An Important Reminder about the Process of Change.

There are certain patterns I’ve watched in myself for years — reactions, beliefs, thoughts, and the feelings that arise in certain kinds of situations.

I’ve noticed tendencies of my mind, ways my mind will tend to react.

And over time, through observation, I’ve felt some shifts, some change, a greater ability to hold it all from a distance, to not get entirely sucked into it, or at least, with some things, for now, not as often.

This is part of the process of change, this kind of change.

It can be slow, incremental; it can feel like not much is happening, or at least not as quickly as we might like.

But if we’re aware, if we’re mindful, if we’re paying attention, we can notice the small changes, the slightest of shifts.

Sometimes change within us can happen immediately.

We have an insight, an understanding, and suddenly things are different; we move differently.

There was before and then there is now.

And sometimes change takes time.

It can take time.