Letting Go To Know

Sometimes it may seem impossible or at least agonizing to live with not knowing what's next, or what to do or what if.  Letting go of that can seem like a feat beyond our understanding.  How do you let go?  Willingness is the first step.  Being willing or at least being willing to be willing will help us to  move in that direction.  If we are not willing we can ask ourselves what is keeping me from being willing to let go of the need to know?

The answer to that question is usually some form of fear and it often shows up as the need to control.  Some part of us knows we really can't control all outcomes, but we like to think we can at least try!  The truth is the more we can let go and listen to our inner guidance system the more peace we will experience in the process and the "answers" can come to us as we are now peaceful enough to hear them.

"But I can't let go! It keeps whirling around in my head no matter what I do!"  Then let it whirl and focus your attention on the next thing in front of you.  The answers will come, they always do.

When in Hell, Don't Do As the Hellians!

"When you are going through hell don't stop to take pictures." - Wally Amos, better known as Famous Amos.

I am one of those who tends to not only take pictures, but start a huge scrap book.  Something in me thinks that if I have a detailed account carefully preserved it will somehow protect me from future pain.  Tricky ego.  The truth is that is the ego's trick to keep me in the pain.  How do I know?  Because I fell for it - many times!

When in hell - don't do as the Hellians!  I think of the Movie "What Dreams May Come" where the people in hell are moaning and groaning and pulling everyone around them down into the mire, gloom and doom.  I'm not saying you should never vent, and by all means if a painful feeling presents itself feel it. Move through it.  The key word being "through".  So many times we start to feel the feeling and turn around to run from it as fast as we can.  In turning around to run we get disoriented and end up running around in circles - in hell.

When in hell, have no fear.  It's the fear that gets ya.  Don't focus on the outer conflict, turmoil, struggle or whatever.  You don't have to go all sugary and lace with it either.  Just get present to the feeling that is presenting itself.  Have faith that you are moving through - not stuck forever in it.  Don't look down into the mire, look within to your innate strength. Heaven is there.

What Your Experience Is Telling You

"Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within." -A Course In Miracles

So what have you "beheld within"?  (Note the past tense?) You can deduce this by what you are experiencing now.  Allow your experience to be your guide not your "reality."

Are you experiencing harmony or dissension in your relationships?  Answer that and you can discern whether or not you have beheld harmony or dissension within.  Often we are attacking ourselves with very little or no awareness.

Are you experiencing abundant health, abundant wealth, abundant joy?  If not, you are not beholding it within.

Do you experience giving and receiving unconditional love and non-judgement?  Answer that and you can discern whether or not you have beheld unconditional love and non-judgement towards yourself.

Answering these questions is not a way to beat yourself up.  All disharmony without is a call to harmony within. Covering your pain with a coating of "harmony" will not work, rather asking your pain for guidance towards what is out of alignment and bringing it back to Truth will work. Ask with a curious heart.  Inquire as a means to find the place that is blocking you and with the intention of beholding true perspective within.

Are you experiencing light, peace and joy.  If so, you are beholding these things.  Focus there.