Does Change on the Outside REALLY Equal Change on the Inside?

Interesting blog. I also was stuck in that mindset for a few years, that changing my situation would change my state of mind, but now I have settled down in one place and realised that life is where and what you make it. Hope you get a white xmas in Sweden
Chrissy

Great blog Sofia-Doff! I agree with you – that by simply changing your outside situation (travel, new country etc.) doesn’t always mean you will change on the inside – we have met many a backpacker who has spent 10 years always moving – who still seem to be seeking for that internal happiness from external sources – while the real source of internal happiness comes from within you and when you finally LET YOURSELF be happy with the current situation – no matter what it is.

Send my best wishing to the new baby I am so excited to see pictures!

/ Nathan

Here's a bit of babble from me… See what you think

"The only thing that is constant is change".

I think that change can occur on many levels – large scale, small scale, external, internal. One can be 'changed' due to the experiences had whilst travelling – but that is only if one is consciouslly or subconsciouslly open to change. In this respect, hopefully the 'change' is a process of improvement – but this is not always the case (then again, you have to define what improvement is in this context – maybe a completely different topic for discussion? )

Of course, a person can live their entire lifetime within a very small area, never travelling. But are they stagnant, or 'unchanging'? Probably not. They are constantly undergoig change – albeit perhaps minor to the eyes of someone who has experienced umpteen hundred countries. I think the type of change that a 'non-traveller' goes through is simply different to the type of change experienced by a world traveller. Is one better than the other? Not at all. Judgement here isn't anyones place. I think for some, the security of one set environment is a most important need. For others, new inspiration and experiences are paramount. What is perhaps the challenge is to avoid dependance of both of these conditions.

So, I think things are always changing: whether on an obvious level or not. Also, the way in which we perceive the world is constantly changing, based upon our own development. Therefore in effect, as we are always changing, our perception is always changing, and therefore, so is the world around us.

Just my 2 cents on a Saturday afternoon in Sweden

Haleluja!

Humans renew our cells in such speed that we after 40 days are not the same person anymore, yet we think we are. Science has proven that over 70 percent of all matter is invincible for us, yet we think we can see change. It’s also a fact that our world is built on atoms and fractals, that in the end all we are is wavelengths, reflected in a universe without any colour, and that that the most stubborn conservative all his life saves up the radical energy to in the end die. So life is change and even death is – that’s what’s so exiting about being around.

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Praise the Lord!
Haleluja!