Personal and/or organizational change often is met by stiff resistance. Such resistance is however thought of something that is desirable to those who are resisting it.

As such the instigators of the change itself then find themselves having to use considerable effort and/or ingenuity to affect others to make the required change. This strategy not only takes tremendous energy but is also, in my view, misguided from the start.

The greatest impediment to any change is the "fear of change" itself. Now because many "think" that this is a normal human emotion that needs to be "overcome" in a manner of speaking, then this is the tack that many change management consultants find themselves taking. That is they put energy into trying to "overcome" it.

I would like to suggest another way. Why not simply eradicate it, i.e. the fear of change, once and for all?

Is this even possible? Well it is if you address what I refer to as the "anchoring beliefs" that keep it, the fear of change, anchored in one's mind and body.

Such anchoring beliefs include such things as:

1. If I change I will encounter new situations I am not prepared for that will make feel uncomfortable, anxious, or inadequate.

2. If I change then I will be allowing myself to become exploited.

3. The fear of change helps protect my rights as an individual.

4. Change is only uncomfortable.

5. Change means I'm being passive.

6. The unknown is fraught with uncertainty and where I am now is certain and more comfortable.

7. Change requires effort and is inherently painful.

8. And so on.

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