Stop Trying To Change The World!

Stop Trying To Change The World!

I mean it. If you really want the world to change … stop trying to change it. It’s a fruitless occupation that never delivers the goodies. Now I realise it’s very tempting to focus your energy and attention on that which is outside of you. After all it makes sense to try and control everything … or does it?

And there is the problem … when you try to do anything; you are on a path to nowhere. Trying is at best “an attempt” and at worst it actually means you are not doing something. Trying to do something is an underhanded way of avoiding telling the whole truth about what you are actually up to. And the whole notion of trying becomes very trying (couldn’t resist)!

Trying to change anything outside of yourself like another’s behaviour, outlook, mindset, feelings or a particular situation, organisation, culture or belief system is really hard work. It takes effort and persuasion and manipulation and usually after all that efforting … it doesn’t work.

If you really want things to change, you have to start with changing what’s inside you. Examine your thoughts and feelings and actions and see where you can choose to change. If you are in the habit of always looking outside first, choose to begin looking inside first. If you are in the habit of wishing and hoping things will change, start BEING the changes you wish to experience. If you want more love start being more loving, if you wish for more acceptance, start being more accepting, if you hope for more of anything, start being more of everything.

When you stop trying to change things you’ll have more energy to create change from within.

Love Lorna

Try? There is no try …

Yoda

Nothing Is Certain

Nothing Is Certain

(Before you read on, take a moment to acknowledge how you are feeling)

Nothing is ever certain, except change … In fact, the only think you can be certain of, is change. This doesn’t mean you have no choice, in fact you have lots of choices in the context of change. You can choose what to change and do something wilfully to make it change. You can choose to fight change and hang onto the past, the way it was with the relentless ‘woulda-coulda-shoulda” conversation in your head. You resign yourself to change and tell yourself you have or had “no choice”. You can accept change “and make the best of it”. All stress making options! Or you can simply be here now, in this present moment, enjoying whatever is so for you, safe in the knowing that everything will change … eventually. And it will keep changing – no matter what you do (or don’t do) and no matter how you feel!

Change must occur for life to go on. No matter what you think, feel, know, do or not do, change is inevitable. So relax, enjoy this moment because it will not come again. See it’s already changed! (Check in again, how do you feel right now?) I bet it’s changed too!

Love Lorna

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