LIFE IS HERE FOR ME

What do we do when life is seemingly not going our way?  

Over the past few months, a theme that has been coming up for myself, as well as my clients, is trusting that life is here for me, rather than against me.  

There is often a want to control life, to wrangle it to be the way we would like it to be, to resist rather than flow with what is.  It could even be a feeling that life is against us, or that we're responsible for events out of our control. 

Yet the reality is we don't always have control of our external circumstances, however, we do have possibility in how we roll with life's events, and in how we respond.  

How could what is happening in your life be there for you?  

Perhaps it's giving you a shift in perspective, a lesson, moving you out of a situation that is not for your highest good into one that is, even if you're not aware of that at the time.  

Life and perspective are usually different in hindsight.  When I reflect on my most difficult moments, I can see that they have been my greatest gifts. 

I have been using the process of mentally offering it up, to surrender the problem, the worry, the rumination over to something higher than myself.

This doesn’t mean you don’t take any action, however, it’s a state of allowing, to not needing to have it all figured out and trusting that life is here for you.

Can you bring in a little more trust and surrender this month.  To let go of always having to know, to have it figured out, to move out of control, to move more into a state of allowance and ease.  

A little more presence. 

Give it a go, and see the difference it can make.

Here is a poem by Jane O’Shea that you may enjoy.

Life Already Knows What It’s Doing

Life is supposed to be a mystery

not a foregone conclusion

You pay your dues for the experience

Not for the set of plans

It’s not an endurance test, a race, a destination

or even an exam where you have to get it right

It is a strange and mystifying adventure

A sacred journey

Life is a pilgrimage

to find the way to your sacred heart

To find the site of your most holy places

And to know the divine and the ordinary

in each and every movement of life

as it tumbles past your door

Life has its own way

to crack open your heart

And allow joy and love

to seep right through to the heart

that hides behind your heart

Give up the struggle

for life already knows what it is doing

Let your heart and soul spill out

into a wild and surrendered existence.