For the first time in many, many years I’ve been able to enjoy a New England Autumn. I love the beauty of the maple trees as their leaves change color and the special smell that’s in the chilly air. The sound of dried leaves rustling and crunching beneath my feet while walking through the woods is soothing and of course – there’s Apple Cider!
It’s hard to adequately describe the majestic beauty in this soul-quenching season of death. Yes, this is the death cycle on this part of the planet right now and yet, for me, it’s the most gorgeous time of year. Nature is reflecting to us the graceful art of letting go. She does this every year. And so I invite you to join along and discover the beauty of releasing, letting go and moving forward.
What have been your challenges and obstacles you faced this year? Write them down!
What are the uncomfortable feelings you’re carrying from past time experiences? Write them all down! Most often we move into each new year lugging the old garbage from the years before. Then we wonder why we keep experiencing the same old stuff! Do the trees try to hold on to all the leaves as they change color and drop to the ground? Of course not! The leaves drop away to make room for the new buds each Spring.
When you admit you have negative, uncomfortable feelings about different situations in your life, you have just allowed light to enter into the darkness. Where there is light there is permission for change.
Change can be scarey, especially when we don’t know where these transitions will take us. I’m working with a woman who is recently divorced after forty-plus years of marriage. She’s forced to sell her house and she has no idea where she will be living next. At 65 this is a real uncomfortable situation. Or is it?
She’s started facing the pain she’s been carrying. Instead of putting a smile on her face and telling people she’s just fine, she’s learning to admit she feels like crap, is hurt, angry and scared – yet chooses to smile in spite of her situation. See the difference?
After a few days of writing down all the painful emotions from different areas of her life she’s started to sleep better. She told me she doesn’t wake-up in the morning with a heavy feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach. She’s beginning to look at her situation as a new path in her life-journey. The other day she emailed me to say she’s started looking at potential places to live and is excited because she realizes she now has the freedom to re-create herself and her life. Where once she was stuck in death and apathy, she is now letting go and enjoying the beauty of this part of her life. She is empowered.
I encourage you to take time each day during this season of letting go to write down those feelings and situations you no longer want to experience. This is a purging exercise. Do this, and you are creating space within your subconscious mind to bring in the new experiences you want to attract into your life.
Ready – set – start now! You have until the Winter Solstice to clean out the painful past. Then we’ll start our Season of Mock-Ups!
Love, Light and Blessings to all!
I’m finally understanding… taking baby steps, but in the right direction. Great post!!