For Change, You must Change

I have recently become reaquainted with Patanjali, a mystic living thousands of years ago. It was through a Wayne Dyers book, that I remembered my inner introduction to Patanjali. He came to me in meditation, but I was not ready for his teachings. Sometimes the teacher comes before the ego is ready to accept. But I always remembered him. He never left me. And now I take to heart that which was offered. To study his five aphorisms is life changing. That comes about by changing your mind. I quote Wayne Dyer; "As you face a problem, remind yourself that you created it with one mind, and you will solve it with another." This one statement is a paradigm shift in thought for me. I realized, that is how I have survived. I changed. I changed from Jane to Ellary, from scared to fearless, from sad to jovial, from concerned and involved to indifferent and evolved. People in my life have not recognized me from one moment to the next, not because Im so unremarkable, but because I change.i
Im not the same person that I was a week ago. What I have thought and what I have done created a "problem" that I could no longer thrive with and in. The mind that created that existence can no longer maintain that existence. I have moved to a new mindset and hopefully I will not get so entrenched in that existence that it becomes once again, so terribly painful to move on. Spiritual growth has always been of prime importance to me. I support that in myself and every other soul I come in contact with.