Changes in life a inevitable, the start of life to the continual passage to death, life is a cycle and we are on the path for a limited time.

Today I was out for my morning walk and over and over I saw the same thing. Little bits a death and the clean up from ants. Insects that had perished and others that will take that loss and create life with it.

It got me thinking about life, the cycles, the inevitability of death and birth, and the way we look at everything around us. To one it may be sad, the inevitable death the loss but, from that springs life and something else beautiful in its own right.

As I walked and thought about this I thought more about how it relates to people, our lives, our souls, and how we remake ourselves.

For us to grow and change we must lose a part of the old self, it in a sense that part of the old self must die. We must cut off the old person inside, and let that persona or habit go, it must be removed to make way for the new and the better.

By accepting this cycle of death and life we can begin to see how change happens and accept the realities of it. For true change to happen within a person an old part of the person must die and be replaced.

Losses in our lives create pain, because of this we do our best to avoid the loss, and this avoidance is what keeps us from being able to create change. We do everything within our power subconsciously to keep the loss from happening, and most of the time we do not even know we are stopping ourselves from the necessary change.

When we finally accept loss as a necessary part of life we can finally grow, really grow, to achieve our highest potential. Acceptance is the key to allowing you to move past the things that keep you from change

As we choose to lose our old persona we can then start to adopt a new persona, a new way of being. This is the internal birth, or in a sense the rebirth. We can form new habits and ways of being that are more productive, help us achieve all we desire and ultimately allow us become better people and live life as our true selves.

Stop, look around, think about. Everything cycles, from life to death to life, to make way for the new. Death and life must be together, as one cannot exist without the other.

Accept both the death of the old and the birth of the new, see it, embrace it, and realize that without the acceptance of this fact that change cannot happen.