Bye-bye Now

Another #reverb10 post – today’s prompt is: What (or whom) did you let go of in 2010? Why?

I’ll answer the last question first: because it’s time.

As for the what (or whom) ….

Take a look at the tag cloud over to the right there. See the words Letting Go? The larger the word, the more times I’ve used the tag. If you click on it, you’ll get plenty of past posts about letting go. Four of them were written in 2010:

Movin’ On (Take 3) – Un-boxed and Settling In

How the Universe Conspires with us to Awaken

From Performance Anxiety to Co-Creative Bliss

Open Hands, Open Heart

What I noticed while reviewing these posts is that letting go can be a cyclical process.

• Realize something wants or needs to be let go
• Decide to let it go
• (possible detour of waffling about letting it go)
• Let go
• Notice the energy of it remains or has returned
• Let go at an even deeper level

Sometimes it feels like what I release has a bungee cord attached to it. I let go, it bounces back. I let go, it bounces back. Eventually the cord wears out and snaps. No more letting go, simply gone.

I suspect that the bungee cord is made up of spirit (energy), heart, mind, body or some combination of these aspects.

Something is lodged in my energy field and needs purifying.

Some emotion is churning in my heart and needs to be fully felt.

Something is spinning in my mind and needs fierce truth and stillness.

Something is lodged in my body and asks me to pay attention to what has yet to be digested by spirit, heart or mind.

Then, I wonder …….

Every time we exhale, we let go

Nothing stays the same

Change is inevitable

There is no holding on

So, if there is no holding on, why are we so preoccupied with letting go?

 

[ pause]

 

I could get all Rumi-like on you here, but I’m going to shift gears. Can’t help myself, being a Gemini and all. So take a breath and relax (oh, that’s about letting go too) and when you are ready, read on…

Sometimes you just have to get irreverent and drop the spiritual correctness and the sentimentality.

This one, by Jo Dee Messina, says it all. Get your moxie and your dancin’ shoes on. “Buh-bye now!”

 copyright (c) December 2010, Kathy J Loh, All Rights Reserved

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Cultivating Wonder

Day 4 #Reverb10 – How do you cultivate wonder?

It seems to me that wonder is a natural state of being.

Wonder comes when I am deeply present.

When I am in the past, my wonder becomes wandering. I get lost in what was. I am not with what is.

When I am in the future, my wonder becomes worrying and hoping. I get lost in what might be. I am not here.

I cultivate wonder by nurturing truth, integrity, beauty and presence.

Wonder is a garden. I weed.  I feed. It’s a labor of love. It’s a practice.

I pull the weeds of:

• Judgment (as much of me as of others)
• Fear (move toward anxiety)
• Ostrich behavior (changing don’t see: doesn’t exist to being with what is)
• Shadow projections (bring it on home)
• Blame (bring that one home too)
• Urgency (there is plenty of time – step into the flow of Divine timing)
• Dis-ease and dis-harmony (bring awareness to it)

I feed and receive truth, integrity, beauty and presence by:

• Opening my senses
• Sowing seeds of happiness
• Engaging with dogs, cats and wild creatures big and small.
• Communing with trees
• Receiving the gifts of flowers
• Getting up close and personal with the world through the camera’s macro and telescopic lenses

Pin-sized mushroom

• Cloud gazing
• Watching the sun rise and set

• Meditation and grounding daily, engaging soul, body mind spirit heart, and Divine Essence
• Remaining ever curious (Who is that person across from me, really? I look beyond my assumptions and I open to be with who he/she is.)
• Reading Rumi, Hafiz, David Whyte, Mary Oliver
• Cultivating magic and miracles
• Playing with messages from the Mystery
• Stargazing and contemplating infinity
• Watching the moon rise and set

Venus and the crescent moon

• Walking a path of Beauty
• Receiving Grace
• Living in the question
• Dawdling
• Singing the song that asks to be sung in the moment
• Falling into the silence that follows the song
• Listening to music, traversing the pathways of melodies and bathing in colorful harmonies

And you, dear reader, how do you cultivate wonder?

Copyright© Dec 2010, Kathy J Loh, All Rights Reserved

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