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So much talk about change. Seems like change is like re arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Changing the contents rather than the context. Change re arranges the contents of the BOX while true transformation takes place outside the box and expands the box. The edge of what you don’t know you don’t know.
The Speed of Trust is a transformative influence not a intellectual one. Your credibility is based on your behavior–your walk not just your talk.
Transformation is experiential and is a change of heart and behavior not just a change in thought. Ultimately you transform your track record by behaving your way out of problems, not talking your way out. As with Susan Boyle’s dramatic example–RESULTS convert the cynics!
Change v Transformation
Transformation to Spring
When I tell people that I am in the process of Transformation they usually ask me what the secret of transformation is? There is no secret really because it is a process.
It seems like a good time to take on this subject so I looked it up in the dictionary but I don’t think I necessarily agree with what it says.
Transformation~ Change the form or condition of- (this is the short version)
The reason I don’t quite agree is that I see a huge difference between change and transformation, the dictionary makes them one in the same.
This is the way I look at it, let’s see if you agree. When you change something you can always change back. People can change and eventually drift back to the person they changed from. You can change clothes but you can always change back.
Transformation to me means a complete change. When you get transformed you cannever go back to what you were before. Take for instance a cake mix; you open the box, pour the contents into a bowl, add eggs and milk, you mix it all up and you pop it into the oven. When it comes out it is ready to eat and also it has transformed from a cake mix into a cake. You can’t change that cake back into cake mix and voila,Transformation.
A person changes in much the same way, only a human is multi-layered. Many of us change from year to year, maybe we move or change jobs. The people that are evolving and realizing that they can be all that they ever dreamed are the ones experiencing Transformation.
It is my thinking that Transformation is a kin to Metamorphosis. A Metamorphosis is a biological process of changing (usually in form after one is born). The interesting thing about Metamorphosis is that along with the process of changing physically (and mentally)there is a change in behavior and habits.
BINGO!! A change in behavior and habits. This is necessary to evolve and Transform. If you keep old habits and behaviors you will never experience full and complete Transformation. You don’t have to change everything at once, you just need to change something every day.
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Change vs. Transformation
Though it’s been a few years, I can still vividly remember sitting in the CEO’s office just days before leaving my post at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Before we jumped into the meeting agenda that sunny July morning, the CEO asked me again why I was leaving. I proudly declared, “I am leaving to guide individuals through personal transformation.” I’m sure my response included some surface comments about helping folks to navigate change, but today I understand there’s a huge difference between change and transformation; it’s the latter that creates sustainable momentum toward getting the life we want.
What I’ve come to value is that the process of change is nothing more than helping people to get closer to their goal by rearranging the content of their life, which should explain why this approach is often short-lived.
If someone decides, for example, she desires to live a healthy lifestyle — there’s a call to do more or less of something. Doing new activities and creating different rhythms feels uncomfortable and energy depleting, but she does it anyway by shaking up how, what, when and why she eats or cares for her body. When she accepts this challenge, she makes incremental shifts in the way she thinks, responds and behaves, but invariably pushes up against the internal resistance of navigating change. Sometimes she doesn’t change the content…and suffers setbacks. And, the saga of trying to solve problems or achieve her goal through the change process continues to be an uphill battle.
Personal transformation is vastly different and certainly more profound. Where change is often short-lived, transformation creates the foundation for sustainable change by expanding the context of who you really are: your strengths, passions,and natural tendencies born from love and awareness, not protection. As result, a pool of vast internal resources becomes available to you in order to achieve whatever you wish to accomplish — whether big or small. And unlike change, you can’t undo what is birthed through transformation. Undoing transformation would be akin to a newly formed butterfly ignoring the wings that now adorn her body.
So, if you want a healthier lifestyle — more happiness or greater success — you just have to plug into the full capacity of your personal power. You see, you already have your own internal system of intelligence and genius which comes from an integrated mind, body and spirit. And yet, many people have cut themselves off from all the aspects of who they are, so they live in their head and rely on willpower to change content. They are, in essence, living in a cocoon of a fractured self which cuts them off from their full capacity.
