change. are you resisting or embracing it?

Please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” -Kurt Vonnegut

so I will say it, you may be tired of hearing it, or thinking it yourself, it has been a year. it's been a year!

we have all experienced loss, grief, and despair. we have all changed our lives, routines, and quite frankly our mental disposition--it's been a year. we've adjusted sometimes with great effort and sometimes it's subtle enough not to notice. we, as humans, do not like change. we are skeptical, afraid of, resistant to, something new. that is biologically imbedded in us. it's the survival instinct. hundreds? thousands? of years ago we needed to be skeptical of a change in our environment; it could mean injury or death.

today that same resistance and dislike of change is in us even when our survival isn't threatened. as I always joke, there are 2 things students don't like to change: where they place their mats in a studio, and their teacher. even though this change would do us good, we still resist.

which brings me to this thought: as we move back to "normal," it's a change. so inevitably there will be resistance, a dislike that may show itself in interesting ways--some obvious and some not so obvious. how can we manage our resistance to a change that is completely unknown (again)?

my idea? the words of wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut:

"Please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'

-light your lamp & you light the world

june