let go

The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

Eckhart Tolle


This is the card I picked yesterday. I pick one everyday as a way of changing my attention and focus onto what is at the root of my life rather than whats on the surface. This card shows up for me periodically. It says so much to me --that you can't run from pain or ignore it. At the root of all pain is some feeling that you are inadequate or wrong or just not good enough. We never want to look at that. It so much easier to just blame blame blame.


It's not easy to face pain, not easy to sit in sadness and not try to change it. We live a society that has a solution for everything. We have so many distractions out there ready to give us a reason not to deal with our life. We don't have to go far. It's effortless to to be consumed with everything but the thing that will give us freedom. It takes great effort and courage to stop and deal with the things in our life that aren't working.


We are a society of people stuffing our closets full of all the burdens in our life, the things we choose to flat out deny their existence and the "I will deal with that later" category. And in the end the closet door can't remain closed, it will bust open. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we cause us so much more grief and heartache? What if today you chose one thing to deal with? What if you pulled one thing out of the closet and looked it in the eye and put it in its place?

There is freedom on the other side of the pain. There is great sigh of relief to let go of being right. If you can make peace with a situation, then make peace with it. The cost of letting it sit in your closet, is your life. Stillness comes at the cost of letting go of your position. If you can live in the place of joy and abundance then the rest will correct itself.

I am so grateful to have a family that challenges me and my commitment to this path. Our families give us great opportunities to really see where we are on our life path. They can trigger us like no one else. They can shine a light on things that anger us and make us feel crazy. Well at least mine can. ;) It doesn't change that I love them more than anything in the world. But what a great opportunity they provide me to look at the parts of me that can get so infuriated after spending time with them. Every time I get a little better. Every visit I get to be more me. It's truly an amazing gift you can give yourself. Just try letting go.

Today I am grateful for my abundant life. Today I am letting go.