# Change > Change is the unavoidable constant of physical experience and the work is to accept it give it a positive reason for having occurred and meet it gracefully rather than with resistance or bracing - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/change # Change *A figure steps from a stable shore onto a gently moving curved crossing beside unused rigid stone slabs* In these transcripts Bashar treats change as the unavoidable constant of physical experience — not a problem to be solved but the medium in which incarnation happens. The teaching is concerned with how a person meets change: whether they resist it, brace against it, or dive into it gracefully, and whether they give it a meaning that lets them use it constructively. The sources frame the inner stance toward change as more decisive than the form the change itself takes. > — Breaking The Seals (qa-6), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/breaking-the-seals) > — Diving Into The Unknown (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/diving-into-the-unknown) ## Change is constant; the meaning is given In Breaking The Seals Bashar tells a listener going through a difficult transition that "change is the only constant," and the work is not to stop the change but to accept it, go with it, and — crucially — give it a positive reason for having occurred. The claim is not that every change is secretly pleasant; it is that without a constructive meaning you cannot perceive how the change could be used in a constructive way, because you cannot experience a reality you are not the vibration of. He treats the transition as part of the path rather than an interruption in the path, and warns that defining the change as ultimately negative is what produces the constrictions (in that exchange, migraine and back pain) that the listener is feeling. > — Breaking The Seals (qa-6), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/breaking-the-seals) ## Meeting the unknown like a dive Diving Into The Unknown extends this with the image of a diver on a board. Change is presented as a dive into the void — into the nothing — that you take freely, willingly, and most importantly, gracefully. Resistance in the dive makes you hit the water hard; grace lets you enter it effortlessly. The listener has placed themselves on the edge of the board by choice; having invited the unknown in, they will dive regardless, so the only real question is whether they meet it with resistance or with grace. He closes the monologue with the direct invitation to embrace the unknown and embrace change, because within it you will find the rest of yourself. > — Diving Into The Unknown (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/diving-into-the-unknown) > — Diving Into The Unknown (text), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/diving-into-the-unknown) *A flexible reed screen curves with a breeze while a matching rigid mineral screen remains tightly fixed* ## The change itself is not experienced The same session adds a structural point about where change happens. Bashar says the change itself takes place in timelessness — in the nothing — and therefore is not directly experienced. What you experience is the result: how you have changed, manifesting in the world of space and time. The implication is that looking for the moment of change is a category mistake; you only meet it afterward, by who you have become on the other side. This is offered as a reason to let yourself go into the timelessness that allows flexible self-redefinition rather than trying to witness or control the shift as it occurs. > — Diving Into The Unknown (qa-5), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/diving-into-the-unknown) ## Fear can become information Because the change itself is unknowable in advance, fear often arises at the edge of the dive. Diving Into The Unknown reframes this: stay centered within joy rather than fear, and fear can be experienced not as an enemy but as information, as self-awareness, as one of the valued events of your life. This is consistent with the Breaking The Seals instruction to watch your definitions during a transition — the issue is not the change itself but the meaning imposed on it, which determines what you are then able to perceive and use. > — Diving Into The Unknown (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/diving-into-the-unknown) > — Breaking The Seals (qa-6), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/breaking-the-seals) *An unmarked threshold divides a mossy path from a newly wet path where fresh footprints begin* ## Practical implications Within the framework these sources offer, a learner facing a change can first accept that the change is happening rather than treating it as an interruption; then ask what constructive meaning they can genuinely give it, without pretending the event itself is pleasant or pretending it did not occur; then watch for the definitions they are placing on the change, since a negative definition can itself produce the felt constriction they may be blaming on the change. The teaching does not require endurance of unsafe conditions, and the inner-stance work it describes is not a substitute for medical, mental-health, legal, or financial support when a change involves risk of that kind. > — Breaking The Seals (qa-6), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/breaking-the-seals) > — Diving Into The Unknown (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/diving-into-the-unknown) ## Representative passages Things will change. Change is the only constant. Let it change. Accept the change. Go with the change. Find out what the change is by giving it a positive reason for having occurred so that by having given it a positive meaning you will be capable of extracting a positive understanding from it.— Bashar, You are going through a transition with this, treat it as part of the path, not an interruption in the path. Watch your definitions now more than ever.— Bashar, The idea is to step into the void, to step into the nothing, freely, willingly, and most importantly, gracefully. Resistance in the dive will only allow you to hit the water hard. Grace in the dive will allow you to hit the water effortlessly.— Bashar, Change takes place within the nothing. You do not experience the shift itself. You only experience what comes after the shift. You only experience the result of the change.— Bashar, Embrace the unknown. Embrace change. Within it, you will find the rest of yourself.— Bashar, ## Related - [Acceptance](https://sassani.app/topic/acceptance) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) - [Fear](https://sassani.app/topic/fear) - [Parallel Realities](https://sassani.app/topic/parallel-realities) - [Present Moment](https://sassani.app/topic/present-moment) - [Surrender & Letting Go](https://sassani.app/topic/surrender) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/change. The HTML page is the source of truth.