The letting go is the birthplace of receiving.

As with the breath; the end of our exhale is the emptying out, the letting go. From that space of nothingness, the beginning of receiving, the inhale, the next moment, the life force, the love.. has space to come in, to be received.
They need each other, inseparable, constantly dancing together.

To remember how it feels to let go, focus on the sensation of your out breath.

Attempting to avoid rejection is what ends up creating the rejection.

Many of our patterns of behaviour in our close adult relationships stem from how we learnt to navigate through our family dynamics growing up.
We often learn to adapt and adjust ourselves to fit in with our family, to make the most of our situation and to try to receive as much love or be in the way of as little harm/neglect as possible.
When we continue these adaptations and unconscious protective patterns as adults, they end up being the very things that are our part in indirectly creating the rejection/abandonment we are so desperately trying to avoid.

It’s so important to learn to see what patterns we have, so we can own them and update ourselves, our perceptions and our choices.

The only choice is whether we listen, learn to discern, to follow our heart or not, not in what it is saying.

The truth is there already.
Not the truth we perceive just through our mind or intellect-the truth on this level is in flux, filtered through our conditioning and unreliable. I’m talking of the truth in our bones, in our sage being, in our wise heart. It’s just there, silently sitting, not needing to shout or convince anybody.
It patiently knows we will come home to it when we are ready.