Day 158: The Quiet Ways We Change

Why do some weeks feel so long and others just fly by?

It probably has something to do with the heaviness or lightness of what fills the time.

I heavy week can feel very long.

Or in my case, 3 days can feel like a week or more.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve had so many things happening at the same time, and so many fires to put out.

Last night I was thinking I had been here 3 days and then I remembered I was here for two days waiting for everything to be finalized to move the motorhome.

Does this ever happen in your life?

I’m thankful to say it rarely happens in mine any more.

But it takes it happening to realize that.

Which is true with a lot of things.

We shift, change, grow, become more aligned and calm, and it all happens so naturally that we don’t even notice.

Until something occurs and we realize we don’t react the same anymore, or we don’t care about the same things, or something that used to bother us doesn’t now.

Maybe something that used to be a pet peeve, is now like water off a duck’s back.

And you just smile. Maybe silently give yourself an internal high-five.

I big reason people don’t want to do any kind of self-improvement is they convince themselves that it means they have to give up something they don’t want to. Start doing things they don’t want to. And possibly lose friends because they have changed.

None of those things are true.

Otherwise how could some many of the changes that happen in our lives occur without us even noticing until a situation comes up that brings it to our attention.

The most lasting changes and most profound shifts bring us home to ourselves.

That can only be good.

It isn’t loss, or painful.

A lot of the time, it’s completely unconscious.

We start to notice our emotions and ask ourselves if we’d like to feel a better emotion right now.

That raises the vibration we are sending out into the world to something that feels better.

And before you know it, we are having more positive thoughts than negative ones.

Then we notice we are responding from a place of alignment instead of a reacting from negative emotions that push our buttons.

And it takes something like the last few days I’ve had to bring up a big bundle of situations to deal with and emotions that need to be acknowledged to point out how much has changed since there was something similar to be dealt with.

Compared to the major things in life, what I went through this week is such a tiny little blip.

But it’s an observable example of how to experience the changes that naturally shift who we are as we go through life.

Today’s Gentle Practice

Notice today if there is something that once would have deeply upset, triggered, or emotionally consumed you that no longer affects you the same way.

Maybe your reaction is softer now.

Maybe you recover faster.

Maybe you simply don’t care in the same way anymore.

Instead of overlooking that shift, acknowledge it.

Growth often happens so gradually and naturally that we don’t notice it while it’s happening.

Sometimes it takes contrast for us to finally recognize how much we’ve changed.

And those quiet internal shifts matter more than we realize.

With you,

Lynn