At one point in our lives we may have concluded either,“This is just the way I am,” or, “This is just the way life is.”  Do these statements feel true for you?  What else is possible?  Typically these types of statements arise when we simply can’t go on living life the way we’ve been living.  We’re on the verge of a breaking point…a breakdown of what was, and an opportunity to breakthrough into something new.  It’s an exciting and challenging time, and the challenging or painful aspects of it can override the exciting aspects of it.  Usually what comes in between the breakdown and the breakthrough is a point of surrender.  A moment of a deep acknowledgement can arise with words such as, “I can’t do this anymore.” Many times this point of surrender comes when we have been trying really hard to either figure things out or change and it’s just not working.  The challenge is that we have been trying to change in our minds and avoid or escape the pain and discomfort we’re feeling in our bodies.  This method, although inviting in some aspects (in the sense of being in alignment with what many of us have been taught- to avoid feeling and think our way through things), tends to amplify the pain rather than alleviate it.  

    The reality is that we are more than our minds and the more we try to avoid some aspects of our experience, the more they'll try to get our attention.  Know that it is not bad or wrong that we’ve been taught to rely mainly on our mental body and downplay or try to control our emotional body; it’s just the way it has been for many of us.  Above, is a video that I created recently that speaks a little to my own journey through this process of surrendering and opening to new possibilities.  What are you being asked to surrender or let go of?  What are you willing and ready to open to now?  How does it get any better than this?
 


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