tree, we can easily break apart under the stress of change. Learn to relax and follow the path unfolding before you as more building blocks.
10. There Is No Security in something that is irrelevant or no longer has meaning. When we let go of the familiar, we have the power to embrace the new. Embrace it! Use the unusable as more building blocks of change.
“The mind can experience more distance than the body could ever journey.”
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About the Author
Connect with Andrew Pacholyk MS L.Ac at peacefulmind.com “Living Life, Consciously” Alternative medicine and therapies for healing mind, body & spirit!
