Change is not static, passive or just a ‘once of’ event. Change is not an incident; it is a process. Process implies something is started, set in motion and given power to move forward. Process stimulates constant states of growing and becoming. All living systems, including you and all your realtionships, are captured in this constant state of becoming, this process called ‘change’.
In my recent readings I picked up on something which really inspired me. The author said that one of the keys to successful living is to desire what you have! What a profound truth. How many of us will enter a peaceful place of rest when we can get to that place where we (once again) desire what we have.
My eye caught a post in some blog that debated how objective, objectivity really is. My understanding of objective and subjective is slightly off-beat compared to most in the scientific world.
When you hold a ‘pure scientific’ paradigm, especially in ‘subjective sciences’ like psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. you believe that you can do your science objectively. Now that I don’t believe.
It is totally impossible to be ‘objective’, since the moment you start to observe anything, you are involved. Your paradigm is involved. All the knowledge your paradigm holds get involved in your observations and eventual interpretations. You might think your paradigm is more ‘objective’, but that is not possible, because you will eventually use YOUR (subjective) paradigm to interpret what YOU are observing. YOUR observations and YOUR interpretations will become clear, not necessarily what you observe.
Let me tell you a story that might encourage you to understand that your paradigm determines what you see, irrespective of what you look at.
Two (separate) American shoe manufacturing companies send their top marketing specialists to investigate the market for shoes in Africa. After two weeks both of them reported back to their respective head offices.
Albert Einstein once said, “You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”
A problem is simply an expression of my paradigm’s definition of a specific scenario. Experiencing problems is universal – we all run into them. A problem is thus real, but only to the one that defines is. How does one move beyond a problem?
You shift the paradigm and employ a different way of thinking, because you cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused it.
I recently had an awakening about my paradigm (mind-set) of why I find it difficult to hear certain people and why it is so easy to hear others.
Last week I negotiated my future with a good friend of mine. Now, I remarked to him that I find our styles and ways incompatible. Before I continue, let me remind you that I find it very difficult to think in terms of right and wrong. This said, neither my friend nor am I right or wrong.
We live in a world of change. It is everywhere and here to stay. The older our planet gets, the more we understand our lives are soaked with change.
Change like God, is a constant. A constant never changes; it is established and stays the same forever.
God will always be true to who he is. He is God and that is who he will be, forever. His character and identity is not influenced by anything in the universe. He will never become someone else and no one can stop him from being God.
This same principle applies to change. As said, change is also a constant. What will not change is that everything will change. Although we are unsure of many things, we can be sure that everything will change. We might not know exactly what the future holds, but we know it holds change. It is pregnant with change and every now and then gives birth to the life in its womb. We cannot escape the truth that everything in and around us is changing – constantly!
