Like with any change, the changing of the seasons facilitates our human journey if we are willing to learn from its wisdom. Finding ourselves in a transitional period in our life journey challenges us to reflect more on the upcoming changes in our lives. Observing the natural environment and the changes it brings while a season ends and a new one knocks at our door can help open our minds.

 Consequently, we will find the courage to embrace what might come along. Our daily familiar routines will soon be replaced with new ones. Although change may be uncomfortable, we must remember that it is necessary to thrive and grow into whatever life prepared for us in the following chapter of our story. If we are ready to embrace the change of the new routines of the new season that awaits, we will surely learn to love it more.

As the days get shorter, I long for the sunrise and feel expectant. I appreciate it even more when it shows up in its mighty glory. Observing and reflecting deeply on the changing seasons, we might open up more to change in our daily experiences and embrace them just as they are. 

The observation of the gradual time change of the sunrise allows us to question everything in our lives. If the sun failed to rise, the Earth would remain dark. Surely, we would be more appreciative when it shows its presence on the skyline. 

Seasons are our guiding forces that never stop to whisper in our ears: "Enjoy your journey now and expect to learn from the changing experiences of your life!"  Every individual has a specific way of dealing with change. If we force the change to happen earlier, we might arrive too early at our destination or find the one we are not supposed to be on.

We must accept that all the leaves change colour and fall when their time has come. While we wait patiently and observe their journey, we become more aware of what we must observe while living our own. Taking the time to process experiences and emotions helps us find the synchronicity of a new "imposed" rhythm of life. 

We are too impatient sometimes to let things flow into our lives. Where are we running? Why can't we stay still for a little while longer and let the chapters of our journey unfold as they should? 

Whenever I am in a hurry, I go out in nature. While in the middle of its heart, I stay longer than usual. I contemplate and reflect. Finding nature's wisdom and learning from it helps me re-centre. Observing nature's changing and calming journey teaches me also to trust the present season in which I am as the one that awaits. Being in nature always helps me relearn to settle and find the most needed rhythm, which undeniably always brings ease to my soul.

I love this quote by Lao Tzu: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." 

Take your time with all you need. Try not to speed things up. We only have so much in this life as we allow it to offer us. We won't experience it fully unless we allow its chapters to unfold as they should. What a shame to go through Life and not live it through its deepest essence. 

With Autumn's equinox approach, we must remind ourselves that speeding things in our journey might make us "lose" valuable lessons that we would not integrate otherwise. Autumn helps us find that calm and space we all need to transition beautifully into the new season. Autumn gives us rest.

 A restful human heart embraces the change with ease.