Monday Morning Insights-Allowing to trust:~Joanie Lane
What if you could learn to ALLOW yourself to trust everything, wholly and completely? How would it be to feel entirely at peace with absolutely nothing bothering you? Generally we walk through our lives in this state of self importance. As if we know what's best for us and those in our life. We fool ourselves into thinking we have control over what happens in our lives. But when something happens without our having a hand in it, we suddenly come to the realization of the truth; that none of us has any control over the events that occur in our lives. Certainly not the outcome. Because although we can plan an event we never know how it will turn out. And if we are unhappy with the end result because it isn't what we planned then we experience disappointment and suffering. Often something dramatic has to happen before we realize that we have no power with the outcome of anything. We may try to guide things into going our way by planning, and sometimes that helps to keep things going in a certain direction, but when the train is rolling down those tracks there is no way to stop the result. When we learn to make our plans and then ALLOW the plan to unfold itself to us, we are trusting and accepting that since we have no control over the outcome we do have control over our response to whatever happens. We can accept it, find the positives in it and be grateful for it. Using humor is an excellent way to practice allowing trust. By laughing at the unexpected outcome we aren't taking it or ourselves so seriously. We are simply enjoying the outcome to the fullest. One reason we humans try to control things is because of our own inner turmoil and self doubts. We have this dialog going on inside our minds that we've created and perfected over the years. It could come from a parent or from our peers but wherever it comes from or how old this dialog is, it's running our thoughts out of fear of losing control. <----- THIS is what we might want to laugh at because thinking we ever had control is actually funny! In taking ourselves too seriously the joke is on us. And we have the choice to be upset and suffer or laugh and enjoy life. In order to find happiness in the events of life we must accept that we have no control over anything. We must have faith. We must release the doubts in our mind. Look at it this way, all of us are on a giant rock flying through space, controlled only by the precarious balancing points of planets and the sun. And we have absolutely no control over anything. When we come to a place in life where we have no choice but to have faith we find trust in the very energy that created us. The same energy that we are a part of. When we leave the pretense of control behind and accept that life goes along the way life goes along, then we ALLOW ourselves the freedom of just going along for the ride. We may choose a preferred destination, and sometimes we can choose who we ride along with, but we never know how bumpy the ride might be during the trip. If we learn to accept the ride as it is, even if we have to hang on tight, we may just learn to enjoy the ride. We may see that in the surrendering to just ALLOW we find that freedom, joy and peace was there all along. *Joanie Lane is owner & operator of a "A Positive Light" meditation & spiritual center. For more information on Joanie and the center visit www.apositivelight.com or her blog Joanielane.com
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