Lose yourself in the unfolding of today

The past couple of years have been topsy turvy, haywire, messy, through the looking glass and wheeeeeee.... down the rabbit hole! 🐇 I've changed homes 6 times and lived in 4 states. My "stuff" has been in storage for so long I don't even remember what I don't have. And I've created and canceled more plans than I care to recall as my family went through the craziest of undulations.

For a recovering control-aholic primarily occupied with orchestrating a life of security and stability that's a pretty big deal! I was dragged more or less kicking and complaining into the fires of purification... of deeeeeep release... until finally I threw up my hands. I was done. No more fighting and resisting! And somewhere along the way I realized that what I thought was control was really just an illusion.

Once the grievances had their moment in the sun... wow, then the came the wisdom:

𓆩♡𓆪 LOSE YOURSELF IN THE UNFOLDING OF TODAY 𓆩♡𓆪

Lay aside your plans and investment in the seriousness of your life. Live today as if your only guide is the tender laughter of the Universe.

There's so much freedom in this way of living, but it's bloody hard to see or believe until you've gone through something that forces your hand - maybe the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, a major illness... something that pushes us to relinquish our perceived power to finagle this world to be what we need it to be to feel good about ourselves.

Until then we think we are independent beings totally in control, yet feeling oddly out of control and at the mercy of the world and everyone in it. And everything happening "out there" makes us actually feel quite helpless because, as Ken Wapnick put it...

““This approach makes us absolutely helpless in this world, because even though we may have the illusion of being able to control some things, there is very little we can do to control everything in the world that affects us. ... If, on the other hand, we invert this and see that the cause is inside, it does not matter what happens outside, because now we are in control of what we feel: our reactions to external happenings.””

— Ken Wapnick

I'll say that again: It does not matter what happens outside! Your only real locus of control is in how you perceive and respond to the outer world.

Actually saying out loud that you'd be equally happy living in a brand new home or a double-wide, living in a lush forest or an arid wasteland, or being married to a prince or a pauper brings a peace beyond words into your life. Because you've released yourself from being at the mercy of what's going on "out there."

Lose yourself in the unfolding of everything.

Now you're creating from a place of light and love!