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 208 - A Year to Clear - What Feels Unresolved?

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Lesson 208: What Feels Unresolved?

Today we are to reflect on the statements below:

• One thing in my life that feels unresolved in my life is______

• It is safe for me to trust that things will work out because______

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My answers:

• One thing in my life that feels unresolved in my life is truly knowing what I should do with my life.

• It is safe for me to trust that things will work out because as I’ve opened my heart and space to the possibilities, things I’ve wished, hoped  or dreamed for have come to fruition.

Day 195 - A Year to Clear - Trust In The Divine Process

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Lesson 195: Trust In The Divine Process

Today we are to consider the statement: It is safe for me to let go of attachment and trust in the divine process because______

I think for anyone following my journey this year, it has been solely focused on my spirituality. I have worked hard to being the best version of myself. That’s facing some hard truths, dealing with emotions I didn’t realise I held onto, trying to practise compassion and really opening myself to the Divine.  There are times when I have had doubt and really not trusted that there is some higher power really setting me on my path. I guess the logical mind takes over and having faith in something that’s bigger than yourself is second nature. I got so much to learn whilst opening myself to being the truest self I can be. To complete that statement, I write this:

• It is safe for me to let go of attachment and trust in the divine process because I know I am being guided onto the right path and all will be revealed in due time.

Clearing is a journey. There is still much to learn and be open to. I think I am only scraping the surface of what I can learn. I think all the tools I’ve learned through this process will allow me to reach my greatest potential in life.

Day 42 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Your Own Particular Needs...

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Lesson 42: Your own particular needs...

We are led on experiences that are meant for our highest self. Our soul path is one we have to trust even if following blindly. We don’t always have the answers and really, we aren’t always meant to. Our future isn’t set and we are always making choices that allows for experiences to flow.

Today I am to ask myself – do I know where I am going? If I have no idea, can I let go and trust, open myself to the mystery and what does it feel like to walk blindly?

I don’t know exactly where I am going but I have a little bit of an idea. I mean, I am currently on my own spiritual awakening and my journey is amazing, in that I am constantly learning, not only about myself but something much more larger than myself. I find it hard to let go of past difficulties though I am currently working through those situations that plague my mind, most of which is buried in my subconscious. I am putting a lot of trust in the universe to send me what I need when I am ready. It’s a slow release for something much grander for my life. I just know I’m here to make a difference and I look forward to it.

I am finding that my living through experience is going really well. There’s so much to be gained when you start to live like this and there is a hunger to learn more. I want to make sure my life is meaningful , not for anyone else but enriching for me. I might seem late to the party as a lot of my experiences are being experienced now that I’m 33, though I find it’s never too late to achieve what you want in life. I am not going to be the limiting factor in anything I do.

It’s been hard to let go and trust the universe having a plan. There has been a lot of doubt in my skills and ability, but I believe that it’s something new to me, and therefore that’s where that fear sets in. Definitely pushing comfort zones and I will continue doing this. The path is wide open and I’m just taking it as it comes.