Your Best Self- TURNING THE TIDE, (The Journey of Releasing)

It's very easy to get pulled in and believe whatever we see or hear. One moment good news comes and we're elated. Another moment, something upsetting and we're tied up in knots. Yet, the very nature of life is that one moment come after another, some pleasant, some otherwise. To jump on the bandwagon, and get tossed around by all the changes takes not only our peace of mind, but compassion and clarity from us. Here is a wonderful step in the journey of releasing. It shows us how to stay centered and not jump on the bandwagon.

We can't wait to take trips of all kinds. They feel adventurous, exciting, as if we are living fully. But so many trips we jump into take us in the wrong direction, or leave us feeling upset and scattered when they're over. Our thoughts, emotions, also take us on trips of all kinds, causing so many crashes. In this wonderful step, we simply don't take the trip. We stop, stay where we are and watch the invitation we are being given and where it truly leads.

Most of our time is spent looking either backwards or forwards, and in this way we become stuck. We try  to understand, complete or repeat the past. Or, control every aspect of the future, be careful not to make the same mistake. This wonderful step in releasing, offers a way to stop the uproar within, and return to this very moment where all answers, healing and happiness are waiting for you.

Most of the time we are filled with cravings, unfulfilled hopes, and disappointment. We do not stop and take a moment to fully realize what we have been given, and are being given moment by moment. Or to give thanks for it. We also do not take a moment to notice what we are giving, or the difficulty we may be causing others. As we practice this new step on the Journey of Releasing, we put an end to the blindness that keeps us feeling empty and incomplete.

In order to feel safe and in charge, we get involved with all situations and relationships. We poke our hands in, try to fix, adjust and change things. Or we use our hands to bring something towards us, or perhaps push it away. This only pulls us in further, entangling us in painful ways. When we do the opposite, take our hands off and observe, magic starts happening, and so much distress dissolves.

Most of the time our first reaction to whatever comes, is to say no. We refuse. Unless what happens suits our images, needs and fantasies our energy goes to fighting it, refusing to experience what life has brought. Not only does this tie us up in knots and drain our energy, it prevents the natural flow of happiness and freedom that is our basic birthright. As we stop refusing, it becomes natural and easy to ride whatever inner or outer wave life brings. Not only is it easy, what might have seemed threatening becomes a source for growth and also enjoyment.

We feel so many things in our lives didn't turn out as we hoped it would, relationships, jobs, vacations, encounters. Much of our time and energy is spent thinking of ways to correct whatever happened.  We feel deeply disappointed and blame ourselves and others for it. Feel  like failures. This wonderful new step in the Journey of Releasing offers a new way.

There are so many conditions we place upon a person or situation before we are willing to embrace it fully. To welcome it and even go a step further and give it love. In this pivotal step in the Journey of Releasing we explore how to embrace a situation or person, even when it seems unwanted. Including ourselves. Then, as we do this, our usual notions about others and our life changes naturally, and we become part of the healing, uplifting, and endlessly supportive flow of love.

Our lives consists of moments, one after the next. Usually they race by without our even noticing. Instead, we are busy holding onto one moment or not allowing the next to comment. Or we listen to our racing mind, judging our moments, rejecting them or trying to fix them up. But this is the way we miss our true life. This wonderful step in releasing stops all that. We step out of the whirlwind of our mind and really take a moment. We let it be just as it is, taste it thoroughly. Then, we allow the next moment to come and be just what it is as well. No longer opposing the flow of time, not only does our energy return, but great ease and happiness with the very process of change itself.

So many unwanted moments come to us during our lives, illness, trouble in relationships and sudden news that disrupts our plans. These moments can stay for a long while, causing us to whirl around and around in their grip. The pain is prolonged, we stay stuck, and the memory of the moment returns again and again. But there is a way to end this.

During this episode we discover a new step for freeing ourselves from the moment, and freeing the moment from us. We learn how to let go of wanting things to be any different at all. As we do so we see that our pain doesnt come from the moment, but from our reaction to it. And, oddly enough, as we do this, we also free the moment to go on its way, and transform.