Day 225 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - We Think We Can Control...

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Lesson 225: We Think We Can Control...

“We think we can control. We think we can manage. We flail about, trying to control, in hopes that this will bring peace. Yet the only way to experience this deep feeling of safety, trust and peace, is to open and expand. To let go of the idea of control, completely.”

— Sara Wiseman

Today’s lesson just might be one of the greatest challenges of letting go. We think we’re in control of all aspects of our lives but if we were just to let go and let things run on course, would it actually fall off the tracks or proceed as per normal? Does surrendering make you feel uneasy? If you don’t feel ready to let go, then why not?

I have learned to let go over the course of this year. Good and bad things happen all the time whether we like it or not. We literally don’t have control of a mishap that occurs that we didn’t foresee coming. You can calculate how everything can happen on any given day but then a curve ball is delivered and you just adapt. When I think about it more, we really don’t have full control and we just think we do. Like, I think I’m going to be a successful healer one day. I have control of how I learn and study. I also need to work hard, establish connections and build myself into this role. Those are things I can work on but does not guarantee my success per se. I can open and expand and this can lead to results I would haven’t thought of. It’s possible if I don’t let go, or let go and let the Universe take over, that it comes to the same result. I don’t know what could happen really. I feel like this becomes such a philosophical question. If the path we choose is laid out and we surrender control, will it eventually just lead us where we need to go? I feel like that’s the lesson for today. we can’t really know what’s going to happen – we can envision, wish for and work towards something, but it can just as easily be deliverable in another way that the Universe has for us.

If we completely surrender to the Universe, it’s allowing a higher power to safely get us where we need to be. It involves so much trust and faith. The question is do you have it? I let go because the less I stop worrying in my head, the more I see synchronicity in my life and the right people have come along when I’ve needed them. I didn’t make this happen as much as the Universe made it happen. Really, sometimes without trying I’m placed on the right path, so why not just keep following that and see where it leads me? I feel so much peace in that though can understand why others may not. It’s a trust beyond measure which isn’t for everyone, but if you can delve into that level, it’s content like you can’t explain. Try it and see what happens.

Day 62 - A Year to Clear - Surrender

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Lesson 62 - Surrender

“Very little grows on jagged rock.

Be ground. Be crumbled,

so wildflowers will come up

where you are.

You have been stony for too many years.

Try something different.

Surrender.”

— Rumi

Today's lesson is all about reading this quote and gaining some inspiration.

I think for me, I really like  to analyse and break things down, which kind of defeats the purpose considering the quote. From my understanding, I take this quote as getting out of your comfort zone to try something new. If we surrender to what the Universe gives us, then it's meant to be exactly the way it is. I know the Universe doesn't give us too much that we can't handle. But this quote can be so much more on an emotional level. We've built ourselves up, based on our experiences, whether we've built a wall to protect ourselves, or we've just completely closed off on some matters, we've lived a certain way and react to certain situations based on our reality. Even if you haven't done this, maybe you've been taught/conditioned to think a particular way on topics, classed some subjects as taboo or have clear reactions to fixed situations. We've grown accustomed to living a conclusive way, wouldn't you say? This is totally fine because it's just our nature to protect ourselves or it's just the lives we live based on our environment, though in doing so, it doesn't allow us to be completely open. It's about being more open, allowing some different experiences to flow through and learning a different way of living by being more exposed.

That's just my two cents. What are your thoughts?