Change is all around me.  I can feel in in my bones, in my mind, in my surroundings, in the news, in the air.  We fear change.  Yet, absence of change is death.  Absence of change is absence of creativity, of our rightful application of unbounded free will.

A dear friend of mine just told me about the 4 principles of Hindu spirituality, which I find totally on point relative to change:

1. The right person comes at the right time.  Without new people in our lives, without change of some form in our relationships, we remain stagnant.  New people bring new ideas, new words, new sensations, new feelings.  Sometimes they actually help us change our old relationships!!  Every person we don’t know, or that we have already known, becomes an opportunity to connect and a fresh agent for change.
2. What happens is the only thing that could have happened.  How wise in an Eckhart Tolle way.  No regrets, no looking back, just staying in the now and accepting “what happens”.  Remember, we build our lives and our happiness not around “what happens” but around how we feel and we respond in light of what happens.
3. Whenever it starts, it’s the right time.  I have plans, I have ideas.  Yet, it’s not the right time.  When we think and project into the future, when we live on expectation, we are accelerating our own time.  I need to stay focused on my next baby step and whenever change starts, it’s my right time.
4. When something end, it ends.  There is no change without endings.  Sometimes it’s a simultaneous new beginning.  But we cannot cling to the past, to what has been.

I don’t know what will happen with and after the election on Tuesday.   But it’s a momentous time.  Change is in the air.  And change is in me.

My dear brothers and sisters, Doctor Conde wishes you the most profound and meaningful change that will make you the best you that you can be.  And whatever happens on Tuesday, happens and it’s the right time.