Acceptance doesn’t mean you are passive and don’t still take necessary actions. But with acceptance you gain a different place to step from within your being, a place of more wise, empowered action.
Acceptance is more powerful than we often think. It gives us back our ability to step in alignment with the flow of life and to move with the path of least resistance.
Whether we realise it or not, love is always present. It is just not in the way we usually think of love.
Love allows us to breathe. It brings life force to all things. Love radiates as light through the sky. Love is the simple presence of our soul. Love is serenity and knowing of Self. Love is grace.
Even in difficult times, in our darkest hours, love is there prior, as the overlooked awareness and power to know we exist.
“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.” – Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.
You are not your image.
You are much more than any image.
And besides: line up six people and ask them what they see.. looking at the same image… and they could all give you a different answer.
There is no substance or reality in any image.
We seek connection and fulfilment through so many things, when the fundamental vehicle to help connect and fulfill us, is overlooked and with us the whole time…
That is, being at home and present with our own breath.
Every time you breathe out, you can surrender. Over and over again.
Learning to lean in to trusting the wisdom of life itself.
Surrendering is not a giving up. It is not passive. It is a very engaged, alive, trusting way of being. Present, connected and whole.
I could. I can. I choose to. I will. I want to. I feel like.
‘Shoulds’ are rarely helpful.
Use them to become aware of the things you are imposing on yourself.
Sometimes shoulds might help us see something we want to improve on some level, but it is more empowering to language them in a more consciously engaged way.
This small change in language can help generate and change our relationship with ourself and our level of motivation and energy for things.
We do all sorts of things, some consciously, some unconsciously, to move away from our difficult feelings.
Often with anxiety we try to move away from it by staying busy in our thinking or being distracted in doing things.
What helps relieve anxiety is, counter-intuitively, to move toward the anxious part in us and offer it our listening, open attention.
What is this anxious part in you wanting you to hear? What does it need? It might simply need to be heard and reassured by your awareness. It might help you know if there is something you do need to address and do, that you’re trying to put aside or minimise.
Listening to our anxiety as a communication from a part of us, is different from continuing with anxiety provoking thoughts. It is more like taking our inner child under our wing and giving it support.
When something triggers us, it can be distressing and uncomfortable.
However if we can remain connected with ourselves and our intention to heal, we can use it to help us know where we are holding past pain, and where we can bring consciousness and turn pain into understanding.
A trigger usually indicates a past version of ourselves holding something unheard, unresolved and needing loving attention.
Whether we might receive being heard by another or not is secondary to hearing our own heart first.
When deep inner silence merges with the vast silence of the sky, this is true joy.
It is necessary to be prepared to attend earnestly to the difficult and uncomfortable stuff with ourselves and others. This takes a certain level of seriousness.
However lightness is a powerful gift and we need to not be too heavy and hard and burdened with ourselves; to stay open, receptive, able to move and grow.
RATNA DYER 