In Order to Get Anything, I Have to Release Everything
Often times we believe that in order to get what we want, we must struggle and fight our way to it.
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.” — Matsuo Basho
Since becoming a writer on Medium less than a month ago, I have been racked with worry. I care so much. I care about every word I type. I care about how I will impact others. I care that I will run out of things to say. My brain comes up with things to worry about.
These worries create thoughts and emotions inside of me that do not feel natural. My higher self is telling me that in order to continue doing my best work, to remain inspired, authentic and honest — which are the most important things to me — I must release my desire for control.
How many times have you convinced yourself that you must control something in order to get what you want?
We have a narrative in our society that tells us that we must do x, y and z in order to achieve an outcome we desire.
This creates an attachment to the desire, which can get in the way of the truest expression of Source energy, the powerful, intangible, all-knowing intelligence that is all around us. The interconnectedness of all.
Let me be clear: it is good to know what you want and to ask the universe for it. There is nothing wrong with that. This is one of the most powerful things you can do. At times, it is very appropriate and effective. However, it is also important to remember to tune in frequently and feel the energies in you and all around you.
What needs to be communicated? What needs to be understood?
I want to write every day and I’ve worried that my well of inspiration and ideas will dry. These worries are an illusion. I know that as long as I am connected to myself, to the Source energy that powers us all, my creativity will never cease to come through. It simply comes down to a matter of asking every day,
What wants to come through? What wants to be expressed through me? What would you have me say? What would like to use me as a vehicle to connect with others?
Then I release control and write.
The message in this post that you are reading is what wanted to come through today.
I don’t need to know the reason why. I just need to write it.
Sometimes the right outcome will not be what we are attached to or what we want, but it will be for the greatest good for all.
There are so many illusions we have bought into. The illusion of control. The illusion of “getting there” and finally being happy. The illusion of “making it.”
Often times we believe that in order to get what we want, we must struggle and fight our way to it. I have given into this thought many times and most days, I still catch myself doing it.
I think that if I want something, I have to fight for it, right? I have to do certain things to obtain it.
Obtaining anything is an illusion. Nothing is really ours.
I am being told that in order to get anything, I have to release everything. I have to release resistance. I have to release attachment. I have to breathe in and release my illusion of control.
I am not here to control. Neither are you.
“You don’t have to think about how you work your thyroid gland, or whatever else it is that is in your organism. You don’t have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing and that you’re doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.” — Alan Watts
When you think about it, you are existing without any effort at all.
You do not have to tell your lungs to breathe. Your heart to beat. Your brain to think.
So much of what we have been given is already working for us.
Clear the path. Tell the universe what you want and release control. Work towards your goals and do what you are being called to do and do not worry about the rest.
Things are already in motion for you.
You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. — Alan Watts
