Cope with Change in Your Life
Cope with Change In Your Life
Cope with Change in Your Life, the mere thought of making a life change can be so overwhelming that you’ll end up doing nothing or settling for less than you deserve simply because you’re so afraid of that change.
The key to change is let go of fear! One of the biggest fears for most people is the fear of the unknown.
Going out of the comfort zone is uncomfortable for many people and dreadful for others. There is even a name for the fear of change it’s called Metathesiophobia. The origin of the word Metathesiophobia comes from Greek ‘meta’ meaning change and phobos meaning fear.
Without change, things stay the same and ultimately will stagnate and die. Without change there is no adventure in life. It takes much more energy and effort to resist change than it does to accept it. It’s much easier to embrace change than to fight it.
Change can often be a trigger for feeling overwhelmed and highly sensitive people may feel very anxious, depressed and suffer low-esteem, undermining their confidence when they feel like you’re in over your head and unable to cope.
Change an important and necessary to learn to cope with change in your life. It often requires adjustment in the way you conduct your day-to-day life. Pulling you out of your comfort zone.
Or you may wish to make a change with your body image, your thought patterns, your relationships, your business, moving house, transferring to a new location, moving to another country, starting over again, change your studies, your job, your image, your diet or your inner wisdom. No matter what’s going on in your life right now, one thing is certain — it’s going to change.
Making new adjustments cause stress, even when they’re positive. Conversely, negative changes can yield positive results.
Why are we so resistant to change?
Our brains are extremely effective in tenaciously maintaining the status quo. When you are resistant to change, it can be hard to cope with change in your life.
The good news is our brain cells are continually forming new connections and restructuring our perceptions and physiology over time. This process of neuroplasticity happens thousands of times a day, giving us enormous potential to change.
To keep the neuroscience simple let’s consider our brain has three parts: the reptilian brain which is responsible for our primary drivers such as eating, sleeping and sex; the limbic system which includes our emotions, connection with others, memory and habits; the pre-frontal cortex which is responsible for higher order thinking.
The pre-frontal cortex takes more energy to function whereas the limbic system is energy efficient.
Cope with Change In Your Life
Our neurons fire together quickly and with time they become embedded as habits in our basal ganglia.
What that means is it takes more effort to think about and do something new than react out of instinct or habit.
What we do on a daily basis happens without thinking like driving a car, brushing our teeth, browsing the supermarket aisle or maybe running a meeting.
Habits, rituals and routine are formed in the basal ganglia, part of our limbic structure. It is low energy and functions without much effort, designed to allow the pre-frontal cortex to process new information and more complex decisions. Whenever we act or think in ways we have done in the past, we are reinforcing neural connections in our basal ganglia. This is why making changes is uncomfortable and painful to override old programmed habits.
We can also be living in survival mode where the brain is predispose to protect us, send out warnings and alerts that are stopping us from change.
Alerts can immediately trigger the amygdala. When your body goes into high alert triggered by the amygdala, adrenaline courses through your body, panic starts and stress. Your body is getting ready for fight or flight response.
We are constantly changing even our bodies are changing renewing, healing, growing, and replacing.
Do you may need to develop new skills to enable you adapt to change?
According to Professor Peter Drucker – “The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning news skills.
We have technology changes, environment changes, many jobs are becoming obsolete due to changes and to embrace these changes will allow you to adapt!
Don’t be afraid of change as it’s leading you to a new beginning. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but not many think about changing themselves.
If you are experiencing resistance to change here are some tips.
How to Get Better at Dealing with Change?
* Make the situation FUN laugh at it!
* Take the emotions out of situations think objectively
* Worrying about what could happen tricks the mind that it is really. Don’t project terrifying situations and visions in your mind
* Focus on your values instead of your fears
* Accept the past, and stop fighting the future
* Life is constantly moving changing embrace change it’s inevitable
* Intentionally change your brain “Self-directed Neuroplasticity”
* Willpower, focussed attention and mindful action can be used to push through resistance and rewire habitual patterns. We need to pay attention repeatedly to new actions and insights over a period of time until they become part of how we operate and see ourselves.
If you are happy and growing as an individual, remember this is your journey it’s not wrong no matter what others think.
Everything changes!
Love and Oxytocin
Penelope Jayne
Penelope Jayne Author of Cope with Change in Your Life. Penelope is the Co-Founder of Global Recharge, Speaker, Author ” Best International Seller” Book on Amazon, “Better Woman, Better World – Stand Up, Show Up, Speak Up to Create a Better World” A Health & Wellness Guru empowering people to reduce stress and fatigue, detox, emotional eating, weight issues, depression, anxiety, isolation, insomnia, lack of drive and passion, overwhelm and cynicism, to bring back balance, productivity, creativity and joy back into their personal and professional life. Trained in Integrative Nutrition IIN New York, Diet and Lifestyle Intervention Certification, Energy Healing, Neuroscience, Chakra Cleansing, certified Food Over Medicine Certified Instructor trained by Dr Pam Popper, Wellness Forum Health USA, Time Line Therapy®, Master Hypnotherapist, Master Neuro Linguistic Program Practitioner & Coach, Weight Management Certification, & Master DesScience Syd University.
