Oh how we love to see change – in other people. We would like to see our partner change, our boss, our child, our parent, our neighbor, our politicians. It is so easy to see where they could evolve and become better: more organized, kinder, wiser, more pleasing to us.
It’s a natural thing to want to see other people and circumstances change so they would be more in keeping with your desires. However, that is not how the Universe works, and thankfully so. You certainly wouldn’t want other people to infringe on your autonomy and have the ability to alter your personality, traits, or choices. And of course, you can’t change theirs. Many relationships have suffered in the futile attempt of one trying to change the other.
So what are you to do? When you find yourself in circumstances that are not acceptable to you, what are you to do – just throw your hands in the air and give up?
Actually there is something very powerful you can do that makes full use of the power you do have, and also taps into the power of guidance from Source. They are two simple words you say every day, but put together, their impact can be truly mind blowing….
Those two words are:
Change me.
In the moment of saying those words, everything shifts. You’ve surrendered the battle of trying to control things outside yourself, and are turning your attention and energy inward, to what you do have the power to change – you.
The spiritual journey is full of paradoxes, and this is no exception. It is when you surrender the fight against what is that you are powerful. When you open your heart and mind to Divine understanding and growth, good things happen. This is not about you losing yourself in an effort just to have peace, but rather a call for growth and deepening.
Even if the change is just the ability to see the situation from a different perspective, or to breathe life into a relationship that had felt stagnant, it is a beautiful transformation. When you utter the prayer, change me, you are calling on Source to help you grow and mature spiritually. There is nothing to fear because you do not lose yourself, but rather become more of who you really are.
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