I’m developing a presentation from my life experiences, as a person and a parent. Why am I doing this? Well, because I’ve felt the call for many years, and I’m just now getting enough courage to go ahead with it. I’ve a few forums to contact. In any case, I’ve decided to go ahead and do this so I can get on with my life.

So first things first, there are a few natures of life to get to make things easier. A very important one is that life is work in progress. Change is the only constant. We, humans, are animals. Something is constantly “anima”ting and creating. Therefore, things are always changing in and around us. The only time when we don’t move or change is when we’re dead. And even then, the moving and changing still goes on. Our heart is constantly beating, blood circulating, brain dreaming or converting short-term memories into long-term memories… Millions of movements happen in and out of us without our noticing.

In our modern life, we are so used to get somewhere quick. We are often rushing to get things done, getting over the process fast. What’s at the end of our process? Having a meal, eating an ice cream, all of that is the process that we enjoy. When we’re done, there’s only the full feeling in the tummy and burps. We want to quick watch a movie. It’s the process we really enjoy, not so much of the discussion afterwards. My yoga teacher always says, don’t be in a rush to get down. There’s only dirt when you get there. In Western Yoga, we ignore our bodies’ messages, our held or belaboring breath. We skip through the important stuff to get our limbs to where they “should’ be and forget that the process of getting there is where the gold lies.

The Chinese I-Ching based its entire premise on “change.” The character “I”, in the title, means change. Hence the Yin-Yang symbol. The white-and-black represents light-and-dark. It can also represent good-and-evil, happy-and-sad, empty-and-full, rich-and-poor, etc.. The white starts as a dot on one end. It grows and grows to it’s fullest. As the famous Chinese saying goes, “A thing that goes to its extreme, must become its opposite.” The black goes through the same cycle until it tuns over to white. Also, since nothing is absolute, there’s a dot of black in white and a dot of white in black.

Knowing that nothing will go on forever, or is absolute, we feel less surprised and more able to accept the changes when they come. At times, we can even expect the changes. Thus, in stead of reacting to the changes, we incorporate them as part of our life process.