CHANGE: LIBERATION'S KEY.

Change is a constant and inevitable component of living on this planet. The challenge most mortals encounter is its unpredictability not only in timing, but in dimension.

For many, the ‘Why me ? Why now ?’ lament is the greeting of choice when they experience these ‘un-necessary' encounters.

If only Change had a great PR manager, or better scheduling personnel. But no, Change, especially the unsavoury flavoured variety, seems to occur at the worst possible moment. Being caught off guard seems to be the presentation scenario of choice.

CHAOS is often the cloak this unwelcome visitor seems to wear, as it gleefully bellows ‘surprise’ when least expected.

So what is the flavour of Change ? Are there characteristics that set it apart from the predictability of daily routine and tight schedule rigour ?

Change is a diagram, a circle; a Yin-Yang combination, interpreted to mean Danger simultaneously coexisting with Opportunity.

It is also a circle in which live three other components. Not only is CHANGE the predominant fixture, but there are also CRISIS, CHAOS and CHALLENGE.

The question is, how does one interact with Change, especially the chaotic variety, tinged with Crisis ?

Many choices present themselves depending on the circumstances, the timing and the personalities.

As a quantum physicist states, ‘what happens depends on our way of observing it, or on the fact that we observe it at all …’.

To view the Challenge/Crisis as DANGER will initiate an inevitable sequence of perspectives and responses.

The Sympathetic Nervous System is triggered in full force with its ‘Fight, Flight, Flop or Drop’ survival reaction. With the release of the stress hormone Cortisol (the ‘Hormone of Irrational Pessimism’), creativity is thwarted, leaving its victims stuck on a problem-solving rollercoaster.

Working harder produces inversely increasing success.

Disappointment and ‘burnout’, become inevitable conclusions.

Should the disturbance and disorganization, which a crisis brings, initiate an OPPORTUNITY interpretation, then a different trajectory is pursued.

Just this shift in ‘witnessing’ the circumstances, gives rise to heightened levels of Freedom, Creativity and Mastery.

Serendipitous occurrences support novel and ingenious solutions. What could have been insurmountable roadblocks, suddenly reveal new highways of radically refreshing results.

SO, IS THERE A PREDICTABLE WAY TO ACHIEVE MASTERY IN THE RAPIDLY CHANGING COVID-19 WORLD ?
Maybe the words of Walt Whitman might provide a clue … ‘Re-examine all you have been told, dismiss what insults your soul’.

It would seem then that a ‘clean slate’, a Tabula Rasa's approach, is appropriate.

WHAT THEN ARE THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT ?
SIMPLY: RELAX, REVIEW, REFRAME.

Relax
Understand that an individual encountering a Crisis is an accident on the Highway of life.
So allow the reaction to come to a halt, STOP.
In so doing (Retreat, Rest, Recuperate, Relinquish and Rehabilitate).
Heal the wounds (Physical, Psychological and Emotional).
Return to a place of Balance, Peace and Equilibrium.

Review
Re-examine the circumstances.
Reflect deeply on everything that has emerged for consideration.
Recapitulate: Do a life ‘inventory’, allow old memories to surface, especially the ‘good memories’, the individuals and circumstances for which one is grateful. 
Do a reality check: What is the incontrovertible truth in the story ? 
What has presented itself as the ‘gift’ in all this ?
Restore ORDER to your life based on the insights encountered.

Here are some questions to ponder.
• Who am I ?
• Where am I ? (War zone OR Peace zone)
• Why am I doing what I am doing ?
• Am I problem solving, shackled to an outmoded but obsolete way of thinking, congruent with Danger and being in a War zone ?
• Or, am I in the creation process, suggesting being in a mindset of Opportunity and Optimism ?

Reframe
Here one is challenged to articulate a new Vision.
‘Imagination is more important than knowledge’, said Albert Einstein.
Armed with self-knowledge, self-confidence, imagination, the Opportunity to choose, and the capacity to be resourceful, a new paradigm of refreshing possibilities will emerge.
This is power, an act of liberation, the ability to reconstruct a personal landscape, despite the circumstances.
Depending on the perspective chosen, each individual can inadvertently choose to remain shackled to the past. And in so doing, experience a life of predictable undesirable outcomes.
Or, one can opt to celebrate a life of Peace, Prosperity, Productivity and Redemption, through the harnessing of all available resources, in increasingly creative ways.

It is a New Year, a golden Opportunity to embark on a different life trajectory. 
Why not aim for the stars ?

A lack of success in this venture could still have you soaring ‘Over the Moon’.
Let 2021 be the Opportunity to realize your suppressed and unfulfilled dreams.

ADD YOUR FLOWERING TO THE MAJESTIC GARDEN OF LIFE IN UNALLOYED FREEDOM.

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