Allowing
Added 2020-01-31 05:23:28 +0000 UTCLately, I have been doing a lot of work around the concept of Allowing.
We are a culture that is heavily imbued with values that float on the undercurrent of control. We try to control outcome at every turn, and leave very little room for the sacred unfolding that happens when we simply allow space for growth and development, as they naturally progress. We become so fearful that the rose bud will not blossom that we peel back the unready petals, and often end up destroying the delicate beauty—or at best, we miss the absolute magic that happens when we simply allow the rose to dance open in its own timing.
I notice it in myself all the time. I fall in love with the potential of relationships, of my career, and find myself tempted to grasp and cling to that future vision, becoming rigid and anxious. And lately, as those feelings arise, I have been actively letting them go, and surrendering with a soft and open heart to the knowing that everything unfurls as it is meant to. I will not allow old fear-full programming to drive me to isolate, numb, or give up in the face of this truth, but to break me open into deep trust. The deepest trust I have ever cultivated.
I will keep showing up with a full, open heart, in exquisite presence. I will keep putting sincere effort and care into the people and pursuits that are important to me... and I will also allow them to ebb, flow, breathe, expand, contract, be in sacred flux. ✨
Real time witnessing the absolute magic and freedom and lightness of being that happens when I practice this.
