Hmmm... what stops the rate of change in one's life?

Closed~mindedness
Hangups
Concealment, hiding, deception
Disappointments
Superiority
Fear
The Unknown
Selfishness
Blame
Rationale {ill~logic, need to moralize actions}
Assumptions
Pride
Inability to shift {perspective}
Avoidance
Expectations
Rejection

Pretty much anything that one allows them~self to believe that here is nothing new, or more to be experienced... that one knows it all, or at least well enough to stop in personal growth. To stay at static stasis, unable to move due to set standards. Failure or inability to look closer. The terms I listed are what i see as gifts, tools... they can keep us from growth if we seek only pleasure and ignore 'pain' rather than attend to healing it; listening to what our 'negate~ivity' tells us about ourselves. Unfortunately, the stigma of unpleasantness is enough for many to victimize others {blame, expectation, divisiveness} rather than see 'This ____, is my experience alone... what do I want to do with it?'.

Last year it was weak men and their failings in respect to me that was the hard lesson... this year's theme seems to be keeping resentment to parents who aren't/weren't 'enough'.
2 things I've experienced much of in my life, and should not need to go through again, were i to take the assumption that it is all about me. What can I do for those whom bring their darkness, travails, confusion into my life but share what 'eye' have learned long since hence, actions over words?
Healing happens when you let go of the wound... it will mend itself, and everything with it!

It took me a minute to 'get' what you've proposed here, i'm unfamiliar with 'rate of change', let alone how to gauge such and am vaguely aware of cycles that seem to indicate rate of change in my life, movement past the point of previous incarnations, lifelines within life~time. As surely as the high tide is followed by the low, honesty with the Self leads to back to enrichment and blossoming, as you put it.

I think it all comes down to fear. But what does fear come down to?

It all depends on how willing you are to change. Your will is only the start because there are things that we have had all our lives that will have to be let go of. For instance some things you will have to let go of are your belief system, self-centeredness, the thoughts inside your head that tell you who you think you are and ther desire to control the outcome. I like to think of life as a school and we have lessons to learn along the way. If you feel stuck or the same things keep happening to you there is a lesson in there you must learn to move on to the next lesson. Rate of change is relative to how you relate to life and how much you let go of what you know. Fear is based on control and expectations. We have to take full responibility for our life, stop blaming others, be open, spontanious, childlike in attitude. There is only the present moment. That is all there is.

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The thought occurred between the above Blog Post and this writing that "Rate of Change" (ROC), can be viewed in relation to;

## How much of past-future projections, are carried around that creates our present Ego Identity?

1) If none of Past-Future is carried as Identity then we live FULLY IN THE PRESENCE OF NOW-MOMENT-AWARENESS . . . if this is so then all of Life experience IS a constant rate of change and simultaneously sitting where NO change happens as an experience of Life from the aspect of Non-Duality experience . . . SO, 100% rate of change is available (or can be Allowed in that experience) . . .

2) Given that Past is only Mind-Memory of the experience of our Life Lived (and even then is open to change relative to the position of our Awareness to past in the re-telling of past experience (s)), . . . IF/When Ego Identity is based on this past then ROC is slowed by the amount of attachment to the story that is projected upon our present view of Ego self by thought. So the amount of thought locked up in emotional states of attachment decrease our ROC.

Hav2 come back2this . . . must depart .