If you know me well, you’ll know that I’m a doer. I love generating ideas, executing them and finishing whatever I started.
It’s always been super challenging to put away a book and admit I did not like it. My natural tendency is to finish it even if I find it boring and uninspiring.
But as life flows, I notice that many things sort themselves out naturally and effortlessly. The longer I exist, the more I let nature and the universe sort things out. Sounds scary, right? Well, it certainly does for me at times!
For a long time, I thought the opposite of fear was courage and bravery. However, I realise now that this masculine approach does not resonate with me anymore.
In feminine, organic terms, the opposite of fear - is trust and surrender of control.
It’s this beautiful moment when we purposefully or accidentally let go of our grip.
So that life can slip away into the domain of the unknown flow.
And if I don’t tense but rather trust nature and the universe to do their thing, I often discover that everything is taken care of in due course and time anyway.
Just like with summer, I can’t usher the sun to arrive sooner in the Southern hemisphere; in the same way, I want to trust all other things in life to unfold and manifest without too much effort.
Since I learned how to connect to Universal Database, I used ‘active manifesting’ meditations to plug things into it. It was quite clever and worked many times, but it also led me to a few disappointments as not all things worked out for me the way I envisioned them.
Today, I am paring this method with detachment (Vairagya in Sanskrit). Because if we want to lead a harmonious and content life, effort (Abhyasa in Sanskrit) can’t exist without detachment. I still do my Manifesting Meditations when needed. However, today, while at it, I also focus on surrendering and letting go.
I trust, not thrust.
Ever since I learned how to hold back my ‘action-self’ and learned how to sit still and do less, I have seen things falling into place without me doing too much. People call and offer help, support, and things I needed or hoped to come across.
This, of course, does not mean that I can just sit around and do nothing. I work and serve my family and creation. But if I want or need something, I put it out and ask for help. But then I relax and pray for clarity, wisdom and awareness to not be attached to the outcomes of my efforts.
Today I taught a Rise and Shine class where I shared this meditation after a sweet and gentle flow. Sign up to my newsletter below and I will email it to you.