Letting Go & Allowing

You know when a topic comes up consistently in your life it is time to listen and pay attention. That is what has been happening to me this week. The theme has been letting go, surrendering, allowing, yielding.

I have not initiated the conversations. The topic has come up naturally, universally with a diverse group of friends, clients and family members. When I witness such profound synchronicities I am aware of not only our inter-connectedness but that there is something greater at work in the universe.

Each word - letting go, surrendering, allowing, yielding - are action words. Each action word imparts the wisdom to cease doing what you are trying to do and just Be. For each action, you remain actively present and supported. The support comes from a location other than your mind - your heart or your belly.

But why do we need to surrender?

First, let’s look at what we are doing that needs to stop.

Have you ever had the experience where you feel like your thoughts are on a hamster wheel, spinning and spinning but going nowhere? And those thoughts have a feeling tone which churns up more feelings as your thoughts spin?

Or, how about being fixated on a thought or problem which there is only one solution you can think of? Yet that solution appears to be getting you more stuck in the mud so it becomes like quicksand preventing you from moving forward?

Or how about a panicked mind where you you are so worried about something that it is like your thoughts are frozen in place and just generating fear?

These are all extreme examples of how our thoughts and feelings are intertwined and can create an acute reaction within us. The key word is reaction. We are reacting to our environment both internally and externally.

Letting go, allowing, yielding, surrendering create the space to respond to a situation instead of react to it.

So why now, at this moment in time, is there a universal message to pause and respond instead of react? With the rise in COVID starting again many fear the isolation and financial constrains occurring again or continuing for longer. The US election has demonstrated the huge divide and diversity amongst us regardless of which country we reside in. There is a lot of anger and frustration bubbling under the surface that feels so tangible you can touch it.

So, is the antidote to let go, allow, surrender, yield? I believe it is.

I remember when it was first brought to my attention that I needed to let something go. I had absolutely no idea how. My mentor gave me an image of a duck letting water flow off its back. Try as I might, I could not enact the feeling. And there in lies the issue. I was trying to do the action of letting go with my thoughts.

Quite simply, letting go is letting go of your thoughts, releasing them and dropping into your body instead of your being in your head. Your awareness is now located in your belly or in your heart. And you breathe deep down in your lower belly. When you do this your mind clears and allows for new energy to come in.

When I am doing an energy treatment on a client, the energy moves and is received when you are in a state of Allow. There is a tube of energy that runs parallel to your spine from the top of your head to your perineum. When you are in allow, this Central Channel is open and connected at either end to Source and the Earth. In this receptive mode your mind is still. This state is the exact same state athletes and artists experience when they are in The Zone.

Consider the qualities of Being when you are in The Zone - stillness, mental clarity, peace, open, silence, receptive, oneness.

What would your world be like if you were experiencing more peace in your life? What would your relationships be like if you and those around you were more still? How would your community be if more around you were open minded? How would society be different if we had more clarity on the issues that divide us?

As I open to the possibilities of allowing, letting go, surrendering and yielding I sense a deep wisdom that is opening up to the collective as an option for how we can respond to our environment instead of react to it. This option is not passive. Getting out of your head and into your heart or your belly allows for new possibilities and opportunities to arise. At this point in time it feels like we need new ways of responding to old problems. What we have been doing simply no longer works. It is time to shed the old and allow a new response to be created collectively.