The world is a place filled with all sorts of uproar and rushing and confusion. Don’t you ever want to step to the side out of the way and sit down to catch your breath—or even lay down and take a nap?
Exactly.
Sitting in silence allows you to move out of the pandemonium of the world and into your private haven of peace.
If you haven’t already, take a moment to sit in silence right now. If you’ve already done this, take this moment to do it again. Feel the peace. Allow it to infuse your body, mind, and spirit.
Something Better is Up Ahead!
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If you haven’t already sat in silence today, take a moment to do it right now. If you’ve already done this, take this moment to do it again.
Something Better is Up Ahead! But it won’t *just happen*; you have to help it along. One way to do that is by regularly sitting in silence. As explained in yesterday’s post, this will help you hear your Inner Wisdom. It’s by following your Inner Wisdom that you craft your soul-prospering life.
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Now that we’ve done a little cleaning and clearing of our environments as well as our minds and emotions, we have a little bit of space.
That means we have room for Silence.
Even if it’s only a tiny smidgen of room, it’s enough.
It’s through Silence that we can re-train ourselves to sense our Inner Wisdom.
Ideally, sit in Silence at the beginning of the day and then again right before bed. If this doesn’t work for you, then any time is a good time. Silence can be very restorative—and restful.
It doesn’t have to be a long, drawn-out thing—a few minutes can be beneficial. You don’t have to hold any particular position such as sitting in a lotus position. You don’t have to wear any type of special clothing—regular clothes or even your jammies will do. No special equipment is needed either.
All you need is yourself and a few minutes to just sit quietly.
When in Silence, sense the world around you—are there birds chirping? Do you hear traffic sounds? Is the sun just coming up—can you feel its warmth? Can you taste the breeze or do you notice the scent of the fresh air?
After doing this for a few minutes, turn your senses inward. Are you hearing the Still Small Voice? Do you feel a tug or a pull of a desire?
No worries if you don’t sense your Inner Wisdom now. And don’t worry if it seems like the only thing on the inside of you is Monkey Mind, or worry or sadness, or frustration. Listening to these, really listening as if it’s a beloved loved one trusting you with their fears, disappointments, and annoyances, you’ll gain valuable insights. Keep listening and soon you’ll sense your Inner Wisdom lovingly and gently offering comfort and help.
Your Inner Wisdom has always been right there for you. It’s there for you now and it will always be there for you, no matter what.
Don’t worry or be afraid or be hesitant. We’ll do this together. We’ll help each other and hold each other’s hand. No worries!
Remember, we’re doing this because Something Better is Up Ahead!
It resonated with me because it aligns with Marie Kondo’s philosophy about our homes being sacred spaces and honoring them. I love that! Although the article on Earth Altars talks about making your garden a sacred space, I think this can apply to all of our spaces—home, work, and community areas.
You might think that honoring a community space sounds weird and nearly impossible to do. Not so! Following the lead of Andy Goldsworthy, a world-renown Land/Environmental Artist, he uses found objects in nature to create art. The art is not intended to be permanent—he often uses icicles or creates mounds of sea rocks near the tide line. He makes art for the enjoyment of passersby.
As we let go of stuff in our homes and other spaces, let’s challenge ourselves to make something that’s a token of how we honor the spaces we are in. It doesn’t have to be a beautiful creation like the ones shown in the Earth Altars article or like what Andy Goldsworthy creates. It can be simple things such as a small pot of Gerbera Daisies in your kitchen, hanging a photo or a piece of your artwork in your living room, having a scented candle on your bedside table, or a small seasonal decoration on your desk at work.
The really neat thing about Earth Altars, Land/Environmental Art, and tokens of honoring our spaces, they are fun to create and very satisfying to view every day. Such a great way to celebrate ourselves and the marvelous work we’ve done this month!
Yay you! You done good, Kid!!
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Looks like I won’t make 30 Days of Letting Go before January is over.
For today I’m letting go of perfectionism and holding myself to goals that turn out to be unreasonable.
January is a very busy month for people in the accounting and finance industry. At the beginning of the month I thought setting the goal of 31 days of blogging about letting go was a reasonable goal. Turns out it was not. Instead, I will actually achieve 22 days of blogging about letting go. Of course I would have liked to have met my original goal, however, I know I did the best I could and my best for this January is 22 days of blogging.
