Embracing Change and Breaking the Mental Challenges

Adjusting through transformation...the beauty in the process

Change can be a difficult process and for some, the pain of change overcomes the benefit of growth. Unfortunately, the result is stagnancy. Stagnancy in thoughts, words and action. See, what we must understand is that there is a pain in change. It is a part of growth, just as we were birthed. 

Here is a story, I found. The Author is Unknown. But the teaching is quite great as we apply it here with the pains in change.

What Avoiding Pain Cost the Emperor Moth

A man found a cocoon of an Emperor Moth. He took it home so that he could watch the moth come out of the cocoon.On the day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours, just watching as the moth struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared to have gotten as far as it could.. It just seemed stuck.Then the man, in his kindness, decided to help the moth. So he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The moth emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small shriveled wings. The man continued to watch. He expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and open out to be able to support he body. Neither happened! The moth spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.What the man in his kindness and haste didn't understand was this; in order for the moth to fly, it needed to experience the restricting cocoon and the painful struggle as it emerged through the tiny opening. This was a necessary part of a process to force fluid from the body and into the wings so that the moth would be ready for flight once it achieved freedom from the cocoon. Freedom and flight would only come after allowing painful struggle. By depriving the moth of struggle, the man deprived the moth of health.

~Author Unknown

So as painful or challenging things may appear, it is essential for true growth that we push past these fears, recognize the growth process and respond accordingly. Resisting the urge to "react" to change in a negative pattern. But in contrast, go with the flow and accept the fluidity.

At times, it is not easy. Trust me. But when endured, the gain from going THROUGH is much more rewarding.