Working with Change

Daily Reflection
Life is about change. Change is all around us and is continually reoccurring. Today I want you to think about how you respond to change. Do you embrace change? Do you struggle against it? Do you lie to yourself and say, "oh, things have not really changed." Do you mourn the change? How does change affect you?

In your journal today, reflect on some of the major changes in your life - a move, a birth, a death, etc and think about how you responded to this change. Try to answer some of the questions I ask above and also think about these questions - did I handle this change harmoniously or did I cause myself suffering? How can I best work with change in my life?

Swami K

Standing in Your Own Way

Daily Reflection
While many of us know that we are the artists of our own lives and that what we think we will become, we never quite seem to get there because we are standing in our own ways. We want to make a change. We might even know how to make that change but we find that each day we wake up and things are the same. It is important to pay attention to why we don't make that change and why we are standing in our own ways. We might not be ready to do things differently.

In your journal reflect on how you might be standing in your own way. What patterns are you repeating that cause the same results? What small change could you make to the pattern in order to get different results? Are you ready to make this change? If not, how could you live more harmoniously until you are ready?


Swami K