What is the difference between Change and Transformation?

I managed athletic clubs for many years in my twenties and thirties, and without exception those who were unsuccessful in accomplishing their goals tried to change what they did without first changing how they saw themselves.  Changing what we do is only temporary unless we first manage to change what we see.  Change happens from without, transformation happens from within.  These are not “put on our happy face” platitudes, but the most important skills you will ever re-learn.  I say re-learn because we all had them as a child, before we were as Juan Miguel Ruiz says in the Four Agreements “Domesticated”.

Begin by changing your physiology.  Thoughts are never just thoughts they all carry with them emotions and all this bad news has taken a terrible toll on our “emotional accounts”.  Exercise, read something inspirational, help someone less fortunate, or find a reason to laugh.  Stress can take an irreversible toll.  Last week a young lady (57) posted an incredibly brave article about her experience with early onset Alzheimers.  She had been a former executive with YMCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters but always found herself too busy to exercise.  Now she says “exercise has become a religion“.   Exercise is fun, endorphins are awesome.  If you can’t shake up the outside try a little laughter to stir up the inside.

Everything you experience reaches every cell of your body.  The belief that we are whole, solid and separate is an illusion.  We are simply energy vibrating at a rate visible to our eyes and palpable to our senses.  What we attend to determines not only what we feel but also -+impacts the energy fields and therefore the feelings of those around us.  What if tomorrow instead of listening to the news we all started off with our favorite clean comic?  Not those who demean and abuse, but those that lift us up, bring us together, and remind us what children already know.  All we have is now, and we always have a choice in where to place our attention.

The better we understand how we are complicit in the creation of all we experience, the less we are willing to inflict pain on ourselves and others.

Less pain = More peace.  The question is simple.  How peaceful are you?