I am changeable.
Almost disconcertingly so to the people who know me. I am forever transforming. And it is markedly visible, noticeable, even to people who live with me.
I was not always this way. More accurately, I did not always allow myself to be this way.
I remember the first time I decided to embrace and express a new change in myself, in my personality. I was in my late teens.
I was happy and I was proud of my decision internally. I felt freer for having chosen and embraced my inner transformation.
Then a very close friend of mine took me aside one day and said the following words to me, very seriously, “You have changed. I don’t like the new you. I liked you better before you changed.”
I never forgot that moment. It was emblazoned in my mind like an indelible scar.
I learnt that it was wrong to express the new person I knew I had become on the inside even if it made me happier.
Change Is The Only Constant
We are Source, incarnate in the physical. One of our greatest desires as Source is to experience boundless diversity.
Therefore we, as Source, created change. For change creates unlimited opportunities for us to experience diversity.
Change can be thought of as a universal force, at least in our reality, affecting all things and beings within our co-created reality.
We, as spiritual beings in physical shells within this co-created reality, are subject to the principle of change on all levels of our being, internal as well as external.
All Change Starts Within
An ancient wisdom states, ‘As above, so below. As within, so without.’
As a form of creation, all change will begin within and manifest without.
This is yet another universal principle that affects all things and beings within our co-created reality.
You will change and transform from one state to another during the course of your life and that change will begin in the subtle levels of your being and will eventually be made manifest on the visible, physical plane of your experience.
Why Would We Fear To Express Our Inner Transformations With Joy?
We are constantly changing beings.
Yet, this is something many of us often fear, whether on a conscious or subconscious, aware or unaware level.
Many of us have equated the expression of personal change and transformation with the disruption of our social circle and status quo.
Therefore, we fight it and we often fight harder against the expression of change in ourselves.
We fear the loss of peers and friends, and the disapproval and alienation from family, odd looks and misunderstandings from colleagues.
We are taught that it does not pay to express transformation in ourselves to our social circle, or even the outside world.
If we started out as Person A, we are expected to remain Person A till the end of our days, for the comfort and ease of the people around us.
Accepting Our Changeability As A Gift And A Strength
Since that scarring incident in my youth, I have come a long way.
From fearing, judging and being ashamed of my changeable nature, I have since come to not only accept it, but to embrace it with joy and pride.
I embrace my inherent birthright and understand that one of my highest desires as Source is to enjoy the diversity of experience available to me.
I watch myself as I transform within and I freely express it when it is ready to manifest.
Yes, it can be disconcerting to the people around me, but I have also come to learn that I would rather surround myself with people who desire more to know me as who I am in each new and fresh moment, than as a stale, fixed and outdated state of me that I no longer resonate with.
I desire the same for anyone.
I recognize in them, too, their inherent birthright to be free to change and nothing pleases me more than to be able to celebrate with friends who have come through a transformative process and are now manifesting the fruits of their experience.
