Our Capacity for Change

Our Capacity for Change
 
Some things are just true. There's not a huge amount of these true things. One of them is that all humans have a built-in capacity for change.
 
We are built to notice, have insights, and effortlessly change. Wait. What?!? Effortlessly! Yes. Effortlessly. We do it all the time, every day, and we don't always realize it.
 
Another true thing is that humans exist before all thought, emotions, behaviour. Who and what you are isn't your thoughts, certainly not your emotions, and most decidedly not your behaviour.
 
“Well then,” I can hear you shout, “what am I?”
 
You are possibility. You are cosmic energy in motion. You are the same intelligence that spins the planet and burns the stars. You are. Before. Before all creation, you are.
 
What does that imply about our capacity for change? Well, not to put too fine a point on it, you are infinitely changeable. 
 
We are creators of all of our experience. Want a different experience?
 
Notice. Notice what is.
 
I noticed that I was eating too much sugar. I didn't want to reduce sugar however, I noticed that my joints were more sore than I liked. I was not able to exercise and move how I wanted to. I know from past explorations with reducing sugar that my inflammation goes way down, and I feel a lot better without sugar.
 
I kept noticing for a while. Nothing changed. This part can take time. I ate sugar and ate sugar and ate some more sugar, and I was sore. I wondered. What if I ate less sugar?
 
Then I had an insight. I realized in an expanding knowing. It felt just true, and I knew that I was going to eat less sugar. It wasn't doing anything for me.
 
Then I noticed I was naturally eating less sugar and actually a lot less in general.
 
Noticing, Insight, and Change all go hand in hand in hand. Once you notice and have an insight, change happens in an instant. You know.
 
Sometimes in different orders but all are involved.
 
“But, but, but,” you say, “I still eat sugar and I'd like to magically stop! Why doesn't that work for me?”
 
If something hasn't changed, that you want to drop, then it's because you haven't noticed how it's not helping you.
 
In the sugar example, lots of people will eat sugary foods to distract themselves from habits of spinning thoughts and the tension or emotional turmoil the spinning creates. As long as you spin in your thoughts and eating something tasty slows you down to give relief from the spin, then you will want to eat the desserts. It's a clever strategy. In this case, learning to slow down enough to recognize that you already have a quiet mind under the noise will take away the need for overeating or sugary eating.
 
In my case, a strong, delicious flavour brings my entire focus to that flavour, and any thoughts drop away. Ahhh! A quiet mind. Except...I (and everybody else) already have a quiet mind. Slowing internally deliberately brings it into focus, dropping the need for a substance to do the job.
 
Every human being has the innate capacity to change effortlessly. In my coaching work with people, we do a deep dive into how we are marvellously designed and how to live that way. Marvellously.
 
I would invite you today to simply notice. And in noticing, slow a bit.

With Love, 

Sara Joy