Adapt and change, stagnate or get left behind. The capacity to adapt comes through our ability to deal with the mental, emotional and physical challenges.

How we manage to incorporate a new mind set and our subsequent behaviour, determines how successful our new mind-set and behaviour pattern will be. The key implications of change are necessary if we are to adapt and move on with our lives.

We adjust to change by forming new expectations that will lead us to success, under new circumstances. But we must start by addressing and working out what’s happening and learning to respond to those things. We must learn to deal with our emotions sufficiently, having tapped consciously into our emotions.

Since it is our unconscious that stores our experiences, and we tend to revert back, we won’t always think about our conscious thoughts and how we feel at any given time. We rely on the old stories that play out in our unconscious thinking, as we go about our daily lives.

But we must involve our mental, emotional and physical states, learn to absorb change beyond that if we are to continue to adapt and change.

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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