no decisions

"There are no decisions; there is only interaction with what is in front of you.  Decisions come because you have attachments, desires, and fears.  The only thing that will help you is to let go. If you let go of your stuff, there are no decisions--there is just life."  Michael Singer

When I let go of desires, attachments, and fears everything becomes more clear and the way to respond to what is right in front of me naturally reveals itself.

Recently I had a financial decision to make and although I had the money to deal with the situation, I was feeling anxious about spending the money thinking that I might need it in the future. When I let go of this anxiety/fear (by reminding myself that my needs are always being met), it became clear that I should proceed with the situation and spend the money.

Life is always showing us the way.  The question is, 'Are we paying attention to life or are we paying attention to our fears, attachments or desires?'

Praise This Day

Save your mentally manufactured tales of 
enlightenment-to-come for someone else's ears.
The price to enter this love
is your hope for a better future.

We are not a crowd of beggars here.
You and I have been down that long,
twisted road all the way to its end.

Here we do not ask God for favors
but instead celebrate the light in each other's eyes.
So if you are ready to stop denying yourself
your own beauty
you have come to the right place.
Wake up now and praise this day
when you realize that God's eyes
are the ones you are looking out of, and into.


Praise this day~
and with each breath you take
be filled with the golden arc of love
which announces the ending of
your argument with God.


Praise this day
simply because it exists 
and sit down now in the warm skin
of your own lap,
for you are home
and it is time to rest
in the merciful light
of your own eyes. ~ Adyashanti 2015

surrender to Life

Here is a synopsis of Michael Singer's surrender experiment:

"The flow of life had served as sandpaper that, to a great extent, freed me of myself.  Unable to unbind myself from the incessant pull of my psyche, in an act of sheer desperation, I had thrown myself into the arms of life.  From that point forward, all I did was my very best to serve what was put in front of me and let go of what it stirred up within me.  Joy and pain, success and failure, praise and blame- they all had pulled at what was so deeply rooted within me,  The more I let go, the freer I became.  It was not my responsibility to find what was binding me; that was life's job.  My responsibility was to willingly let go of whatever was brought up within me." (The Surrender Experiment, p. 252)

So much wisdom here.  No need to analyze nor dwell on our thoughts, reactions, feelings...just let them all go.  It really seems to come down to being very present to each moment and then letting it go in order to fully receive the next moment.  Life will always show us what we need to let go of in order to be completely free.

  

The Girl God

Michael Singer completely surrendered to what life was bringing to him and his life unfolded in amazing and beautiful ways.

In watching my own surrender process, I notice the tendency to close down and become constricted by attaching to negative thoughts either about myself or others.  It happens so quickly.  One little negative thought or worry leads me down a path of egoic misery. When I do so my energy centers (heart, third eye etc.) close down and I feel small. Usually this is a subtle process that I do not even know is occurring unless I am paying attention to it.  It is an entirely different state of being than when I am relaxed, open to love, and aligned with Spirit.

The Ho'Oponopono prayer always brings me back into alignment.  I say it for myself or the person who I am feeling closed off from:

I Love You
I am sorry (for what I did, or for all of the things that have happened to you that keep you from knowing the Truth of who you are)
Please forgive me
Thank you

If I say this prayer while being connected to my heart it always brings me back into alignment with Truth/Love/God.  It helps me to see when I am holding onto a sense of not being enough or not deserving of all of the good that Life has in store for me.  The trick is to catch the little negative thought and choose to let it go before I am too far down the path of misery and it becomes a bigger thought.

Hanging onto our thoughts (whether they be negative, positive or neutral) is often an attempt to fix or avoid problems.  Although it can seem scary to let go of relying on our minds to fix what is wrong in our lives, this can also be a very exciting process.

I find it helpful to think back to the times when I have let go and how well those experiences turned out.  There are beautiful experiences waiting for all of us.  Miracles are commonplace.  There is an abundance of all that we need just waiting for us, including our physical needs and comfort, boundless love and joy, health and vitality, peace...a life filled with beauty and wonder.  It is our attachment to the small, limited, personal self that keeps us closed off from what Life wants to give us.

 Let us take the leap in each and every moment by letting go of what our mind is telling us and instead focus on what life has put right in front of us and watch the miracles unfold.

The Girl God

What if our religion was each other
If our practice was our life
If prayer, our words
What if the temple was the Earth
If forests were our church
If holy water--the rivers, lakes, and ocean
What if meditation was our relationships
If the teacher was life
If wisdom was self-knowledge
If love was the center of our being.

-Ganga White