The Art of Allowing – by Leslie Smith

Depending on how you look at life, at one time or another you have encountered a problem of some sort. Sometimes these problems seem small, and sometimes these problems seem huge. It really all depends on your own perception of things.

An issue arises. The issue could have been simple, but we chose to delve deeper. Note that I said we chose to delve deeper. We chose to pick it apart, we chose to scrutinize it, we chose to judge it, and then what happened? We made a mountain out of a mole hill. Some problems actually get to be really hairy BECAUSE we've thought about them too much; we've made them materialize into something real.

We don't have to get stuck in these problems. We don't have to always trudge uphill through them; we don't have to sink into them as if we're suddenly standing in quick sand. We can allow ourselves to LEAP over them.

I've had what you could call ‘rough times' in areas of my life, in the past. Note that I said, in the past. The thing about the past is that it's all gone now, it's all over. The past will absolutely not repeat itself because I have learned my lessons from there. If I didn't learn the lessons I was supposed to learn, then I'm sure the past would creep back in. But I've moved on. I can look and say, ‘hey, I made it past that'. And so, whenever a problem seemingly tries to arise in my day to day life, I say, "wait a minute, this doesn't have to be a problem...after all, I've gotten past all the others. I can just LEAP over this one because after a while, it won't be there anymore." I can just allow whatever the perceived problem is to be and to flow in and right back out. However, if I resist against this flow, if I push back, if I fight it, the perceived problem/issue will stay there, stuck in an endless loop.

Try to be in the flow, and allow it to be there. Be in it, feel it as it moves through and on out.

The act of allowing is an art. We have set ourselves up to struggle against things that come into our life, but that can all be changed now.

To practice the art of allowing is an act of creatorship.

Blessings,
Leslie


Copyright 2008 Leslie D Smith All Rights Reserved



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