June 27, 2024

In an old journal recently, I came across this beautiful short suggestion or invitation. It isn’t dated and I also can’t tell if it’s something I took down in meditation or if it’s a thought I gleaned elsewhere. So I’m not sure whether to credit it to Wisdom as I know it, or to someone I heard or read.

It seems too good not to share though, and I’m sure you’ll find it as helpful as I do for dealing with all the residue rising in us and in the world right now.

“Let this year be the year in which you let everything you deem unworthy of your Enlightened mind – every thought of scarcity, every sense of unworthiness, every fear or trauma – let them all simply rise to awareness and transmute them through your own love of self and through your honesty. Accept what is there and don’t pretend to feel otherwise, for the wisest are always the humblest.

Take a deep breath into the body and let go of the old regret or fear, or the old bones you chew whenever they rise up in your mind. And as your exhaled breath is leaving your body, realize there is nothing worth holding onto any longer if it keeps your own peace and happiness at arm’s length.

Become fully committed – fully – to the experience of happiness. Do this in the same way you’ve been fully committed to the unhappiness and limitation, to the failures, fears and lack that have always filled your thoughts and continue to bedevil you to this day. Cease to dwell on them and commit to dwelling on the goodness that is all around. Having recognized honestly and humbly what is there, firmly reposition your mind from the one to the other.

When doing this, give Creator full permission to sweep that old basement clean, knowing this: there really is nothing down there worth defending, hiding or protecting. There really isn’t. Be honest about what is/was/has been. Then, let it go in your cleansing breath, giving permission for the purification to be that simple.

Repeat this whenever necessary and keep letting it be that simple, cleaning out all those old thoughts and feelings in the basement that your mind stores down there and keeps rummaging through. “

What a terrific invitation, excellent advice and a great metaphor for the housecleaning that’s going on because of the energetics of these times.

Here’s to a year of “spring cleaning” and the fresh lovely home we will each be at the end of it!
Big hugs,
~Mayet

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