::elizabeth::
Over the last year or so I have been greatly challenged to let go of what I believe is the best way to do things over and over again. It seems that most of what I felt or thought was healthiest, safest, easiest, and wisest was only meant to be a temporary illumination for the moment at hand. When I began to realize that I don't have to cling to anything, including a belief that I research thoroughly before attaining, I began to have a real breakthrough in the amount of joy, understanding, and well being in my life.
I have felt lately, that is best to be prepared to rethink everything at a moment's notice. I don't completely understand why this is necessary right now, but I know I am not alone in recognizing this pattern on the planet. It is so helpful to let go of the need to be right. And really critical to release any rigidity in thought or beliefs. There really is no such thing is a right choice. But there is always a most loving choice, and making the most loving choices elevates us to the dreamy field.
::lisa::
It is so easy to get caught up in the rules and regulations of our lives. Sometimes for me it gets to the point where that’s all I can think about. At that point I get really stressed out, a headache, and life just seems to overwhelm me to the point of not knowing what to do next.
Lately I have been trying a new approach to how I feel in these types of moments. Once I start to feel my head ache, I stop…. everything I am doing, everything I am thinking, and just think, “what do I need right now?” Not in the next moment, not in five minutes, not tomorrow, next week, or in three weeks…just right now, in this moment. Once I can get my brain out of overdrive, I can begin to get a clearer picture of how to give myself what I need. Very often it is something as simple as a glass of water or to just sit down and stare out the window for a few seconds. I am finding the more and more I allow myself this space, the more in control of myself and my life I feel. I begin to shift perspective and understand that all of those things that are piling up on my “to do” list really can wait, and that I deserve to be first on that list at all times. If I am not in a centered space within myself I am not going to be very helpful or useful in any other area of my life.
This place…the in the moment “dreamy” place, is one that I think we need to begin to operate from more often. It is here that new possibilities and new realizations will be discovered and we will be able to fully drop the illusions that we have upheld as so important for so long. It is going to take awareness and effort to change the way I think all the time, but it is going to be an important reminder that there is not any "only way" or "final way", instead we get to choose how we see it in the long run.
I love what you both had to say. I especially liked when Elizabeth said there isn't always a right way, but there is almost always a most loving way. If we could all operate from that point of view I think the world would be a much better place.
ReplyDeleteonly just found your blog, but wow! I love this and am going to print it out and put it somewhere obvious, and keep reading and reading it again until it really sinks in - I so often get overwhelmed with all I have to do as a mumma, and forget to just be, or take time for me. Only today we got home from running errands and I realised that, because I was aware in my mind of all the things I still had to do when we got home, I'd completely rushed myself and my daughter through our weekly coffee (me) and cake (her) cafe treat, so actually, what should have been a wonderful moment together, was, for me at least, spoiled by the internal chatter and monologue listing all what there was to do. I am so angry at myself. There's no doing over, only waiting til next week, but lesson learned, I shall be making sure that I make time to enjoy it and put those to-do thoughts out of my mind.
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