Today is January 23rd, and breaking from my usual tradition of reading from Simple Abundance right before I go to sleep at night, I read today’s benediction early, and am so glad that I did. It is titled Accepting Real life. Something that is sometimes hard for me. I usually try to trick my mind into focusing on the goal instead of the journey to the goal, sometimes this is what gets me through the day. But as Sarah reminds us
“… I have discovered that much of my struggle to be content despite outside circumstances has arisen when I stubbornly resisted what was actually happening in my life at the present moment. But I have also learned that when I surrender to the reality of a particular situation-when I don’t continue to resist, but accept- a softening in my soul occurs.”
When I read todays meditation it zinged my heart, and helped me realize a refocus is in order, and that I am in desperate need of acceptance about my circumstance. Sarah tells us that when we accept our circumstances we “… relax… change our vibration, our energy pattern… and are once again able to tap into the boundless positive energy of the Universe. Acceptance also illuminates reality so we can see the next step.”
Today I am accepting the reality that my house is a mess, I weigh what I weigh (despite wishing otherwise), and my bank account is not what I desire it to be. That’s ok because this is real life. And today I am letting go of the struggle. How about you?
I don't believe this! Arrggghh! I had this long comment typed and ready to send. I was making a correction near the end and I guess pressed the wrong key and pffft! Gone! I'll try again - Victoria
ReplyDeleteJen - thank you for writing this particular post. I was in fact going to post about today's "benediction" (I *love* that you call it that). I wish to publicly accept certain things in my life. I accept that my relationship with my grandchildren is not always what I wish it was. I accept that I have let myself get in this strange (for me) shape and size. In fact, it now seems that I almost forced myself to get to this condition, as if it would physically change what I was going through, would maybe disguise who I was. What better way to hide than with shape-changing fat? I accept that I cannot make decisions or changes for my adult children (ouch) and that they have to come to any conclusions and decisions and make any changes on their own steam (if they do at all). I must have made Grandma Nor's heart really hurt, way back when. I accept that my pattern is that I have intentions to take steps to accomplish things, big or small, and then usually go immediately into avoidance mode and don't get around to whatever ambition I had earlier. I accept that my subconcious seems to think that if I fight whatever 'is', then it might feel like I am taking action. So I am accepting these facets of my life. I am accepting that I am where I am because I put myself here. Victoria
ReplyDeleteI love you Victoria. I love your honesty, your ability to state things just as they are, and your abundant capacity to love others (just as they are). I love you for a million other thing at least. I love most of all that you are real.
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