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Transitions, we forget them all the time. In our quick-paced time the instant lie rules. Instant meaning: this moment. Yes, we want it now. Whatever we want, it is just . . a focussed thought and a bag of money away. Today I am here, the next day I am somewhere else. All just a plane ride of a few hours away. Or so we think. If one may call this ‘thinking’.

Now, feeling would give us a glimpse of truth. Although we are supposedly living in times of big changes (haven’t there always been changes?), did we feel the change after the plane landed in a city we hardly know anything about? And do we perceive the cultural changes here? Usually we parade around as if the world needed to adjust to us whereever we appear. That may be a difficult way to discover any change.

We lost the very important feeling of transitions.

Transitions occur all the time. When we are sick we need a time to heal, when we fall in love we need a time to integrate that feeling into our daily life, when we learn something new we need some time to practice it, when we unlearn something ditto. And before you want to lose weight you had to gain it! And it took some time.

Stop smoking? Yes, you can try to stop just so. But your body needs a long time to get the different message. So does your psyche. Any addiction is an example why transitions are so important: to change something profound and touching in your life, body, mind, soul and spirit have to accept and support that new intention. Maybe it will be tested before acceptance.

If you fall in love with another person it takes some time to give up control and give in to love.

Should insensitivity be part of our daily driven hysteria? Have we become unable to pay attention to the becoming and letting go of something in our chase for peak distraction, complemented only by exhaustion?

Transition may actually be the wrong expression. In fact, something is unfolding and/or vanishing inside us all the time. It may not appear on our nervous radar but something is happening all the time. Maybe those subtle transition processes are really interesting once we pay attention to them? They could lead us to a deeper understanding of what happens around us. Transitions are the very fabric of change.

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