Changing Seasons, Changing Mindset

Posted on September 3, 2021
Archive : September 2021
Category : Ripples Blog

Changing Seasons, Changing Mindset



As the seasons change do you feel it ?   A smell in the air, a chill, shorter days to come and darker earlier at night.    The seasons are changing but do we go with it or ignore it, embrace or resist it?


Do you have a favourite season and one you absolutely hate or do you embrace them all for what they bring to you.  I love the autumn and its gorgeous colours and hazy days but for many years I hated the winter.  Now I absolutely embrace it, I love the hunkering down the cozyness and the change of pace.   Instead of resisting it, getting annoyed, moaning (a lot ...)  I chose to change my mind and to accept "what is" and look for the good things about it.   That one seeming simple idea had eluded me for most of my life.  I can change my mind.


So my invitation to you is to examine your attitude to something that you have always thought, always said, always moaned about.  What if you simply accepted it, just as it is, without resistance?   I used to laugh at some of the sayings I saw and thought then rather trite, but the one that now comes to my mind is "when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change".   That's exactly it, you see with fresh eyes : a paradim shift.    How about taking some time to look at your list of things you resist and see if you can find a fresh perspective.  If you are feeling especially brave how about looking at some of the people you find challenging, can you see them differently?

Discuss this idea with your friends and family and see what you can see differently this month.   Namaste.

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