Fluidity Of Change

July 23rd, 2020

Change is the most certain of all things; it therefore follows that aversion to change is at the root of personal human suffering. We grasp to keep hold of the things, people and situations that we attribute our happiness to and live in perpetual fear of losing these things, people and situations. Of losing our happiness.

This isn’t a blog about the concept of suffering in relation to grasping and aversion; this is just a short piece of prose to acknowledge that sometimes we are in a steady flow of routine with all the parts moving nicely, if not perfectly, together and then there comes change, and with this change comes choice.

In these moments of none drastic change, just a slight tweak which moves our flow of routine out of alignment we can choose to stay rigid in our routine, continue even as it no longer moves nicely and certainly not perfectly or, we can take a moment of pause.

“A moment of pause” has become my most useful phrase of the moment; perhaps it was always so. As we have all been led into a moment of pause, a very unsubtle moment of pause, many of us have taken stock, analysed, taken new paths or experienced a place of new gratitude for our lives and the things and people and situations in it.

I am now letting this concept, this ‘moment of pause’, live and flow and exist throughout my life, my life is imbued with moments of pause. In the space between action, between movement, between speech, between breath, comes revelation.

When subtle change changes the easy flow of routine, pause. Allow yourself to see how the change has shifted something out of alignment and allow yourself the beauty of change. Change the routine, even ever so subtly, so the change creates growth, something new and once again full of flow.

Change is certain. Like breath. Like breath, allow change to bring vitality to your world. Flow.