Change Process Rates

• Sometimes we hear something that changes our life. It is like a stroke of the stick from a master Zen teacher. The light comes on. We begin growing new from then on. Learning new things can help. One way to change is to take a large step. The problem is that we get bipolar reverberations. Sometimes with things like substituting exercise for smoking it is better to take that step. Usually the best way to learn and change is a gradual process. It is plowing the field one furrow at a time.

HOW DOES THE CHANGE PROCESS WORK?

First you must decide you are ready to do what is necessary to change.  The second thing is that you must be ready to face the issues and blocks that you really get angry about and feel bad about. You need to be ready to generate and experience a level of your corrosive anger. Before you have generated your anger you would be wise to have learned enough skills to transform that anger to the authentic energy to do new things and allow your healing.  Allowing your healing and reconciliation with your higher power is the last step... The presence of your higher power will be an experience you can experience when you are ready to allow it.  Your authentic anger, your energy, will carry you to your own authentic experience with your higher power.  When you have learned enough skills you are ready to:

+ GENERATE YOUR ANGER

+ TRANSFORM YOUR ANGER

+ EXPERIENCE YOUR RECONCILIATION WITH YOUR HIGHER POWER

See "The Healing Process" and "The Hurting Process" to put this in context.

HOW LONG DOES THE CHANGE PROCESS TAKE?

The length of time depends on how much you want your change and how fast you can safely accept your change.  If your change is too fast you could experience damage to yourself.  It would simply be handling too much energy that you are not skilled enough to handle.  In the Disney movie "Fantasia", Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice got to experience this problem.

There is a story about how much someone can want their change.   Once upon a time a disciple came to John the Baptist in the river Jordan. He said, "I thirst for ENLIGHTENMENT."  John grabbed his disciple by the neck and thrust him under the waters.  The startled disciple began to struggle and then finally with a mighty thrust, he got his head above the water and grasped for his breath.  John said, "When you thirst and struggle for ENLIGHTENMENT as much and you thirsted and struggled for your breath while under the waters, you will have it."

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN NEXT?

Are you ready to continue your process?  You have already started by reading this electronic booklet.  Now you can ask yourself these questions to align your feelings with your dream:

• What do you really want?
• What will you feel like when you get that?
• How else can you get that feeling?
• What kind of assistance do you need?
• How can you get your assistance?
• Return to the first question and continue your process until you find what what you really want.

You know when you reach your bottom line and your answers remain the same.