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Fall a time of change…

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It’s been a vivid and colorful fall this season here in West Michigan. There must have been an optimum combination of elements for such a gorgeous production that Mother Nature has provided this fall. Even now with more browns and bare trees some are still changing from greens to yellow and oranges outside my windows. I don’t have to look far to see a gorgeous display.

Fall is a good reminder for me: change is…it just is…life is change.

I’ve kept a tea tag from several years ago that I read daily during my meditation practice: “The only constant is change”. I kept it because I need that reminder! I am one who likes to cling to what she wants life to be especially when things are going the way I prefer them! And I tend to fight against that which isn’t exactly what or the way I want it to be.

I am pretty much a typical human being like the rest of us…want what I want and want it now!

My meditation practice helps me to be more mindful of some of the moments when I am fighting against what is. I say some because I get all caught up in my thoughts.

It takes practice to catch my thinking and see it for what it really is: just a thought not reality.

When I assign a judgment thought about what is going on my whole body reacts with that judgment. The potential reactions are endless as are the results for me too…particularly when I object to what is going on! I create a tension inside. Sometimes that can be rather explosive.

Life is in constant change. I can’t change that reality. Wanting it not to be so really is a death of sorts in itself, for without change we would not exist!

With practice I can however learn to ride the waves of change and just like those colorful leaves that float so gracefully so merrily to the ground and I can find a joy that only acceptance can bring. One moment at a time!

What might you be resisting or fighting against in this very moment?