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“You are a butterfly in the making marking its effect on the world in an ever present landscape of change”. This three part article explores how we undergo transformation in response to the challenges we are presented with and what supports positive growth.

To grow is to change. Nature’s fundamental law is that all things are in constant change. What fuels this change gives form to our lives. Without accepting and embracing change we stagnate and become complacent. Resistance to challenging our comfort zones breeds a behaviour of avoidance, which ultimately is a fear of change. To fully open our eyes to the opportunities that change offers, creates an awareness to the possibility of self- determinism – that we are truly the creators of our destiny. Regardless of your faith and beliefs in spirit, nature has forces that operate guiding your path in life, which are regulated by your choices. Your everyday decisions, whether small or large, transform your very being. You are a butterfly in the making marking its effect on the world in an ever present landscape of change.

We often hear the term being an introvert or an extravert; terms describing a personality type respectively of one being inward or outwardly focused energetically. There is an equal need to be introspective and centered in the awareness of our selves, as there is to be objective and attuned to the activities and our interactions with our surroundings. However, we sometimes attach stigmas to each of these personality types depending on our own beliefs of how one should be and what we are comfortable with. We all hold a certain inward narrative that we project onto our interactions with the world; which in turn are responded to by our environment creating a perpetual feedback loop shaping and reinforcing our identity. Depending on how desirable or how purposeful this pattern of behaving is we either become stuck in this routine of being, or we shift our awareness to a more encompassing perspective that supports growth. These shifts, depending on their scope, can be life changing, as they require a leap of faith. To surrender to ones fears and risk abandoning the safety of the known is a quantum leap in faith – one that changes you at the cellular level. High performance athletes operate from this fundamental premise, as they completely trust the capabilities of their whole being and activate their full potential, without any contamination of disbelief or resistance. They are in the energetic flow of connectedness.

Author: David Kalmar

Psychologist

“Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.” – Dan Millman