Fall is one of my favorite times of year. It's so full of action both seen and unseen, and is the place holder of a new beginnings as well as a fading of what was and will never be again.
Change and progression are one of the basics of living life but as humans we tend to fear the changes of life.
Not only does our conscious fear the changes often but according to what I learned in a seminar on the dynamics of the brain, our brain fears change! The brain can experience a direct attempt at changing it as a threat. As such, the fight/flight reaction is triggered and chemicals are released that among other reactions tend to shut down the prefrontal lobe to focus on the "battle" at hand.
So thus the way to encounter my brain with a new habit or new way of being is to simply in peace, and with love for myself, start to learn a new way of living life or being and ignore the other unwanted habit or habits and thus not activate the reactive responses of the brain.
So, living in peace become not just a way of being with others but a way of "living" with ourselves.
Gently and in fact lovingly noticing those habits or way of living that may have supported us in the past but are not working well now.
Often we need others around us to be with us in this process. A friend or a community can support us in the upset and confusion that may result from suspending certain ways of thinking or acting and integrating new ways of thinking and acting.
Those friends can love us through those wintery seasons of change and casting off until there is the new birth of something else fresh and new on the other side.
