Pandemics, wildfires, droughts, floods, anxiety about the future, changes on every level it seems. Where does it end? All these things that are so out of our control yet we spend so much time and energy thinking, worrying, resisting and making ourselves unhappy in the process. We may not be in control of what happens out there, what others do or think or say but we do have a say about how we’re going to meet it.
I admit, there are times when I look out at the world and feel concern about where it’s all heading. Then I remember that resisting what is doesn’t make a bit of difference, it just saps me not only of energy but of the will to do anything about it. That’s when I stop and breathe and shift my focus inward, away from my thoughts to what’s going on in my body. That seemingly insignificant action seems to break the spell so that I can feel more fully then bring soothing, reassuring thoughts into the fear or sadness or whatever I am feeling in the moment so that I am not in the thrall of it.
Just breathe, just be here, now, present, honouring, seeing beyond the stories I tell myself that simply have not proved to be helpful for the most part. It’s how I learned to cope; think my way through. If I can figure this out then maybe I can control it but the problem with that is no matter how much I worry or try to figure some of these things out, the further away I get from Essence, from Love, from the only thing that actually works which isn’t control but rather surrender. A deep letting go and relaxing into Being where I can see more clearly and act more effectively because it is in the stillness of surrender that I access that field in Divine Ideas where infinite possibilities resides.
After over 60 years on this planet I have finally come to realize right down to my little cotton socks that for every problem, every challenge, every obstacle, there is an answer, an idea just waiting to be taken hold of and brought to life. That doesn’t happen when I’m just recycling old beliefs and rehashing the problem; it comes to light when I let go of trying to fix things by staring at what isn’t working or thinking about the situation the way I’ve always thought. I need to open in surrender to a whole other level of consciousness. As Einstein so aptly put it, “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”
We all have the Divine Potential to see the world anew if we’re willing to let go. I liken it to going for a hot air balloon ride. Once you’re in the basket, you need to untie the lines and drop the weights so that the hot air that is filling the balloon can lift you off the ground.
Namaste,
