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How To Find Comfort While Living In The Chrysalis Of Change

July 24, 2018 By Julian Kaufmann

Emerging Beauty

Life Is Constantly Evolving and Progressing

Sometimes the changes we experience in life are gradual and almost imperceptible. For example, we may not notice our own aging until we compare photographs taken over several years. Through this perspective of contrast, we can easily note the passing of time and the attendant changes in the subtle transformation that typifies the cyclic nature of life.

Other times, life can seem incredibly destructive, resulting in dramatic transformations. Some type of cataclysmic event occurs and afterward our life is fundamentally altered. A loved one dies, we lose a job, we get divorced. These events are discontinuities and are very disruptive.

The third way of life change we experience is somewhere in the middle between the gradual and destructive. During this type of evolution, we recognize that we are in the midst of something but most of our life seems to be the same,  at least outwardly. We notice that something is different and we may have a vague notion that it is the beginning of the end of the world as we know it. Inwardly we have the awareness of forces affecting us and we feel that we are isolated from the life we know. Something is happening to us and it is of singular impact. It can seem lonely and frightening while being ensconced in this cocoon of change.

Freeing Too Soon

Once upon a time, a small child came upon a butterfly in its cocoon. The child had recently learned about the caterpillar’s life transition into a butterfly and felt sorry for the little creature trapped in the silky chamber. The child with the best intentions decided to free the butterfly from its cocoon. Unfortunately, the now free butterfly was not able to fly as it had not had the time necessary to develop its wing thanks in part to the resistance of the very cocoon the small child had removed it from. The child’s intervention did not allow the full transformation of the butterfly to occur.

If you or a loved one is in the change cocoon, love them while leaving them to undergo their transformations. Have compassion for the situation and trust that the divine forces at work will bring about changes that ultimately reveal the highest form – the highest good. Given time and the right environment, eventually, you, now transformed like the beautiful butterfly, will emerge. In your time, you will spread your wings.  While you are in your chamber remember that the world needs this new version of you. And in time we all will be grateful for the metamorphosis.

Present For The Change

It takes courage to undergo and witness life’s transformative changes. Whether it is you or your loved one, we all at some point will spend some time in the change cocoon. In order to facilitate change, we should strive to be fully present for our selves and our loved ones. Being present, being in the here and now fully, is the cornerstone of optimal experience. I have been studying and practicing ways to encourage more presence in my life – body, mind, and spirit. My next book The Power of Presence –  How To Amp-Up Your Life provides a how-to-guide on showing up at your best. If you would like to be part of the Prime Mover Team and get early, free access to the book and related resources before it is released, please sign up here.

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Filed Under: Change, Presence, Transformation Tagged With: Change, Chrysalis, Power, Presence

Songs of Change

August 2, 2016 By Julian Kaufmann

four seasons in the treetops
four seasons in the treetops

2,600 years ago Heraclitus was credited with an important maxim for us as we try to live our life. He said, “The only constant in life is change.”

Still centuries later we often try in vain to turn back the advance of time, fighting a losing battle. Plastic surgery and all sorts of elixirs promise us the fountain of youth. How we want to hold onto youthful beauty.

Trying to mask over our outward appearance we can become oblivious to the changing nature of life. We can become lulled into complacency as each day, while unique, begins to blend into the next. We get up, we work, we come home, and we go to bed and repeat again tomorrow.

Then we are blindsided, taken aback when some dramatic change occurs in our life. For example, we exclaim how could this happen when a loved one leaves us – even though at some level we all know that our time here is limited.

Change can occur subtly and almost imperceptibly but it is occurring nonetheless. Perhaps this is why when I went to a 33-year high school reunion, everyone else had aged while I still felt the same.  In reality, I am sure my friends saw the same passage of time reflected in me as I saw in them.

While the outer me has gone through visible aging, the real me, the inner me, – my soul, my consciousness, my awareness, my witness, my watcher, whatever you call the higher-self, has been observing and taking part in this evolving, flowing life since I became manifest nearly 50-years ago.

I have become quite comfortable with change and this level of comfort began by processing that change is the very nature of life itself. Rather than being swept along by the winds of change, I learned I could allow them to blow through me.

The sooner we make peace with the reality of the impermanence of things, the sooner we can transcend all the strife and reside in a place of peace of contentment.

To this end here are a few songs about change that have some valuable information as well as being great tunes to listen to:

Turn! Turn! Turn! – The Byrds
Turn! Turn ! Turn!

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose, under heaven

Based on the book of Ecclesiastes 3 in the Bible, this song beautifully captures and describes the ebb and flow of life.

Changes – David Bowie
Changes
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)
Turn and face the strain

Change can be uncomfortable, but we can’t run from it. We should instead be open and accepting to the strange new that results from change. We can instead allow it to occur. Rather than resisting the strain of change, we can go with the pull of the change and go for a ride. When facing the strain, instead of pulling against it, we are not opposing the energy of the change itself. We conserve energy when we go with the Flow rather than when we oppose it.

Don’t Change – INXS
Don’t Change
Don’t change a thing for me

I have always liked this song. The chorus line that says “Don’t change a thing for me”, conveys that we should accept others where they are in their life without judgment. Live and let live.

Across The Universe – The Beatles
Across The Universe

My favorite of the songs about change is Across The Universe. To me, this song conveys the sublime truth of our connection with God.

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai Guru Deva OM
 Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Nothing can change your world when you are the change itself.

Om

 

Filed Under: Acceptance Tagged With: Change, Resistance, Seasons

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