This has been my view for the last few days. Sick – oh, I’ve been so sick!
My heart has been in school, though, and this illness a wonderful lesson in letting go.
Last weekend I attended Hannah’s Vision Book workshop, and that workshop (such a lovely experience! Thank you, Hannah!), combined with a rich conversation with Julie Daley the next day, combined with so many synchronicities before and after it all have me letting go into the most enlivening surrender.
I’m saying yes to the grief that I’ve resisted for so long.
I’m saying yes to listening to and honoring my own deepest voice.
I’m saying yes to the universe aligning my life for the greatest good of all.
I’m saying yes to not working in the evenings anymore because I need space to connect with myself, to journal, to read good books. And to sleep!
I feel a new iteration of my work here readying to birth, too.
And the sparkly sense that, oh honey, you’ve (I’ve) no idea what’s in store!
I’ve never chosen a word-of-the-year, and resist doing so still, for some reason. But I have to say that if there could be something of the sort in my heart, letting go would be it.
Have you experienced this lighter side of letting go? What’s it been like for you?
Everything Belongs
Seasons are universal. Treat yours uniquely.
A word chooses me each year – I create a notebook around that word- so many thoughts and writings enter the pages and by the end of the year it is thick with insights- photos – poetry – musings and so much more- My word this year is FREE and relates so well to Letting Go – Letting go has so many layers that we do not even realize we are dealing with until we start to peel them away – one by one.
In my blog (which has been hit and miss due to surgeries) I have 2 posts that go well with what you are talking about:
LETTING GO- MOURNING AND MIRACLES – Oct 2012
WOW AND AWE – Jan 2013
These posts will better give my thoughts – seems so many of us travel our own paths but stumble across the same avenues and issues that help us grow !!
also – I am reminded of one of your drawing that also illustrate this -I don’t remember the post but it was a bubble of things that need to go out and things that should be let in – Hope I am remembering it correctly – same with letting go – makes so much room for the letting in :)
http://draftsandwhispers.blogspot.com
Comment by Bobbi — January 10, 2013 @ 9:33 amThanks for this, Bobbi. I think you’re so right on letting go being a layered process. There’s no point of arrival. Just continued opportunities to remember the practice.
Comment by Kristin — January 10, 2013 @ 9:36 amOh, this is so wonderful. I have not experienced this, yet, but I hope to – and your experience is such inspiration. Really. Thank you! xox
Comment by Lindsey — January 10, 2013 @ 9:39 amLindsey, so far the feeling has been, “So what was I so afraid of?” – like I’ve spent an unbelievable amount of energy not letting go of so many things and the cross-over into surrender, at least this time around (I’m guessing the need will arise again and again) so soft and easy by comparison. Totally not expected.
Comment by Kristin — January 10, 2013 @ 9:45 amOh, Kristin, I hope you are SO much better today. Yuck! Feeling sick is no fun, but there are gifts as you are discovering. This year I chose the word, “attend.” I want to witness, pay attention, and in some way document what I see — with no judgement, no need to fix. And as far as letting go? Yes, letting go has been a life-long practice for me — ever since I learned I had to let go or die 26 years ago. Learning how to do this, over and over and over again, has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. Big hug, Kristin.
Comment by Mary Montanye — January 10, 2013 @ 9:53 amMary, have I ever learned that piece of your story? What happened 26 years ago? I’m so grateful for the reminders that letting go is a lifelong practice.
Comment by Kristin — January 10, 2013 @ 11:03 amHoping you are feeling much better by now, Kristin. Letting go has been a theme for me also in recent years, to a greater degree in 2012 after major health issues in the spring seemed to shift almost everything for me. Sometimes it’s been a lighter process of relief, almost, and sometimes it’s been a real challenge to keep letting go of all that I felt I was being called to let go of, which also included a fair amount of grief and tears in the process. I’m happy to say that in the past few weeks I’ve felt a new sense of lightness and freedom. . and I trust that is part of the fruit of all this “letting go” I’ve cried through. I hear some freedom in what you wrote too, and hope that is part of your experience as well. Peace and good health to you!
Comment by Ellen — January 12, 2013 @ 10:22 pm