Fear of the unknown?

If the fear of the unknown prevails, there is a simple and effective recipe to use.

Often life forces us to make significant, sometimes even radical, changes. We feel catapulted on an unknown planet on which we have no point of reference.

Everything is new, and we don’t know if it will do us any good or if we might adapt and fit into new habits and situations. Yet, we somehow feel lost and want to feel safe at any cost.

Don’t resist the changes; open up to the unpredictable and find a new home inside you. When something new falls on us, it’s fundamental to create with oneself a state of “observational presence” that does not comment on events.

By observing, we will learn that only from silence and emptiness of mind can arise a new creative development of our life. Trust the process, and the landing will be soft! Schwaller de Lubicz said it once in a beautiful way: “You have to learn to listen.

We have to look in silence, without wanting to “see”, and we have to accept the Nothing (that is, everything we do not know). For what man calls Nothing is what is Reality”. The more you brake and protect yourself, the more the new frightens you, and you see dangers everywhere.

So try to look without judging: unusual things nourish new parts of you, new shoots that will make you always feel young. Cause something is for sure: Change will come anyway.

📸 Pascale Weber for Fujifilm Switzerland