This Weeks Gratitude 29

For our capacity and willingness to choose to let go of the past

This Week’s Action Statement

“ I am grateful for the ever changing flow of life. I celebrate my capacity to choose to let go of what has been, to lay down the pull of the familiar to be fully open to the infinite possibility of this brand new now. I give thanks for my willingness to cleanse the old to be fresh for each morning’s gift. I am grateful that I will be well taken care of when I let go.”

This Week’s Action

The past is a curious thing. It has a lure. It teases us and convinces us of its importance and then infiltrates our moments to mess with our moving forward in life. It wraps around our feet and heart and mind like a chain and tells us in whispers that it is the determiner of direction, happiness, peace...that the future is a direct result of every element that has been. And, the perspective is supported and reinforced by family, friends, culture, and the media. “Learn from the past”, we are told. “History repeats itself”, echoes in our being. Our moments start to seem familiar. We keep having the same type of relationships. We go about routines, following the same path or technique or direction. In fact, we seek the familiar, the known, to give us a false sense of comfort. And, the cost?...the full experience of the adventure of life...that’s all.

So, that is one way to live. Well, here is a thought that will draw a line in the sand for you: the past does not determine the present or the future...unless we choose it. Yes, we are born again each moment with a clean slate of possibility, given a new lease on life, as they say. It is called letting go...releasing the past...clearing the influence of days gone by...surrender...clearing the energetic memory of toxic experience.

It is true that patterns are developed by repetition. The nervous system creates pathways from repetitive thought, action, and experience...because it assumes that this is what we desire. If that desire is for the easy, familiar, “comfortable” life, then this is useful, or so it seems. I ask you, is that what you came here for? Given this infinite playground of possibility, why would you want to repeat the same over and over...like a perpetual Groundhog Day.

Freedom comes in letting go of what was, breathing it out to stand on the threshold of now, open and eager to drink in the gift of the Higher Self’s direction laid at the altar of our awareness. The Higher Self is always steering us toward new awareness and an opportunity to raise our frequency through experience. Honestly, it does not make mistakes…though they may feel like or appear to be so. Trust your guidance. Especially in these profound and transformative times.

The multiverse is giving us an energetic douche...a cleansing of proportions we have never experienced before. And what are so many doing with this benevolence? Kicking and screaming and clinging to the past, resisting the momentum of our very own cells to reclaim their true glory. Stop it! Throw open the door of the now and say yes to all that is here and coming, the adventure you were designed for. The past is over. It’s influence is insignificant. Let go of holding to the rock. Let yourself surrender into the rushing waters of the life well lived. Your delight is beckoning. It requires a conscious choice to embrace it...and that choice is to let go.

Forget the old ways...we are designed for change. Our cells and nerves replicate. We are given a new day after the darkness swallows our previous choices...a new day to live our perfect dream. Choose and practice letting go. Notice the thoughts that recycle familiar pain and limits. Notice the patterns that give you a comfortable routine of the same old shit. Look how your words and friends and work and movements and beliefs are like the leaf in the eddy of the stream. Round and round they go...and we think it is comfortable because we “know its dimensions”. It is limiting and robs us of discovering and reclaiming who we are.

In this moment, let go. Lay down the forms and the thoughts and the actions of that last now and move forward with open heart and mind into the next creation. Allow change even in the routines of your life. Look for something new. Do one thing differently. Take a new direction to work. Eat something different. Put the pants on with the other leg first. Change a familiar routine. Develop a new skill, craft, or talent. Let go of the way it has been. Surrender to who you fully are by holding on to nothing. Talk about adventure. Just see how beautiful life can be...