Change Practice: Nichole Christian

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Change Practice.

I’m Nichole Christian, Co-Director of the We exChange project.

You know the older I get, the funnier it is to me  how easily we’re led to believe you need wealth or power to make real change. Nope. it’s really about an individual willingness to be uncomfortable...to straight up resist the rote aspects of daily living. Take for example this very exhibit.  Did you naturally, reflexively start at the beginning? Why? Did you look for a recognizable name? You know it’s habit to look for the assigned meaning before searching for your own instincts. I do it too. But no set of days have to be lived the same no matter how alluring it may seem to keep it easy. That’s for sheep. Forget the known way. Forget that beloved bite. That thing you just feel good everytime you eat it. Yeah, forget that.

Find one or maybe two things right here in this room that speak deeply to you but not for normal reason or the normal love. Linger on it...longer than you normally might. See what opens when you open to ideas that habit coaxes us into dismissing. Discomfort really can be a doorway to daily discovery if we’re willing.