Day 225 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - We Think We Can Control...
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Lesson 225: We Think We Can Control...
“We think we can control. We think we can manage. We flail about, trying to control, in hopes that this will bring peace. Yet the only way to experience this deep feeling of safety, trust and peace, is to open and expand. To let go of the idea of control, completely.”
Today’s lesson just might be one of the greatest challenges of letting go. We think we’re in control of all aspects of our lives but if we were just to let go and let things run on course, would it actually fall off the tracks or proceed as per normal? Does surrendering make you feel uneasy? If you don’t feel ready to let go, then why not?
I have learned to let go over the course of this year. Good and bad things happen all the time whether we like it or not. We literally don’t have control of a mishap that occurs that we didn’t foresee coming. You can calculate how everything can happen on any given day but then a curve ball is delivered and you just adapt. When I think about it more, we really don’t have full control and we just think we do. Like, I think I’m going to be a successful healer one day. I have control of how I learn and study. I also need to work hard, establish connections and build myself into this role. Those are things I can work on but does not guarantee my success per se. I can open and expand and this can lead to results I would haven’t thought of. It’s possible if I don’t let go, or let go and let the Universe take over, that it comes to the same result. I don’t know what could happen really. I feel like this becomes such a philosophical question. If the path we choose is laid out and we surrender control, will it eventually just lead us where we need to go? I feel like that’s the lesson for today. we can’t really know what’s going to happen – we can envision, wish for and work towards something, but it can just as easily be deliverable in another way that the Universe has for us.
If we completely surrender to the Universe, it’s allowing a higher power to safely get us where we need to be. It involves so much trust and faith. The question is do you have it? I let go because the less I stop worrying in my head, the more I see synchronicity in my life and the right people have come along when I’ve needed them. I didn’t make this happen as much as the Universe made it happen. Really, sometimes without trying I’m placed on the right path, so why not just keep following that and see where it leads me? I feel so much peace in that though can understand why others may not. It’s a trust beyond measure which isn’t for everyone, but if you can delve into that level, it’s content like you can’t explain. Try it and see what happens.