This is a time of great change for my fiancee and I. He is retiring, we are selling our home, and we are moving across the country to start a whole new life. Strangely enough, I have experienced almost this identical scenario before in my life, on more than one occasion, and so it seems that I should be experienced with this idea of letting go of the old to embrace the new.
And yet, as we vascillated back and forth yesterday about renting a home in our new state, trying to be 'in control' of every aspect of the decision making process, he gently reminded me that we should, in fact, flow with the Universe. To me this means stop trying to 'push the river.' Allow life to take you where it will.
What extraordinary lives we could lead if only we could stop trying to control our destiny and go forward with faith. This is my life lesson and here I am at the drawing board once more to see what I have learned.
Change happens each and every moment, with each and every breath we take. In his book, "Wherever you go there you are" Jon Kabat Zinn says, "You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf." He is speaking here of the eternal chain of thoughts that flow through the mind. It all starts here with the mind. Once we learn how to allow our thoughts to flow and beocme less attached to them, we begin to learn inside the letting go that we can then apply to our whole lives.
Just for today, try to flow with the river of life. It's so much more fun than trying to swim upstream.
Namaste
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