However, when you are congruent and whole, your natural systems innately know how to communicate when you’re hungry or full, whether food is depleting or giving you energy, or if your body is asking for more self-care. Your internal wisdom already knows what makes you happy, puts you in flow and maintains internal equilibrium. This wellspring of knowledge and resources come from the process of transformation, not change.
I understand that not everyone has the courage to embrace a journey of transformation. People in our society prefers falling into the trap of changing content instead of looking at how their problems are trying to tell them something about who they really are.
In fact, I am strong believer that if change is conquering you — this obstacle is an invitation to know more about who you really are…because your problems are created by who you are not. You see, most of your unproductive habits, behavioral diversions and disempowering strategies are born from a place of protection. You are more than that. So, real transformation is about getting real with yourself; why am I eating instead of feeling emotions, what am I protecting myself from or avoiding by keeping the weight on, why is work more important that my body, health or peace of mind?
When you take a journey of transformation, you honor those parts that no longer serve you…and ask them to leave. You allow those aspects to die, and in return, create a clearing. In that clearing emerges a deeper sense of self-understanding, more productive thoughts and deeds and a sense that you must honor what’s most important to your authentic self. From this place of expanded context of who you are and what you are capable of in this lifetime, you start to support a shift in lifestyle from within. And, change has no choice but to come along for the ride.
What I’ve come to value is that the process of change is nothing more than helping people to get closer to their goal by rearranging the content of their life, which should explain why this approach is often short-lived.
If someone decides, for example, she desires to live a healthy lifestyle — there’s a call to do more or less of something. Doing new activities and creating different rhythms feels uncomfortable and energy depleting, but she does it anyway by shaking up how, what, when and why she eats or cares for her body. When she accepts this challenge, she makes incremental shifts in the way she thinks, responds and behaves, but invariably pushes up against the internal resistance of navigating change. Sometimes she doesn’t change the content…and suffers setbacks. And, the saga of trying to solve problems or achieve her goal through the change process continues to be an uphill battle.
Personal transformation is vastly different and certainly more profound. Where change is often short-lived, transformation creates the foundation for sustainable change by expanding the context of who you really are: your strengths, passions,and natural tendencies born from love and awareness, not protection. As result, a pool of vast internal resources becomes available to you in order to achieve whatever you wish to accomplish — whether big or small. And unlike change, you can’t undo what is birthed through transformation. Undoing transformation would be akin to a newly formed butterfly ignoring the wings that now adorn her body.
So, if you want a healthier lifestyle — more happiness or greater success — you just have to plug into the full capacity of your personal power. You see, you already have your own internal system of intelligence and genius which comes from an integrated mind, body and spirit. And yet, many people have cut themselves off from all the aspects of who they are, so they live in their head and rely on willpower to change content. They are, in essence, living in a cocoon of a fractured self which cuts them off from their full capacity.
However, when you are congruent and whole, your natural systems innately know how to communicate when you’re hungry or full, whether food is depleting or giving you energy, or if your body is asking for more self-care. Your internal wisdom already knows what makes you happy, puts you in flow and maintains internal equilibrium. This wellspring of knowledge and resources come from the process of transformation, not change.
I understand that not everyone has the courage to embrace a journey of transformation. People in our society prefers falling into the trap of changing content instead of looking at how their problems are trying to tell them something about who they really are.
In fact, I am strong believer that if change is conquering you — this obstacle is an invitation to know more about who you really are…because your problems are created by who you are not. You see, most of your unproductive habits, behavioral diversions and disempowering strategies are born from a place of protection. You are more than that. So, real transformation is about getting real with yourself; why am I eating instead of feeling emotions, what am I protecting myself from or avoiding by keeping the weight on, why is work more important that my body, health or peace of mind?
When you take a journey of transformation, you honor those parts that no longer serve you…and ask them to leave. You allow those aspects to die, and in return, create a clearing. In that clearing emerges a deeper sense of self-understanding, more productive thoughts and deeds and a sense that you must honor what’s most important to your authentic self. From this place of expanded context of who you are and what you are capable of in this lifetime, you start to support a shift in lifestyle from within. And, change has no choice but to come along for the ride.
http://awakeningworks.blogspot.com/2011/06/change-vs-transformation.html