A human being is naturally conservative by nature. This has a reason. Our brain has a very high processing capacity but this is very energy consuming. If we want to be active during a large part of the day our brains need to reduce the amount of impulses to a minimum. We tend to develop a comfort zone of standard behavior through daily routines. This helps us dose the usage of our brain energy, avoiding us to get upset due to too many brain triggers. This also allows us to react instantly when our attention indeed is needed, for instance when in abrupt danger. 

We mostly tend to develop our lives therefore within our established comfort. A daily pattern that we tend to repeat. We may introduce minimal changes, but try to avoid big ones that upset this comfort. The consequence of such an attitude is that whenever a larger change announces itself, planned or unplanned, it has the tendency of upsetting us. Our comfort is going to be disturbed, which is already a reason to feel uncomfortable. Another issue about a transition is that often the outcome of the change is still fairly unknown to us. This tends to fill us with insecurity. It can be a reason to avoid the change at all time.

Also this is a natural attitude. If we dive too fast into a change we may find ourselves in unwanted situations. Our natural attitude to avoid change tends to build up the tension to such a level that change cannot be avoided. So when the transition announces itself, we at least get to the inner understanding that we need to attend it for the benefit of the change itself. This often happens when, for some reason, the old comfort is not sustainable anymore. We then NEED to go for a transition. Ideally we plan our transitions so that we can go through them with a degree of confidence and reassurance. However, more often then we like, the need imposes itself with a degree of urgency.

Our comfort zone can also be disturbed by many sudden problems or challenges. We then need to react instantly or fast, often in an unplanned way. If we don´t then the consequences may be more problematic than when we act. Mostly we act because we wish to get back into our old comfort, or occasionally develop a new one that is better than what we had before. 

So with our naturally self imposed conservative nature we always have difficulties with transitions, with change in general. We even find it hard to accept that "change is the only constant". Yet, if we accept this we can mentally train ourselves to deal with transitions in a positive and confident way. We may make it a "way of life", or even a path for societal transitions that affect large amounts of people in a positive way. 

In this tutorial we go through the transition steps. We also introduce some examples that further explain the complexity and also the beauty of it all. At the end we may even wish each other "a happy and fruitful transition"! 

In the drawing below we see the process of a transition, at least one which is done from an evolutionary point of view, or one where ethics tends to display new realities. Between each of the field there are emotions, such as fear, burst of awareness, sense of community, realization and even love. It shows that "harmony" is our constant desire yet its realization is a constant challange between controls, chaos and new boost of awareness.