New Beginnings

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Author: Biljana

New beginnings as we understand this to be, can be alike a fresh start, a new opportunity or another chance. The great majority of people absolutely love the idea and dream about it but don't always think it will come around for them and when it does, they may not notice it or are simply afraid to enter the new because a new beginning often requires change.

Change can be frightening and we have a natural tendency to cling to old routines, old ways of thinking and doing. Change can teach us to be brave, courageous and trusting. We can learn to surrender, release and let go of our old ways in order to embrace the new into our lives and allow to be stretched by the fresh circumstances.

We can learn about ourselves through new experiences, change or new beginnings. We can become more open to new approaches to life, perhaps teach ourselves a new way of looking at situations or opportunities. Sometimes we have simply given ourselves a new beginning without noticing we have. We may have had a change of heart, a positive train of thought or reached the end of our tether in a given situation whereby we have mysteriously opened a new door of opportunity for ourselves.

The way we spend our time, our days, months and years is a result of who and what we are. It is a result of how we feel and approach life. When things become unsatisfying, mundane or cause a great unhappiness to us, it is time to take a deeper look within and consider how we can make changes to improve our situation. Most of us don't notice that we in fact create our reality. We are truly responsible for the way we feel and how we choose to experience each day. Tomorrow will purely depend on how you think or feel today.

If we choose to look change in the face with anxiety then we may never take the necessary step to move forward. If we consider change to be a positive opportunity in our lives, we can effortlessly release the negative worries about making a change, therefore simply embrace the new beginning. How we feel about new beginnings is how we choose to face change for ourselves.

A new beginning is having a clean fresh slate, a new cycle of opportunity! Change is associated with cycles and is a natural process in our lives. Our physical changes happen naturally as we mature and although some of us may not appreciate those initially, we certainly grow to accept them, we come to realise, life is a natural part of the process of becoming... a necessary combination of states we need to proceed through.

Time may be responsible for some changes and we are responsible for others. Time does not fear change, new beginnings or growth and simply brings those about. We need to embrace our own courage and change them ourselves, for ourselves and how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to embrace change, improvement or new beginnings in their life!

"A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning" - axiom

The essence of being afraid to change, to bring about wondrous new beginnings or move forward fearlessly is when we believe, “things remain the same.” Things are in fact continuously changing, part of a natural process under our very eyes from moment to moment, day to day, year to year. Progress implacably requires change and we can find ourselves only in the present moment, today, now. So beautiful is a new beginning... but much more rewarding is the ending.