The magic of transformation
March 14, 2004 | 12:00am
There is magic that goes on in each and everyone of us at every moment of our lives if we but try to see it. Magic is about transformation. It is a delight in seeing something disappear and a new thing appear. Always a sense of wonder comes with magic because precisely, nothing will remain the same. Something enchanting, mysterious and unexplained happens in this process of change. Like watching a butterfly gingerly emerge from a chrysalis. Or a formerly overweight woman suddenly glowing with health, now leaner and happier. Or even the comely woman turning absolutely gorgeous because she sparkles at having found love. Or a man who smiles and thus changes the whole course of a would-be brawl. A marriage growing deeper because of personal choices and commitments made. A healing happens because of the wish to move on. Magical transformations happen to us daily if we but look around. But the greatest transformations are those that happen within each and everyone of us – in levels of the emotional and spiritual. When it begins in these two levels, the physical manifestations will inevitably follow.
To see and experience a deeper self in the midst of this great expanse is the challenge given to us everyday. If we stop right now, this moment and breathe deeply into the person we are, we will find that we stand at a time of acute transformation, also of anxiousness – with a deep longing to change and expand some aspects of our lives. If you stop reading right now and reflect about where you are at your life, there surely will be one thing that would come at you that demands change. Do the following sound familiar or strike a sensitive chord in you? To have the will (finally) to lose those extra pounds, to live healthier, to love deeper, to touch more lives and find more meaning in life, to celebrate our own personal time and not feel guilty, to delight in new knowledge or wisdom found in a good book – and I believe there would be much more, each colored by our own personal needs and wishes.
Transformational points of awareness direct us towards bettering the quality of our lives. Transformations are never towards the negative aspect of life that constrict. Rather, the process is always towards that which expands our boundaries and offers us new vistas of experiencing life with new perceptions.
This magical point is scary. Behind us there is all that is tried, true and comfortable. Before us, the horizon so wide with possibilities, and the great challenge of what will happen to us. The great unknown: Will we fail or succeed? Will we be rejected or accepted? Sometimes, this magical point calls for blind faith – and the will to leap empty handed into the great horizon and hope that we quickly find our footing. Either we move towards change or we stay in this comfort zone we have dug ourselves into. To not move forward is to become more firmly rooted in our fears and anxieties. To not move forward will mean a lack of will and courage.
When we do not move consciously towards changes, inevitably a crisis would happen. The overweight become unhealthy and get sick and therefore will be forced by illness try to get better. The angry or bitter will inevitably hate the state they are in as they find more and more people keeping away from them, and thus will begin to grow lonely. This happening they will seek to go beyond their negative emotions to reconnect to the community, to God and to themselves. Crisis forces transformation through, albeit with great pain through time.
Unique to that magical point of transformation is the awareness of the need for change. There is consciousness present and hovering nearby. It is the state when the mind is fully conscious of a deepening of the self happening, and also an expansion, a sense of depth and span or expanse. These are the results one finds beyond the magical point of transformation. We deepen ourselves and yet experience new things. This is what makes transformation so unique yet universal – that we each face our transformations with nuances so personal to us, just as we all acknowledge that it is the very process of inner growth as human beings. No one is exempted from transformations. What is important however is how we deal with these magical points and how quickly we adapt to the new levels we move into.
Transformations use our own personal energies, from our will that allows it, to the follow-through to see the changes happen. Here we can truly say, we come into a new self, into life from the inside.
(E-mail me at jej1@easycall.com.ph)
To see and experience a deeper self in the midst of this great expanse is the challenge given to us everyday. If we stop right now, this moment and breathe deeply into the person we are, we will find that we stand at a time of acute transformation, also of anxiousness – with a deep longing to change and expand some aspects of our lives. If you stop reading right now and reflect about where you are at your life, there surely will be one thing that would come at you that demands change. Do the following sound familiar or strike a sensitive chord in you? To have the will (finally) to lose those extra pounds, to live healthier, to love deeper, to touch more lives and find more meaning in life, to celebrate our own personal time and not feel guilty, to delight in new knowledge or wisdom found in a good book – and I believe there would be much more, each colored by our own personal needs and wishes.
Transformational points of awareness direct us towards bettering the quality of our lives. Transformations are never towards the negative aspect of life that constrict. Rather, the process is always towards that which expands our boundaries and offers us new vistas of experiencing life with new perceptions.
This magical point is scary. Behind us there is all that is tried, true and comfortable. Before us, the horizon so wide with possibilities, and the great challenge of what will happen to us. The great unknown: Will we fail or succeed? Will we be rejected or accepted? Sometimes, this magical point calls for blind faith – and the will to leap empty handed into the great horizon and hope that we quickly find our footing. Either we move towards change or we stay in this comfort zone we have dug ourselves into. To not move forward is to become more firmly rooted in our fears and anxieties. To not move forward will mean a lack of will and courage.
When we do not move consciously towards changes, inevitably a crisis would happen. The overweight become unhealthy and get sick and therefore will be forced by illness try to get better. The angry or bitter will inevitably hate the state they are in as they find more and more people keeping away from them, and thus will begin to grow lonely. This happening they will seek to go beyond their negative emotions to reconnect to the community, to God and to themselves. Crisis forces transformation through, albeit with great pain through time.
Unique to that magical point of transformation is the awareness of the need for change. There is consciousness present and hovering nearby. It is the state when the mind is fully conscious of a deepening of the self happening, and also an expansion, a sense of depth and span or expanse. These are the results one finds beyond the magical point of transformation. We deepen ourselves and yet experience new things. This is what makes transformation so unique yet universal – that we each face our transformations with nuances so personal to us, just as we all acknowledge that it is the very process of inner growth as human beings. No one is exempted from transformations. What is important however is how we deal with these magical points and how quickly we adapt to the new levels we move into.
Transformations use our own personal energies, from our will that allows it, to the follow-through to see the changes happen. Here we can truly say, we come into a new self, into life from the inside.
(E-mail me at jej1@easycall.com.ph)
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