Are You Ready for Change?
One thing that you will need to consider when you decide that you want to change your life for the better is that change involve a degree of discomfort because it means giving up the security of your established ways. Earlier, the course focused on the positive aspects of freedom, mainly, living your life the way you want to live it. But when you realize that you really are free to live life differently, it is easy to get nervous about change. We want guarantees that living life differently will actually make us happier, but there are no such guarantees in life, only probabilities. If eighty percent of a group of people report being happier after adopting some practice, you cannot know whether it will work for you or if you will be in the twenty percent.
Also, you might worry that the people around you will not like “the new you.” This is a realistic concern. Generally speaking, people do not like to see change in others. They prefer predictability. This is particularly true when others have taken advantage of who you have been. Let’s say you have been a doormat for others, always putting their needs first, but then you begin to start thinking of your own needs. It makes sense that others might try to keep you from changing because they wouldn’t be able to use you anymore. That would be something you will have to deal with.
In the end, the decision about making changes is up to you. This course does not try to persuade anyone into changing. It merely provides food for thought. Your job is to digest that food and make decisions about how you want to live your life.