Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go. It's only change.

[lazyJessy]

Don't be a victim in your own life. You know how to fix the problem. Just make changes and free yourself...

As easy as that? What if change is forced upon you?

[joyfirst]

Originally Posted by Lorelyen

As easy as that? What if change is forced upon you?

Then relax into it. It is not what happens to you, it is how you vibrationally react to it, that defines the outcome.

[joyfirst]

Change can be very easy, when we release resistance to it.

[Miss Hepburn]

Change is never easy. You fight to hold on.
You fight to let go. It's only change

Clearing throat.....

Change is easy. There is nothing to hold onto or fear...
the change is transforming and wonderful.

Oh right.... You must ask thousands of people in Cologne about how easy it is to "let go" and accept change if you don't want to have an alien faith forced upon you with your culture under threat. And ask 70 Christian ex-families in Pakistan.... It's dead easy to "let go" when you live in pink-and-fluffy-land.

[Aerin]

Originally Posted by Lorelyen

Oh right.... You must ask thousands of people in Cologne about how easy it is to "let go" and accept change if you don't want to have an alien faith forced upon you with your culture under threat. And ask 70 Christian ex-families in Pakistan.... It's dead easy to "let go" when you live in pink-and-fluffy-land.

You're taking what the OP is saying out of context. To my understanding, the OP is expressing that resolving fear of change is a beautiful way to stop the cyclical mental pattern of self-victimization, which is true.

Your internalized definition of "change" was external whereas his/hers was internal. Lets keep a positive vibe by not jumping to conclusions and trivializing what someone else is saying with snide comments. :)

Originally Posted by Aerin

You're taking what the OP is saying out of context. To my understanding, the OP is expressing that resolving fear of change is a beautiful way to stop the cyclical mental pattern of self-victimization, which is true.

Your internalized definition of "change" was external whereas his/hers was internal. Lets keep a positive vibe by not jumping to conclusions and trivializing what someone else is saying with snide comments. :)

Snide comments?!? ....Buzz off!

She said

>>>Don't be a victim in your own life. You know how to fix the problem. Just make changes and free yourself...<<<

Without qualification. You have qualified it....with your understanding.

Victims in their own lives are usually victims of their circumstances - to which you can a) change within (surrender or do what might be a helluva lot of work to change yourself to better fit what's making you victim) or change without, i.e your circumstances, which can take work. Or you can do both. Hardly trivial in the examples I offered.

Loose statements are open to wide interpretation.

And that's the way it is.

[Clover]

Sure, I am all for change and inspired action. Change builds character and is very necessary for growth but... challenging. Try going through a divorce with children and ask me how easy that was. No, not easy at all and no amount of feel good catch words could change the burden felt by little ones. Nevertheless, this type of change is necessary and highly beneficial for everyone in the long term with an expected successful outcome.

Everyone has their own unique challenges and deals with them differently and many times, it's not just that simple, because sometimes change comes with consequences.
The important thing to do is accept what you can not control an take inspired action to get to a place that liberates your mind to a peaceful state, there is where you will find your reward

[Tanemon]

Originally Posted by joyfirst

Change can be very easy, when we release resistance to it.

All here realize that "change can be very easy" (as you say) - under certain circumstances. But possibly you've got more insight into the process than that.

Joyfirst, please give some examples from your own life. Have you dealt with something like the death of a loved one? being suppressed then disowned by your family? being a "street person" for a time? going bankrupt while having a dependent child?