{"id":149,"date":"2020-11-16T01:01:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/counsellingonthecoast.com.au\/2020\/11\/16\/reasons-why-life-adjustments-and-changes-are-hard\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T23:11:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:11:20","slug":"reasons-why-life-adjustments-and-changes-are-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/counsellingonthecoast.com.au\/reasons-why-life-adjustments-and-changes-are-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons why life adjustments and changes are hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Life is not a palette of black and white. There is a lot of grey area. In fact, life is more like a rainbow: there are even colors that you can\u2019t ever see. If you are struggling with changing yourself, even if you know what you\u2019re doing wrong, it is okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\nare some reasons why change and coping with change is hard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike\nwhat we have been taught as children, our brains are not entirely plastic. If\nit were, we would easily be mind-washed and we would never be able to progress\ncollectively as humanity. As we grow older, our ability to adapt to things decreases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This can also change depending on how you are\nraised, and your culture. Some people are more prone to certain types of change\nas compared to others. In simpler words, as we grow older, the plasticity of\nour brain exponentially decreases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coping with\nchange when you\u2019re older is considerably more difficult, which is why many\npeople visit a stress management counsellor to get their life under control. If\nwe could do it on our own, there would not be a need for a professional to help\nus cope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like we\nmentioned earlier, some things are easier to change than the others. For\nexample, changing your diet is easy. Changing the school, you go to is easy but\nadapting to your new school is difficult \u2013 especially if you have memories and\nemotions attached to the previous one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your\ninnate habits such as anxiety and being anxious when meeting someone new is not\nsomething that you can change overnight. It\u2019s not like there is a kill-switch\nthat will toggle your anxiety on and off whenever you will it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humans\nare wired to be suspicious of anything that happens in our vicinity. We\nespecially find it hard to adapt to a new environment because of how our bodies\nhave adapted. Because in the olden times, humans had to constantly come from\none location to another, this change in environment would often require a high\nlevel of alertness and active maintenance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are having problems, we recommend choosing a stress management counsellor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have any further queries about life adjustments, coping with change and why changes are so hard, please reach our to Sarah Bergman at Counselling on the Coast today. We will try our best to help you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Life is not a palette of black and white. There is a lot of grey area. In fact, life is more like a rainbow: there are even colors that you can\u2019t ever see. If you are struggling with changing yourself, even if you know what you\u2019re doing wrong, it is okay. What makes it hard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n