Everything in life, anything alive is in constant perpetual motion, whether good or bad. When we’re sleeping for instance, our body naturally heals itself right to the moment we wake up. We and the world around us are constantly changing, hopefully evolving forward.
What we feel are the results of these changes, some good, the majority are just average and a work in progress, so we think nothing of them.
What any change involves is a shift in our emotions as humans, and it always doesn’t feel great while in transition.
Once we set ourselves forward to reach our goals, doing so can excavate a variety of feelings, some that aren’t necessarily pleasant, which doesn’t mean you should stop.
What many will do however, once going through these negative emotions, is interpret them as signs that things are bad, which results in procrastination and defeat.
Realize this is the evolution of change and it can feel difficult. At times, experiencing bad emotions means you’re on the right path.
1.) – Difficulty To Focus
What adapting towards any major life changes does is requires effort and exertion, usually into unknown territory.
What this effects is the right side of the brain, which results in a chemical imbalance.
The left hemisphere of the brain, is primarily used to perform practical tasks. What you begin to lose is common sense knowledge such as names or phone numbers, or you might just misplace things.
What this means, is there are changes happening in your life, which are deep, drastic and meaningful.
2.) – Feelings Of Stress And Anxiety
Feeling stress can be the result of a job change, deciding to start a new business, or a new relationship.
Anything that’s new, the brain will automatically respond negatively as a safety precaution, as you’re forcing your emotions to respond somehow.
What all this means, is your brain and your senses are placed on high alert. What results is an imbalance, which can result in stress, which eventually leads to feelings of restlessness.
3.) – Becoming Irritated
If you’re currently going through change in your life, you may be wondering why you’re feeling irritated by those close to you.
The reason for this, is at times it’s those who you care about, is the reason why you’re wanting to make these changes.
They may be subconsciously discouraging you to make these new changes, because they don’t want to potentially lose you, which results in subtle resentment to surface.
4.) – Feel Scared And Alone
Once you begin to feel lost or alone during the midst of making a change, this uncertainty doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doing the wrong thing, or you’re on the wrong path.
What you’re dealing with are new sensations and unknown experiences, new emotions and eventually a new reality. What all this results in, is a lot of emotions to deal with.
You then begin to lose sense of what’s right or wrong, to the point you no longer know what you’re feeling.
5.) – The Need To Spend More “Alone” Time
What you’re suddenly wanting is to be left alone to spend some “me” time, to introspect and analyze what you’re doing.
This occurs once making life altering changes and taking action on them, so you can grow or get better.
What you’re burning is a lot of emotional energy when making these changes, which leaves very little left for human interaction.
So you might need to spend more time to recuperate, this by meditation, yoga, or writing in a journal, to remain mindful.
6.) – Questioning Your Acquaintances
Once you begin to make positive life altering changes, what you’re doing is questioning the stance of your entire life, and how you choose to live it.
What this includes, is all of your current relationships with everyone you know. You begin questioning whether they belong in your life or not. You decide if they’re positive healthy influences for you.
What your new “self” also needs is to readjust, so you can renew old friendships, or think they’re no longer sustainable.
Change is a difficult process, and moving on with your life can be difficult, but it’s also a sign you’re on the right track.
7.) – Feeling Of Loss
No change or growth can occur, without losing someone or something you cherish like a habit.
At times, the loss can be tangible such as the end of a relationship, or quitting that low paying job you’re not fond of.
Other feelings of loss are more intangible, such as finally losing that bad habit or poor behaviour you don’t like.
Although you know making change is the best for you in the long run, it often feels sad in the short-term.
8.) – Uncertainty Of The Future
Anything that’s unknown, not knowing what the future may bring, does is creates uncertainty.
What you did was take something that was familiar, a known, whether it was good or bad, and you made changes. What you did was turned it into an unknown.
You have no idea where this new change is going, where this new path will lead you. What this does is makes the immediate future become a scary place.
So if you’re feeling anxiety on what the future brings, that’s perfectly normal.
9.) – Wanting Things To Remain The Same
What familiarity does is it breeds content, which is an extremely comforting human emotion that exists.
Even if the familiarity happens to be negative such as a bad habit, it can often feel better than making a positive change. There will be times, you want things to revert back to how they were.
Once it becomes complex or uncertain, the natural response is to regress back to previous things, people and comforts.
10.) – Dreams Become More Intense
Having intense dreams that are at times negative, is the entire cumulative result of inviting new change and new emotions in your life.
What change does is injects internal and external conflict in the subconscious mind.
It’s your subconscious mind telling you it’s attempting to understand, to decipher and work out all of the changes you’ve made in your life. It often does so while you’re sleeping.
11.) – Losing Your Close Relationships
As you begin to make life altering changes, emotionally, you might begin to doubt your ability to give all your close relationships the time they deserve.
What becomes important, is remaining mindful and not making impulsive decisions during this time.
What having uncomfortable negative feelings are, is a sign you’re making progress and the right choices, even if it may not feel that way.
It’s your minds way, once you feel uncomfortable or are wanting to be left alone, is acknowledging you’re altering the course of your life.