Letting things go, is a lived belief in the truth of Abundance.
Just Be Like This Today: “Letting Go”
This is a daily invitation to grant yourself permission to drop all your other nagging ‘Musts’ and ‘Shoulds’ about self-improvement, personal development and living a virtuous life. Just enjoy this one cup of Living Wisdom, just choose this one thing and sit with it today.
Holding on too long to the vestiges of last year’s summer is what makes a winter less bearable and it can make us miss the profound promise of spring.
You already know all of this, so let go, and be reminded.
Holding to a relationship or a time in your life that you miss, or a dream perhaps, means you don’t make room for something new to arrive. When spring arrives, the invitation is to let go of what you are so preoccupied with doing and to allow the letting go of what you were becoming while you did it.
When everything seems to die in winter, you make the mistake of forgetting that a magic and necessary renewal process is happening below the surface.
Perhaps you are still pouring all your good oil onto a fluttering lamp whose wick has burnt down to an impotent blackened stub because you were afraid of the dark. The psychological response to a sense of loss is to cling to what is dying because of a fear of Death. This could be an identity, a relationship, a habit or a dream that cannot come to pass. Sometimes it is something, or someone’s time, to go.
The way the tree greets the sky come spring is by the shedding of last year’s leaves and the willingness to take rest in the roots of itself for a time. Its arrival enabled by its willingness to disappear. And every new bud, each one the shy promise of a new branch, a fruit and perhaps then a new tree.
Wherever a seed falls, there is the beginnings of a tree, and thence a forest.
Vitality is your birthright. And you earn it by letting go. There can be no vitality without flow, and there can be no flow without the courage to stop containing things. Change is how we move forward.
Real generation of Vitality is only possible through re-generation. And regeneration is only possible through walking, willingly or not, through the gates of an ending.
The Phoenix cannot rise in reborn splendour until it has succumbed to the flames and been reduced to ashes.
The wheat was grown and ripened, to be cut. The wheat sheaves were gathered to be threshed. The chaff was the part that shielded the kernel over the long summer but was always meant to be threshed and discarded. The kernel was always meant to be ground to make bread.
Letting go of what we were, is how we Become what we are meant to be.
WINTER THEN SPRING The retreating into the roots of oneself is not the losing of your name in a winter of resignation or a shying from the sun, but the casting off the vibrant leaves of who you were yesterday the practicing of letting go and the dwelling in the inner stillness so that you can learn grace, grow, and not just greet the sky come spring, but be the shining light at the very heart of the resplendence as your own new life blooms and sings it’s part in the great chorus, to the ready ears of a world that was always waiting for your voice.
TODAY’S INVITATION
The beautiful thing about facing the spirit of spring is the novelty of everything again. Things can be renewed if you can let them go. To surrender certainty means to welcome novelty.
Every idea you hold, about your parents, your partners, yourselves, who are your friends and your enemies in the world and how you stand in relation to that, what you feel you deserve and how the world ought to work, becomes like the upright pillars and crossbeams of your own internal Stonehenge. This is a metaphor for your psychology and model of the world.
Over time, you inherited some ideas from your parents, your friends, and our shared society. Some ideas and relationships are closer than others, and these form the inner and outer circles of your Stonehenge. They create your sense of safety, but they also contain and limit your experience and your understanding.
You, like all of us, unconsciously create this inner model of the world that provides a map of meaning to the outer world. And when one or more stones need to disappear, your circle now has a gaping hole in it, and you don’t know how to close the circle or to live exposed by its absence. This takes a kind of Vulnerability because you developed a way of being in the world in relationship with that thing that is now disappearing, and you are made, like all of us, out of a thousand relationships like this. The wider the gap, the more something new and unexpected can flow into that gap, and the bigger the invitation is to the adventure of life. You get to dismantle the ideas and relationships that no longer fit, the ones you inherited before you began to arrive at your own truth and understanding. You get to arrange the stones and the circle your way.
When you do this, you allow yourself also to be new, and you get to allow the spring lamb in you to enjoy the pure delight of encountering novelty again, with all its shaky legs and uncertainty.
You have to welcome tomorrow, standing naked of yesterday. Letting things go, is a lived belief in the truth of abundance.
Just be like this today: “Today, I am letting go of what cannot come with me. Today I am allowing myself and everything else, to be regenerated and new.”
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I’m so heartened to hear this Leanna. You must share with me what work you do.
Reading your book and recommending it to my patients! Thank you again for your work! Truly changing minds and changing lives