Today’s Mandala Message: The Benefits of Change
This week I’m working through Principle #31 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Embrace Change”. I set my intention today to ponder the benefits of changing. Canfield states: “What happened once you surrendered to the change? Did your life actually eventually improve? Can you look back now and say, “Wow I’m glad that happened. Look at the good it eventually brought me.”
More times than not, I have benefited from the changes in my life. Probably the biggest change happened when I began therapy decades ago. It wasn’t exactly my idea to go. My then-husband had given me an ultimatum: either I get therapy or else we get divorced. Being the good Catholic girl that I was, I opted for therapy. I was nervous at first but after three years, I learned so much about myself and how much of my true self I had kept hidden…actually buried. I benefited greatly from it and I’m so glad I went. Oh and by the end of that three years, _I_ filed for divorce! Surprisingly, my very Catholic parents were thrilled. BTW…next week I’m celebrating my 33rd wedding anniversary to my second (and far better) husband.
A good mindfulness practice would be ponder the benefits of a current potential change.
So how about you? How have you benefited from changing in the past? Can you see any benefits to a current potential change? How would others benefit by you going forward with this change?
“It may be hard
— C. S. Lewis
for an egg to turn into a bird:
it would be a jolly sight harder
for it to learn to fly
while remaining an egg.
We are like eggs at present.
And you cannot go on indefinitely
being just an ordinary, decent egg.
We must be hatched or go bad.”
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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