Here is a summary of some thoughts on what a life transforming process is like, and how a significant life
revolution is different from a more gradual life
evolution. Most of this description is base on ideas in the ebook
Life Transformations by Michelle L Casto. Once again, the key to a life transformation starts with your inner attitude, not necessarily your outward behavior.
The first thing you need to learn about change, is that in order to change your outer reality, you must transform you inner programming. By changing your thoughts, you change your feelings, and thus change your actions. Your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about how life works or doesn't work determine what you will create in your outer world.
Evolution is the process of gradual growth and development. Revolution is taking an incredible direction, often abrupt and sharply different form the past. To experience a life revolution, you need to see with new eyes, to experiment, to learn, and to flow with life. To experience a life revolution, you have to first bring to completion old patterns and processes and then create something radically new.
Get a life makeover. If you want to renovate your life, begin with how you feel on the inside. Have a deep conversation with yourself. strive to know yourself better through self-discovery activities, such as regular journaling. Become a student of your own life - questioning and reflecting on what who you are and what you do.
"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are" - George Bernard Shaw
3 comments:
Yes, BUT, how does one "change" one's thoughts? The first step is to recognize that you are not your thoughts, the objects of your thoughts are not you, to become aware that you are the holder of the space within which thoughts arise, to become familiar with the feeling of non-identification with what arises in consciousness, to cultivate that feeling of pure awareness moment by moment until the feeling, and where it leads is ever more prevalent. There one finds the freedom to choose...
Elisa,
I wonder if your comment was the same as saying the following: a high state of consciousness requires you to be able to step back and examine what is going on in your mind. You need to be able to observe your emotional state, and ask what is causing it, is it justified, and is it the emotional state I want to be in right now? Or perhaps to ask if the way you are thinking about a problem is generating any progress? Or are you getting stuck and need to find a different way to look at it?
Or am I missing something more fundamental in what your are trying to say?
Yes. Step back, but not necessarily examine/judge. Step back and accept all that arises. Truly and fundamentally accept the contents of your mind, emotions. Do not deny them, change them, try to push them away or alter them. Just look at them arising and say "yes" to all of it. This is practicing awareness and fairness... that you give up judging your own thoughts about yourself and just be with what is. That's the first step. It's not about "progress" at all. (And mind you that I'm just beginning to know how to do this. I'm no expert. But it sure is helping me.) I would like to know what you think the end result of "life transformation" that the author is talking about is for you. What is the goal? If you can change your thoughts, make radical left or right turns, what does that get you?
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