Stop resisting change
With the right mindset, adapting to change can be a force for growth
THE Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that you can’t step into the same river twice, for you aren’t the same person at each visit, and the water is ever flowing. It is a powerful way to represent the reality of impermanence: Everything is always changing.
Yet, so many people have fraught relationships with change. We deny it, resist it or attempt to control it – the result of which is almost always some combination of stress, anxiety, burnout and exhaustion. It doesn’t have to be that way.
No doubt, change can, and often does, hurt; but with the right mindset, it can also be a force for growth. It’s not as if we have any choice in the matter. Like it or not, life is change. We’d be wise to shift our default position from futile resistance to being in conversation with change instead.
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