“What one actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him/her. What he/she needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him/her.”                                               Victor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor.

Frankl reminds us that a call for change is a call to action that may truly bring greater fulfillment and happiness to our lives, if we only accept the challenge. On the contrary, when we take no action, we make a choice to accept the status quo as is!  Frankl suggests that the tension resulting from a call to action  – change – is a gift that beckons us toward personal fulfillment. This type of tension is a eustress or a state of anxiety that leads us toward positive feelings or a sense of fulfillment and success. Eustress is the opposite of distress and is that tension that offers opportunity for positive change.

This week, we consider the tension state of change as a condition of eustress rather than distress. Has eustress entered your life, beckoning change in a positive direction? What were those glowing and rewarding outcomes? What were your experiences as you journeyed that path that led to your own personal pot of gold? Or perhaps it was only a “gold nugget” but the outcome was definitely worth the state of tension that preceded it.

Many thanks for Spinning a Good Yarn at the cozy corner this week – can’t wait until we meet again on November 13!

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