Inevitable Change

Everything must change. It is inevitable, but you might think otherwise if you watch how hard some people work to stay the same and try to control things so that they just don't move, thinking then that they are safe. Safe from the unknown, safe from all the scary things out there that are known that they think they can avoid if they just stay in their lane, hide behind the curtain and not invite anything in that will rock their world. All that couldn't be further from the truth because the truth is that the Creator and the Universal energies will not allow us to stay stagnant because it is a primary dictate and job for our Creator to nudge, coax and if we are slow learners, force us into change, and thus growth. If you've read my book The Next God, you understand the perspective from which I speak.

So if change is inevitable, like all other fluid energy, if you roll with the flow, you have fewer abrasions. Think of an Akido practitioner and how they use the energy of the opponent to win the fight. The better they are at redirecting energy or attacks, the more successful they are in the confrontation. Life is like that as well. When confronted with change, instead of stiffening up and resisting it, if we met that energy with like energy and rolled with it or shared its direction, we have a gentler encounter as we join the energy to go in the new direction. Envision the difference between Jai Alai and tennis. In Jai Alai, the ball is caught and thrown in one fluid motion making the player able to just be a conduit for the energy of the ball, not the opposition for the ball. In tennis, the ball is banged back to the opponent putting more stress on the ball and the player who has to counter and exert the force and energy to do so. Certainly the ball, or change in our scenario, has a more difficult time affecting the motion of the player while being battered back, than it has a chance to affect positively the motion of the player when caught and thrown back. When compared to one another, tennis looks like a fight with a ball (or change) while Jai Alai looks like a dance with a ball.

So which would you rather do? Fight or dance? Therein lies the question that we all must ask when confronted with the inevitable balls of change. Would you prefer the fluidity of going with the flow, or the rigidity of fighting it and banging it back - only for it to come back and confront you again? If you have that change, or ball come back fifty times in a row, which method do you think provides the least amount of wear and tear on the player?

So player, are we flowing or banging? Dancing or fighting? The ball is going to come back either way, because that is the Creator's, God's, the Universe's way of teaching us. I choose to dance, now, but that's only after a lot of years of banging and fighting! The younger we learn this the better for the wear and tear, on us. There appears to be an endless supply of balls out there. So I say choose wisely.