CHANGE OF LIFE The concept of change is relative to time. It is for those who desire improvement in their life. Improvement starts in the mind. You can change your life if you can change your mind. You are the only person who can change your mind. No change will take place unless you allow it. You might need some help in finding out how to change your mind and your life, however. Whatever you keep in it will affect your whole experience of life. Your mind is such a powerful tool. You are quite right if you believe that there is nothing you can do about anything.
You are probably even more right if you believe that you’ve got unlimited potential available to you. Unwanted emotional reactions, empowering emotions, limited choices, flexibility, stress, relaxation, physical illness, and health are some of the things you might wish to change. Imbalances, balance, mysteries, awareness, negative attitudes to positive outlook, fragmentation to wholeness, and passivity into action are some more changes that one often desires to make at some points in their lifetime. Helping you improve your life, there are many types of personal change at work.
There are things you can do by yourself, and there are things you might need a mental or spiritual practitioner to help you with. Available for a person are a great many avenues and techniques. Through a journey of discovery personal change happens. You need to find out more about yourself, such as how you have created your current situation for yourself, how you do things, and how you have been limiting your options. You will find that you already have a lot of positive resources available to you. You will find out a lot more about life and about how you can be in charge of your own along the way.
That you are willing to learn is the only pre-requisite for starting this journey of discovery. You can learn it if you realize that there is something there to learn. You can understand them if you realize that there are things you have not yet understood about yourself and about life. The nature of discovery is that what you will learn might be unexpected and surprising. Your path will become clear only as you are discovering it. When someone would tell you that they know all the answers and that there is only one fixed way of achieving personal development, be suspicious.
What you need is your way, and the answers that are needed are your answers. No answer is fully “wrong”, but it might be used out of context without awareness of where it belongs. The mind contains many wrong answers. To be more precise, any emotional response can be useful in some situations, and not useful in many other situation. The process of realizing and rejecting the wrong answers one has used is called clearing. These wrong answers aren’t just thrown away, but they are returned to the time, place and context where they properly belong.
You might have had a problem with getting angry inappropriately, for example. You might through some process of discovery realize that the anger really belonged with a specific incident 30 years ago. Now that would allow you to clear your undesirable response. Once you discover what it is really about clearing the wrong answer is very easy. It is because you haven’t yet discovered everything about it if it is currently not easy. Sometimes you might think that you know what is “wrong” with you, but it doesn’t resolve it. It just means that there is more work to do. There is something more to learn.
There is nothing wrong with you. This is the truth of the matter. But, you might have incorrectly identified with answers that are currently wrong for you. You can be much more yourself by straightening that out. You can put things in their right place and it brings a greatly increased emotional and mental clarity by clearing your mind. Life can become much more comfortable and simple. We all depend on a whole lot of mental programs to function in life. It is how you do things. These programs are the sub-conscious patterns that determine how we think and respond to situations.
When you talk you don’t have full awareness of your choice of words and the grammatical sentence construction, for example. You probably just feel like saying something, and the sentences somehow come out alright. Most programs are hidden. Sometimes you don’t have an appropriate program for what you want to do. That is when we might want to change the programming of your mind. Sometimes your programs don’t work in the most useful way for you. Programming is important in understanding change and self-fulfillment. The process of establishing useful ways of how to do things is called programming.
That might involve the discovery of how you already do things, the construction of more powerful methods, and the re-training of your sub-conscious. Helping you to get more out of life, your mind is basically a set of tools. You can increase your abilities and your enjoyment by sharpening the tools you have and by adding more tools. In a more resourceful manner that can help you to deal with life. Permanent personal change doesn’t have much to do with conscious intellectualizing. You need to feel and respond different, not just talk differently to be different.
It is very important to engage your sub-conscious mind in any desired change that you wish to make, therefore. Self-fulfillment and personal change can be pursued systematically by engaging in various processes. A process is a distinct activity that addresses an existing situation and gradually changes it into something else. We will work on an issue in a systematic manner is what it basically means. For working on areas where change is desired, processing is the ongoing activity. Many different techniques might be applied.
Typically a technique will be chosen that fits the situation at hand and it will be used until you get a noticable result from it. It is the skilled resolution of issues. Processing is not just random attempts to figure something out. The practitioner will ask you, the client, questions and will ask you to do specific things in a typical processing session. The questions will be intended to help you discover more about yourself. The directions will be intended to help you to develop your personal resources and to experience things differently.
For change and self-fullfillment to happen, processing is simply an educational vehicle to help you change your own way of being for the better. It takes your cooperation to do. With the help of a skilled practitioner you can make magical changes in your life. Processing is not doing something to you. Coming from a number of different sources and disciplines are the different techniques of discovery, clearing and programming that we do. We can call it all Semantic Processing as an overall heading. Semantics is the study of meaning, the underlying mental and spiritual structures that life is based on.
Supplying you with a mind that does what you want it to do, Semantic Processing is therefore a fancy way of saying that we work on understanding your life better. The concept of change is not just important in personality but also in organizations. Self esteem can be influenced by desired change, where the desire is achieved. Personal control can also develop from choices and responsibilty for desired change. As we have discussed earlier, stress and handling stress is linked with dealing with change. There is a need to change or reduce stress created by desired change. In organizations, team nvolvement is the source of support or barriers to desired change. Change can help or hinder motivation. Motivational influences begin or maintain desired change. For a smoker, the change in smoking habit, or trying to quit smoking, can have a strong impact on their personality, particularly on how the person deals with stress. This is also true for someone who over-works, works full-time, works at more than two jobs or is studying and working as well. For a person who doesn’t get enough sleep, doesn’t eat well, and has sick relatives, the need for change is often important in achieving self-fulfillment.
It can refresh the person if the change is good. However, what one must keep in mind is that sometimes some people are hesitant towards change, and can become sensitive towards it. You aren’t just a body or a mind. You are much more. By working on yourself you can gradually discover your own true nature and unleash the tremendous potentials within you. By clearing away the barriers of the mind you can become much more of what you really are. Underneath the appearances there isn’t truly anything wrong with you. You will find that you already have the resources you need.
You might have forgotten how to use them, so it might take some re-discovery to become the complete and whole person you really are. Any change that you can imagine is possible. The changes you can’t imagine will also become possible, as long as you are willing to develop and learn. Life can be wondrous and fascinating. You can expand your awareness, your understanding, and your abilities. Limitation can change into freedom, weakness can change into power, drudgery can turn into joy. All you need to do to start is to realize that it is possible.
