The fear to change

In my long experience of helping people with personal growth, again and again I have found that the biggest impediment to allowing improvement in their lives is the fear of changing. People are afraid to become 'someone else'--someone unknown to them, and this is very unsettling for most because they fear that the result of change will be finding themselves alone, without company and/or community. People forget that there's no vacuum in nature. When we change, new friends and a new community always emerges which understands and speaks our new language. When we are bold, we set an example to our friends and community. Those that like our example stay in step with us, and new friends and community appear around us -- we are never alone. Rick Nichols sent the following poem from Starhawk to his 'community' of which I'm a part, and very grateful to be so. Please read on:

COMMUNITY:

Somewhere, there are people
to whom we can speak with passion
without having the words
catch in our throats.

Somewhere a circle of hands
will open to receive us,
eyes will light up as we enter,
voices will celebrate with us
whenever we come into our own power.

Community means strength
that joins our strength
to do the work
that needs to be done.

Arms to hold us when we falter.
A circle of healing.
A circle of friends.
Someplace where we can be free.

~ Starhawk


B-R-E-A-T-H-E

Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com

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