Change Is Inevitable

<p>This Episode is all about change – and your ability to adapt to it. We all know that nothing is permanent, but we still like to hope that things won’t change too quickly. And while we know we’ve made it this far in life, we still often question our ability to be able to handle what life might send our way. </p><p>The inevitability of change and your ziji – your inner radiant confidence that you will be able to handle what comes - are inextricably linked. </p><p> </p><p>Surely we’ve all experienced lots of change in the past two years thanks to the pandemic. But there has been – and continues to be – constant change beyond the pandemic. There are the fires, storms, and earthquakes. AND daily life offers lots of change as well with new jobs, relationship changes, or loss of a loved one. And let’s not forget the ways we try to fight change as it relates to aging, or our bodies changing. </p><p> </p><p>Life is constantly unfolding, and we look for <strong>stability</strong> in it. We hold on to wanting the things we like to not change (but are ready as hell for the hard things to change, right?). We can grasp at this and hold on so tight, but because it is inevitable, we get rope burn. </p><p> </p><p>This is why embracing change as an inevitable part of life that we can handle can be such a huge step in our practice that can help us in so many ways, because that rope burn? That is our emotional suffering that comes from resisting change. </p><p> </p><p>One skill that mindfulness helps us with is to increase our window of tolerance for the changes in life – all the joys <strong>and </strong>sorrows that come with it. To increase, our “window of tolerance” for the joys and the sorrows of life.</p><p> </p><p>And in our own direct experience of mindfulness of our body and mind, we have sensations and emotions that feel so freakin’ intense, and then they disappear. We feel anger and it rises and then at some point passes away. We become mindful of our thoughts and realize that they come and go too - and we recall how i