Change looms ahead. Big Change. The trouble with change is that we believe we’re going to have to give up stuff.
Really, we Know we’re going to have to give up stuff. Secretly, we suspect what that stuff might be. Secretly, we don’t want to go there.
We imagine loosing loved ones, ideas, things, money. We imagine being unable to hold our space or our beliefs.
Very uncomfortable!! We have no idea what we’re going to get in return when give stuff up. We can’t even get past imagining what we may have to give up.
Back up. Look again. This is a trade. What is given? What is received? And most importantly, what’s motivating us to makes this change? What’s our why?
The world around you and me is dying. Stuff is going away. Every kind of stuff. Ripped away. That’s what comes before a breakthrough. Before a rebirth. Before a new life in a new world. Has to be this way.
The faster we give up stuff the faster we open a space for our new life. Our new world. Let’s give up stuff quickly. Willingly. Thoroughly. And let’s heal our losses quickly. Gently. Lovingly.
So we don’t have to be afraid of giving up stuff. We shift our energy from defending old stuff to creating new stuff. We don’t have energy for both. Let’s let our stuff go.
A wise man asked us to see a conveyonr belt moving in front of us, object after object passing our attention. And say to each, “I loved you once. You were golden to me. I picked you up. Now I see you bring mostly trouble. I set you down. Be on your way.”
In ancient Hawaiian tradition we begin life at the base of a high mountain with an empty bowl. As we move toward our goal at the top of the mountain, we pick up rocks and put them in our bowl. As we age and grow tired we see we cannot make it to the top unless we drop each stone in our bowl. This is our task today. Take out a few stones, bless them, and put them down.