Today I want to talk to you about ‘elephants’ and share with you my personal story.
This morning I woke up at 3am with the concern on my mind that I was unable to ‘release’. I knew, there was no point to dwell on it, since there wasn’t anything I can do about it, yet, I continued to worry.
We are told over and over to let go of the thoughts that frustrate us, scare us or cause us pain, but just because we understand the logical action is to let go, it doesn’t make the practice of letting go easy. Its like being told not to think of an elephant. So perhaps rather than trying not think about pushing the elephant out of the room, we can welcome it in say hello. We can tell it, I see you, but Im just not that interested in being taken for a ride right now.
When we stop resisting and trying to fight our concerns and fears, the battle stops and then from there, once we stop wrestling with our thoughts, once we stop being swept away by them, or pushing them away, its much easier shifting our attention from persistant elephant back to the present moment where truly all is well.
Sometimes its still difficult and it takes a strong detrmination. Whenever we are caught up with the concerns about the past or a future, we are not in the present. When we are fully here and now, thats where our thoughts have an opportunity to soften.
Eventually I did just that and with the mind of presence, I drifted off to sleep.
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