I cut my friend's hair this morning & not just an inch or two, but more like eight or nine inches. This was a big deal for my friend & yet she embraced change & agreed to let me chop off a whole bunch of her hair.
As I was cutting her hair & listening to her talk about the attachment to her hair I thought about how hard change is for all of us. But, really I thought how wise it is to embrace change & go into your fears. Whatever feelings or ideas she had about her long hair she confronted by choosing to let go of them & embrace something new.
After I left she posted a picture of herself & she was literally glowing. I had never seen her so happy, radiant & full of joy. Now, I know it's not just the haircut I gave her, but it was something deeper than that. In letting go of her hair, and what that personally meant to her, she was able to let go of some old way she saw herself. She now can come into herself more fully & reveal that & share that with the world. I don't think it's my haircut that made the dramatic change, but more that she bravely chose to confront her fears about cutting her hair.
So, my lesson of the day is to embrace change rather than to wait passively for change to enact itself on us.
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