Next month should be better. At least that’s my hope and my goal. Stay tuned to find out.
How did it go for you with your letting go? We still have one more day. Join me in doing the best we can in letting go tomorrow.
There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.
Jessica Hatchigan
You can only lose what you cling to.
Buddha
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival. Osho
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. Mandy Hale
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. Tony Schwartz
Pain will leave you when you let go.
Jeremy Aldana
It’s important to practice good self-care during this process of letting go. Giving away items, clearing out unhelpful thoughts from our minds, and changing habits and routines releases pent-up emotions that need to be cleared from our systems.
Here are things you can do to help yourself during this releasing process:
drink plenty of fluids
Water, tea, infusions of water with herbs, water with fruit, water with spices
eat nutritious food
Fruits, vegetables, lean meats, legumes, grains, etc.
eat at regular times
Keep yourself fueled up!
breathe
No special techniques needed. Just pause periodically in your day and take slow full deep breaths then slowly exhale, expelling all the air—especially the stale air at the bottom of your lungs
movement
Light exercise helps the body systems flush themselves. No need to do strenuous exercise. No need to spend hours exercising. Gentle movements to music you enjoy can be very restorative.
sleep
Give yourself the gift of a full night’s sleep
earthing
Spend time in Nature—even in your own yard. Observe the birds and animals, enjoy the sky, listen to the sounds of the breeze
sitting in silence
Whether you call it meditating, prayer, or quiet contemplation, taking short breaks throughout your day to tune inward and listen can be very restorative.
These are just a few self-care things you can do. You may have other practices that aren’t listed here. Perfectly fine. If it helps you flush out the old from your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self, then it’s a good practice.
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It’s been a while since I posted. I apologize for the delay and hope that you continued on with your letting go.
We must make space for all the Good Stuff that’s eager to come into our lives!
Here’s what I’ve let go of since I last posted:
~yet another pair of socks—what is it with me and socks this year?! 😉
~cleaned out the bottom shelf in my refrigerator—you know, the one where food gets pushed to the back and you can’t easily see it so you forget about it? Yeah. That one.
~shredded a small box of old files
~returned clothing purchases that didn’t fit properly
~returned boots and shoes that were too small
~challenged myself to stop hitting the snooze button in the mornings when my alarm rings. I was successful on 3 of those days.
How about you? Were you able to continue letting go of items, habit-patterns, and the like these past several days? I hope so.
Let’s let go so our hands are empty and open to welcome interesting new things into our lives!
Today I want to talk about another thing to do when letting go and stepping back.
When you’ve hit a wall and need to let go and take a step back, it’s a good time to throw away some stuff in your life.
Look around your living environment and where you work. Throw out items you’ve accumulated that are collecting dust. They represent locked up energy. Free your energy by releasing these things.
Look at the way you are spending your time: watching mind-numbing TV, hanging out with people who are negative and judgmental, overloading yourself with too many obligations. Let go of things that are not helping you—things and people that don’t make you feel energetic and hopeful and rarin’ to get going on your dreams.
Once you do this, you’ll be surprised and very pleased at the results. You’ll feel lighter as well as more positive and hopeful. And, regarding the project you’re temporarily stepping back from, you may find new insights that will help you take the next step
Sometimes you have to let go and let the chips fall where they may.
There have been times in my life when I’ve worked very hard on a project. I’ve made my way through problems and challenges, I’ve pushed through setbacks and obstacles. After all that, sometimes I’ve found that I[m still struggling. When I realize this, it’s time for me to consider just letting go and letting the chips fall where it may.
This doesn’t mean I give up or walk away. Instead it means I pause and take a step back and just observe. When I’ve done this sometimes things begin to work out on their own and I can see where to step in and help.
Other times when I take a step back and observe, it gives me a slightly different perspective and I might see a different path that was obscured before. If nothing else pausing, stepping back, and observing gives me a break from the project. Rest is always a good thing and can be very helpful.
How do you know when to let go and let the chips fall where they may? When you feel that you’ve hit a wall, when you aren’t making progress, when you feel like you’ve tried everything, when you’re spinning your wheels. When this happens, let go.
Do you have other techniques that you use when you feel you aren’t making progress? Please share in the comments below. Thank you!
