One • On Change
discussion points from The Refreshing Change podcast
Early last year (2024) I joined my friend and industry colleague Nicola Scott on season 4 of her podcast The Refreshing Change. We covered a very wide range of wellbeing themes during our conversation, many of which have evolved to sit at the heart of my philosophy for Manage Your Mind.
This was recorded before I launched MYM as a practice - at the time, it was only an idea with a fledgling podcast (How To: Manage Your Mind). It was also before I undertook any formal training in mindfulness, meditation and hypnotherapy. How time flies…
Given the depth of conversation and how the ideas informed my thinking over the resulting 12 months I’m taking the opportunity to break it down into a series of MYM Journal entries. I’ll aim to publish eight entries, each landing with you on a Saturday morning for some light weekend consideration.
Journal entry one is on change. You can listen to this section of our discussion, along with some accompanying thoughts, below. You can also listen to the full episode on Apple, Spotify or at nicolascottcoaching.com.
One • On Change
Change happens. It is constant. Our perception may be that change comes and change goes, but it is ever present.
How can it not be? Are you really the same person you were last year? How about last month? Last week? Yesterday? One moment ago? Sit with that thought a moment.
Change is energy and it is an essential force. What is just as essential is how we define our relationship to change. Do we have a ‘reactive’ relationship, in that we sub-consciously take the most obvious and immediate action in relation to what has just happened to us?
Or do we have a ‘responsive’ relationship to change, in that we are consciously aware of the context of what is happening to and around us in order to shape the change in a more intentional, productive way?
From a responsive baseline, we can begin to trust change, rather than fear it. Trust why the change is taking place, remaining attuned to the nuances of the change and what it might mean for you now and in the future.
MYM Journal discussion points from The Refreshing Change:
One • On Change
Two • On Managing Your Mind
You’re always welcome here.
JR
A great conversation that I enjoyed listening to. A key takeaway for me was the rewording of ‘do something you don’t want to do’ to ‘get out of your comfort zone’.
But change. Love a bit of it and I try and embrace it at every opportunity. One thing I try to instill in my team: To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.