Change is a foundational ground on which everything is created; a structural pattern upon which we are built. It exists in every moment and every stage of our lives.
Yet we perceive it as a disease, something we must be immunised against. A disease for which we need to develop antibodies to eliminate the threat when it’s still on a micro scale, before it gets a chance to overtake and consume our whole being.
Inheritance
Change is not a component of life that sometimes – unfortunately – happens.
Change is life.
It is ingrained in nature in an absolute way. It is not something you can avoid by doing all the right things, gaining some ultimate knowledge, or having luck on your side.
Change is inherent to every moment of our existence. It takes you from today to tomorrow, from the morning to evening, from infancy to adulthood, from a risk to a gain, from amateurism to mastery, from naivety to wisdom, from romance to a soulmate, from sorrow to grace, from birth to death.
The Seed
Change is both our companion and it is us. We can observe ourselves as only an object, a victim, that’s subjected to change. We can also see how the versions we’ve been in the past are all equally ourselves. The person you remember you once were, although appearing distant, is an essential part of you. It may not be who you are today, but it was a vital point in your becoming.
Just the same, where you are now, no matter how pleasant or unpleasant you may find it, is an essential point from which your future, much longed-for self is sprouting.
What Gives
We don’t like change because it brings disorder to our perfectly composed universe. We see it as an evil force that takes away from us all that we’ve known.
Change does, indeed, take from you a lot – but it always gives more in return.
Change is like a guest that never knocks on your doors empty handed. It may disturb for a while the flow you entertained before, but it always leaves you with new energy, eyes that grasp a larger image, and tools that equip you to both ground and uplift yourself more.
Motion
We’ve learned to praise those who stay unchanged throughout their lifetime, those who stick with what they’ve learned and acted upon in their early days. We perceive them as beacons of strength and determination.
But a static way of living is an attack against your nature. It robs you of the freedom of dynamic expression you were designed for. Trees, rivers, seas, and clouds all exist in motion. Under the strong winds, they bend, create waves, they storms and rain. When the temperature rises, they condense, changing their form, while preserving the matter.
When seasons of your life change, you aren’t failing and becoming lost – you are adjusting yourself to a change in the weather that surrounds you.
Preservation
Change is not a threat to your integrity; it’s a way of establishing it. Nature strips away only those temporary things, appendages useful only for that particular season and climate, but keeps the seed intact.
Trees shed their leaves, but the roots are as deep and as vital as ever.
Your form and state mutate, but your inner spine continues to stand upright.
Change is integrity preservation. It’s nature’s way of showing respect for what you’re made of – those realest, rawest, divine parts that lie at the core of your being. The energy of your spirit is always genuine, only changing and readjusting its expression.
In summer and winter, nature stays equally true; it only alters the tone of its charm.
Fluid Existence
Your form is always genuine when it’s an expression of your true self, and not what the mind thinks it should be. The transformation you are being initiated into is a conversation with the context of the atmosphere you find yourself in. Accepting it is a surrender to the ecosystem that holds you.
Just as a drop of an ocean condenses into clouds, changing its form while preserving the matter, you as well transform and take different shapes for varying temperatures of the air around you. Like water in clouds and oceans, your essence remains the same when you exist up high or low on the ground.
When you alter from a drop of the deep blue into a cloud, you don’t fail as an ocean – you rise up to fly with the clouds. When you rain from the sky towards the ground, you don’t fail as a cloud – you are now waves and currents swimming with gravity; the emerald cycle of impermanence, will, and beauty.
Puddles And Wonders
As our minds continue to tell the broken story of storms being evil, of winter and rain disturbing the beauty and peace of living, remember how in you there has always been love and appreciation for all of the seasons. A child never complains about the weather. It marvels at rain puddles the same way it points at stars in the night sky.
Remember that your mind doesn’t have to know and hold everything together, because the one that narrates at all times, and perfectly holds the pieces together, is nature that flows through you and around you.
Inner nature that holds us, and the outer nature that connects us.
Remember as well, that the mind is not evil, something to reject and discard, like a failed project that brings embarrassment to the creative potential you embody. The mind is learning, it is still more often just like a small child throwing tantrums, screaming in fear, secretly asking to be soothed, comforted, and reassured that it doesn’t have to hold everything on its own. That it is safe even when it can’t explain, predict, or know.
Everything teaches, and everything guides. Ours is just to open and soften the eyes.
