About Change

Everything changes

Our world is a place of change. It functions as it does because everything is constantly changing. Stability is a transient state by definition in this universe. I'm probably not telling you anything new.

Yet Western civilization led to industrialization, and with rationalization, made us practice predictability, stability, and repetition. As a result, we no longer practice responding to change enough to feel at home. Yet it is inherent in all living things. Nothing in this universe, from galaxies to electrons, is fixed. Besides, what does fixed mean, except that it does not change in relation to us .

Embrace change, embrace the world

If I am able to welcome what is changing and embody it, make it my own, include it in my world by dancing with it, then I have understood what trips up most of us when we try to change our lives. Something deep within us resists change. This part wishes there were a plan, simple steps to follow that would yield an immediate, concrete, and tangible result. Sometimes this happens. Most of the time, if we truly want to change, that is, to experience something we do not yet know, we must embrace the surprise change that inevitably comes with our intention. And act on this change, otherwise we will not be able to achieve what we seek to achieve.

Einstein and what needs to change

Some people try to adjust the world to their own arrangement. They modify the material around them with great force and considerable means. They want to shape their environment to reduce the friction they feel when faced with what they cannot control. And this is the dream of many of us: to earn enough money to live in my dream house, to treat myself to the trip of my dreams, to choose what I experience at every moment without there being any friction. Yet, what I am looking for is almost never the image of what I already know, of what I already want. If someone asks me what I am looking for and I answer too precisely, it is because this search is useless: I already know what I will find there. On the other hand, if I simply feel that something is happening there that will make me grow, without me being able to precisely describe it, then it is likely that it will be really interesting for me to travel that path. Einstein put it very simply: "You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that created it." Therefore, the quest for ease, friction reduction, and repetition of the known can be seen as nothing more than repeating the same without evolution, but consuming environmental resources. Whereas if I learn from my practices and consciously evolve them into their next chapter, I am contributing, I am bringing something into this world that did not yet exist.

In a brain, everything is configurable

You may tell yourself that some things cannot change. And I would answer that this belief is the first thing to change if you want these things to change. I think that one of the best ways to change this belief is to question what needs to believe it, to understand it deeply, and to apply kindness and attention to it. From there, what results from it gains the freedom to change.

Learning to embrace change

One of the things I've learned over the past few years is that everything changes, including my perception and experience of change. At first, it was a source of fear and suffering. Then it was experienced as a necessary evil; then as a living space in its own right; and finally, it became comfortable and fluid; then I got used to the new state and sought to maintain it, and change became a source of discomfort again. Change can be as much a part of your habits as any routine, as long as it is a regular practice, and best of all, it is deliberate, because then my practice is not based on fear, avoidance, or anger, but on a state of being of progression. And what you find there can become as obvious as what you seek.

If you make change a deliberate practice, you equip yourself with a tool that can be used in all the challenging situations along your path.

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