Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behaviour does. – Timber Hawkeye
Tag: Surrender
Acceptance
“I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.” ~Sheng Yen
I try to follow the dictates above as I find this process helps me work through the many challenges in my life. The one I struggle with the most is “Acceptance.”
When I cannot accept myself or the problem that is challenging me, then the next steps of dealing with it and letting it go can not happen.
Accepting and not interfering with the natural essence of nature, you will find it heals itself. It’s the same with us. When we allow ourself to be, to accept this moment or challenge no matter how hard it seems, we can begin to heal.
We all seem to be happy to identify our thoughts and what the problem is, but rarely do we want to identify or accept what the event reveals about us. Whenever I was confronted with a challenge in my life, I began to notice that feelings of frustration and anger came to the surface and I wanted to give up immediately.
These are the feelings that we need to face and acknowledge in ourselves because these are what are limiting us from moving forward and discovering our true potential.
When I started to see a pattern, I began to question why I wanted to give up when I felt challenged. I realised it was fear. Fear of being vulnerable and exposed and fear of not being good enough. It takes time to understand ourselves and sometimes we need guidance from others too, so be patient.
Once I accepted this and started to work at changing the limiting beliefs I had about myself, I was able to move forward and change.
Resisting the pain and not facing who we are in the pain, only prolongs our healing.
Become aware of the feelings that surface when life challenges you, because when you identify these patterns and face them, you can begin to practice letting them go.
We all have parts of ourself that we don’t like or don’t want to see and yet, facing those parts of self through meditation, counselling and stillness, you will begin to understand how to work with them rather than against them.
“The greatest challenge in your life is discovering who you are, the second greatest is accepting what you find.” – author unknown
The process of surrender
Lynette Dickson teaches relaxation, yoga and meditation to people with chronic illness and the general public. She shares her story in the magazine “Wellbeing” describing her journey with Multiple Sclerosis.
I wanted to share a paragraph she wrote on her daily process of surrendering with Yoga and Meditation.
“How do I interpret my journey? What does it mean for me? The honest answer is I believe I am configuring my energy system. For two-and-a-half years I have devoted most of my daily thoughts to striving for the highest I was capable of. I have used the power of my mind to visualise yoga, when I was unable to do it because of MS, meditate, chant ancient mantra’s of light, relax and transform my daily experience of life.
I haven’t been perfect. I have make mistakes in the way I relate to people. I have been very human and these moments of perceived failure have caused me excruciating emotional pain. What I have done is maintain the original intention to move toward freedom and that intention planted the seed for a tree of transformation that is still growing.
It’s not a miracle in the sense that I went to sleep one day and woke up cured the next; and I’m not extraordinary in the sense of being particularly gifted in any way. I have just worked very hard. The techniques I have used are based in ancient practice and anyone can learn them.”
She is inspiring! There is no easy way out of our pain, there are no quick fixes in healing our emotional wounds. I shared Lynnette’s journey because she share’s truthfully about walking through difficulties and confronting fears.
She has not cured her MS but she has cleared away years of emotional wounding through daily practice of Yoga and meditation, enabling her to access the world of spirit and a new energy to give her the strength to move forward.
If you decide to face your fears, the wounds of your past, remember always…..Use ancient practice’s or energy healing to move through your pain. Although at times it seems too difficult, through surrendering daily to your old ways, you will find freedom, peace and more energy to create your dreams.
“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” – Marianne Williamson
LIVING IN THIS MOMENT 