The waves of change

Change unsettles us.  As a species we are adverse to change, even if it is the only constant in your lives.  Such is the irony of life! 

The reason it unsettles us is because, up to now, we have approached change mentally.  We have wanted to arrest it, to halt it, to avoid it or, at the very least, to understand it.  In short, we have run at change with a giant full stop and we have been trampled by it.  One may as well try to stop the seasons changing by simply standing still.

That was then; in this New Age, change is about wisdom not control, about power not force.  Change is supremely malleable if we approach it with our hearts instead of our minds.  This is how the surfer rides the surf; not by calculating the rate of descent of the wave, but by surrendering to the wave's dance and feeling into it, allowing herself to be carried by its vast energy.  In that moment, surfer and wave become one.  They are united, part of the same energy flow, each enriched by the other.

Nothing is stagnant.  That was the old paradigm. 

Fluid: that is the mantra of our times.  From architecture to change management, it's all about the flow.  From fusion cooking to international migration, it's all about the flow.  The flow of life.  The flow of ideas.  The flow of energy.

Life's invitation is to move to its rhythm, rather than resist it.  Life's invitation is listen within, to follow the gentle prompts of the heart, the moments of intuition and insight, as it whispers to us.  This is how we dance with the wave of life, this is how we are constantly in the right place at the right moment.