I am a list person. I love listing everything down and I even categorise and sub-categorise! When I was younger I used to want my whole life planned out in advance and spent hours imagining how I thought it should be. Very left brain, I know!
And yet deep down I am a very creative soul and dreamt of letting my heart make the decisions instead of my mind, to be free and go with the flow.
I used to rush into things with rational logic, letting my brain make the decisions, and getting caught up in the why’s, how’s, and when’s. Yet recently I have begun to learn a new practice: the art of letting go.
When we hold on to preconceived ideas of how things should be, and focus only on the end results, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. Things will never turn out exactly how we expect them to be – depending on our perception they may be worse or even better, but we cannot begin to fathom what will lead on from those experiences. You could even say that there are no bad experiences – just our reactions to them.
By learning to let go, we open up to endless possibilities and trust that everything is unfolding in exactly the way it is meant to. There is a bigger plan for us than we can comprehend, but as long as we are open, we can be ready for wherever the wave takes us :)
