If you let go, something will happen.
Fear is always anticipation of the unknown.
Most human energy flow problems reate to
the inability to relax.
Fear of letting go.
If you let go, something will happen.
Fear of the unknown.
Ration mind::wants to make a deal::
first tell me what will happen,
and then I’ll let go.
F**k you.
No one knowns what’s going to happen.
Ever.
The future – next moment – is unknowable – unknown.
Rational mind won’t believe that.
He is afraid to.
Paul Williams: Das Energi
We all hold on to so much, and all to our detriment.
From the belongings we amass, weighing us down, cluttering our lives, to the grudges we lug around with us everywhere we go - most of our lives are so filled with “stuff” it’s a wonder we have any room at all for anything new to come in.
Many health practitioners, holistic and otherwise, will tell you that the cause of so much physical illness and disease is our chronic “holding on” to things.
Your massage therapist may alert you to the areas in your body where energy is blocked, where you’re unwittingly holding back the free flow of Chi or life force.
Your chiropractor may point out to you the various spots where you’re literally, physically holding on – clenching your shoulders, tightening your neck, locking your knees. Indicating where the empty space between your joints has been compressed, keeping you tight, tensed, rigid, bound.
And your therapist may apprise you of the dangers of holding on to all those upsets from your past. An unhappy childhood. A failed marriage. A foolish decision. A loved one gone without you having the chance to say goodbye.
We spend so much of our lives holding on to the past and present that the future has no space to happen. But to change our lives, to better ourselves, to improve our outlook, to uplift our spirits – we need to keep moving forward, into the future. Nothing new can happen if we keep it all locked out.
And as Paul Williams points out in the above quote from his Bestselling book Das Energi, it’s usually some form of fear that keeps us this way. Stagnant. Frustrated. Sick and tired.
But the unknown is our friend. Giving up all that we “know” – our judgments, our blame, our disappointments, our regrets, our illnesses, our pain, even our beliefs about which we’re so darned certain – liberates us to let something new and different happen.
Once we understand – and trust – that the unknown is actually the infinite source of all possibility – and a loving, benevolent one at that – the place where the stuff of our dreams are made manifest, then we can freely, joyously, enthusiastically dive into that abundant and boundless wellspring of fulfillment. And drink. Time and time again.
How? By doing nothing more (or less) than letting go.
What have you got to lose?
Everything!
And isn’t that wonderful?
years?
