How Change Promotes Growth

                Learn to confront the things that you do not like about yourself.  Take a serious look at who you are and the life that you are currently living.  Take an inventory of the things that you like about yourself and your current situation, but pay more attention to the things that you do not like, which are the things that you might consider changing about your life.  It is important that we appreciate the talents, the gifts, and those things that we consider assets.  These are those things that we want others to see in us, yet in order to live a happy, chaos-free life, we must confront the things we do not like and we do not appreciate about ourselves.  Confronting our personal dislikes takes courage, and it takes an openness to change.  Keep in mind that having the courage to change is not always easy…for none of us.  Maintaining an openness to change is not easy either.  Change is at times a difficult thing, but in order to learn and grow as a person, change has to occur.

                Learn to view change as a positive thing.  I can feel some of you getting a bit uncomfortable with that statement!  As I mentioned, change is a must in order for growth to occur.  Without change, without flow, without growth we stagnate.  Our lives becomes full of predictability, which leads to failure of living up to our individual potentials.  Take for instant our nutrition.  By changing our nutritional intake to primarily include healthy whole foods, we are increasing the likelihood of growth.  We grow in our understanding of proper nutrition, we grow towards achieving a Wellness Based Lifestyle, we grow in our ability to better understand our body, and we grow in discipline.  Same thing holds true for adding a structured and consistent exercise routine into our lifestyles.  Our muscles grow, our physical, spiritual, emotional and social wellness grows, and we grow in our understanding of the mind-body connection among other areas.  Do not fear change, embrace it! By doing so, I can assure you that you experience positive gorwth in your life!