LTU: Moving forward

[Shannon]

Growth is change, Mat.  A tree grows from an acorn into a mighty oak, and changes during that process, all the while being an oak tree.

I guess I'm still afraid of change in general. Change always makes me think of loss. It seems like I have a tendency to get stuck on the past and have a reluctance to embrace the future. That's the only explanation for why I even wrote a post about comparing change vs growth. The word alone seems to invite unwanted feelings.

Is it not true that there is always a positive and a negative pole for everything?  It therefore follows that there is change and growth that leads in a positive direction, change and growth that leads in a negative direction, and change and growth that leads to a neutral outcome.

All you have to do is choose the right outcome, and go do what it takes to achieve that.

Associating all growth and change with a negative (loss, fear, etc.) is only revealing a deeper level of why you have been stuck all this time.  It isn't true that all change and growth is going to lead to a negative.  It is also false that change leads to loss, when your belief that it does is based in fear.  Likely fear of the unknown, because you have been so bent on seeking security in familiarity to keep yourself "safe" all this time.  There is security in change as well, when that change is positive.  Just choose a positive outcome and go get it!

I know that it seems difficult now, but I assure you, this is major growth being precipitated by ever deepening peeling away of the layers by LTU5.  Keep going.