There is so much change happening in my life at the moment that I find it hard to comprehend. Whether big or small, change can be scary and overwhelming and unsettling. And yet it is the only way forward when we feel like we've been stuck for a very long time.

I don't believe that we can ever be fully ready to make a change. Or rather, we can never prepare for the consequences that the change will bring. We just learn to accept them. Live with them. And keep walking. Because there is no other choice, really.

But I do believe that we all know when change is needed and when it would be good for us to make that push out of our comfort zone. Sometimes we're just not willing to admit it. And the longer we stay in denial, the harder it becomes to cut the strings in search for something new, better, happier.

In his famous book, The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, T. K. V. Desikachar shares this lovely observation of what drives us to change:

"Something very personal and essential has to happen to us at the right time, and it has to touch us so deeply that we suddenly really want to pause, consider, and change the course of our actions. After that happens we simply go forward step by step. The quality of our action begins to change."

Understanding that after changing our course of action all we need to do is to keep moving forward makes any kind of change seem a little less scary, if you ask me.

Because, when you think about it, change is almost always for the better. It's just a matter of where on the continuum of change you stop and look back on your journey thus far.

So go for it. Stop. Reflect. Then make that change that you know is needed in your life. Everything else will unfold, just as it should.

Kindly,

Neva.