Resisting and Accepting Your Truth

    What am I letting go of in the first place? If this title grabs you, you probably at some point realized you have a story or a drama of some attachment to a way of being thats been created from your life experience.
First of all do you want to let go of your story, or does it define you. Thats the first challenge, some people are so identified with the story that they have adapted a whole way of being just to support the story, including friends and support groups. What you appreciate, appreciates. If you make the story your priority it will become your priority. If you want to play the victim you will be the victim.
 We are surrounded by drama, we live in a world that supports drama, the media thrives on it, it has become the new normal. A 3 cm  blanket of snow becomes the snow storm of the season. Blah, Blah ,Blah

    So what have I just done? I created a, story about a story its what we do, and we often don’t even realize it.

     One of my first self help experiences led me to a teacher who took me a side and said. Are you going to hang onto that Woh is Me Story all your life or grow up and be the man that little boy inside is screaming to be.  That is exactly what I needed to hear and feel. The truth! It was probably the first time in my life that I realized who I was being. The truth always creates an emotional response, you either resist it or except it. The ego resists and the higher self accepts, and then you have a choice.

     How do you Let Go of your story? First you need to become aware of it. Open up and be real, vulnerable and alive to the truth. And then take action to change and shift your way of being. It takes a little bit of guts to step up and realize that Hey! I need to make a change here.  Resistance to change is what holds us back. There is a saying you don’t know what you don’t know, But once you start and take that first step into a new way of being. Life just opens up to support you.  Be bold and boldly go where you have never gone before, it makes life exciting!  Life is always in flux, embrace it, it takes but a choice to shift into a new way of being.

But once you start and take that first step into a new way of being. Life just opens up to support you.

   Surrendering to life does not mean being passive and lifeless, it means being aware of what you need to do and whats out of your control. Flowing with what life presents. That may sound a little woo wooo, but what it really means is being present to life in the present moment. You can’t live in the past, its already passed you by and the future isn’t even here yet, so how can you live there?

   Gratitude is an easy way to shift from being a victim to being a creator. Take the time to count your blessings and embrace what you have, this alone is transformative. Gratitude is the second mantra we teach in our meditation course. Gratitude shifts our beliefs about life from lack which is victim mode to appreciation which is creation mode. We are 100% responsible for how we perceive our life. We can always choose.

   It’s your experience of your experience that you need to notice. Did you know that emotions are the bodies reaction to your thinking, is that crazy or what?  Change your thinking change how you feel. Awareness starts the shift. By just noticing you begin to create a shift . 
  It’s your choice choose

        Its only scary if your scared.

Peace Shuka     I would love to here some feed back, questions or self enquiry reflections. 

I have Yoga classes around town and a meditation course coming up in April in the Dundas/Hamilton area click the link for more information.