Change

Change. It comes slowly most of the time. It comes so slowly most of the time that we do not even attempt to change. We do something for a day, a week, a couple of weeks, or even a month if we are really persistant, but we rarely keep at it long enough to see actual change in our lives. We tell ourselves how hard it is to change, and who wants to do hard things when there are easy things available to do!
However, true change and transformation comes from consistent action. We find this hard. We think that we should never be angry, sad, frustrated, or anxious. So when these feelings come up our tendency is to deny that we have these feelings and supress them because we "should have changed by now." We take our everyday lives, the things that we can attend to and be aware of to actually change.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Romans 12:1-2

So unlike everyone around us, when anger, sadness, dissappointment, anxiety comes up do not deny it, allow it to tell you something about yourself. Become aware of the seed of that negative emotions and focus your attention on God and what you may need to learn. Why am I angry? What is making me so anxious? What am I thinking that is getting me to feel this way? Is what I am thining true? Can I change that thought, action, or belief? How would God want me to think about this situation? How can I have the mind of God, the mind of Christ?

When we deny these things about ourselves, change is impossible! We can not change anything by denying it and acting like it is not there. The seed (the beginning) of my anger, sadness, anxiety is the thing that needs to be transformed so that real change can happen - from the inside out! There is no other way to change - to be transformed! So today become more aware, stop denying what is going on inside of you, recognize where the actions and feelings you do not like are coming from and transform those seeds. This takes time, consistent, daily effort to be aware and alive to your self. Love yourself this way today so that you can love others better!

Namaste'