Joan Borysenko's article entitled "Saying Yes to Change: The Anatomy of Spiritual Transformation" has been reprinted on Unity.org after having originally appeared in The Daily Word. She deals with change as being a fundamental constant in human life. The article addresses how accepting the reality of change and altering one's attitude toward the ever-evolving process of life's events is an essential part of spiritual growth. Borysenko also, in typical Unity fashion, produces a kind of practical methodology by which one may guage the process of transformation in this sea of life's changes.
Let me briefly outline her 3-step structure with some brief commentary:
1) Separation -- When the journey of transformation commences, a rift occurs between the present and the past, what is and what was, an experienced distance between an individual and who they felt they were. This is a result of a resistance to the change that is occurring in life -- fear is often the feeling that results.
2) Dwelling at the Threshold -- This is the situation of existing in between "no longer and not yet." It's the circumstance of being in a kind of limbo, standing at the doorway of future potential but not yet realized. The challenge is that, in order to walk through the threshold of personal transformation, one must be willing to let go of past beliefs and attitudes preventing the progression. And this may take time.
3) The Return -- This is the breakthrough point where one is able to totally let go of the past and problem beliefs and is reborn into a new outlook on life, a fresh and revitalized way of living in the world.
This is a wonderfully insightful, yet rather brief, look at the process of change and transformation from a Unity spiritual perspective.
Read Borysenko's essay at Unity.org.
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