I was reading a newsletter from Terry Hershey and he had posed this thought: "It's not just about what I let go of, but what I choose to replace it with."
I wondered:
When we let go...why do we feel like we need to replace the space with something else? Can't we just let the space be...space?
Why do we have to fill all the spaces in our lives with things to do and more stuff? What makes us so uncomfortable with space? What is the fear that many of us have of space?
It is the pauses of life that bring beauty. In yoga, we do the movements so at the end, the last resting pose, savasana, (my favorite pose by the way) we save space for the integration of the movements. In music, the resting notes give space to the sounding notes. In childbirth, there is a period of rest between contractions and we take vacations from our jobs. All of this resting and pausing is space that does not need to be filled...this space has a purpose. IT JUST NEEDS TO BE SPACE!
It's in having space that we can pause, reflect and expand. It's in having space that we find time to discover who we were created to be. Ahhhhh, there's the culprit....space to be with ourselves!
This was true for me anyway. As long as I was busy doing, going...filling all the spare seconds in my life, I was safe from ME!
It is in the space that old voices of judgment appear and the not good enough's emerge, which by the way is the gift of space. It's in the space that these feelings can surface, they can be felt and released, thus...freedom and more space:)
The next time that you are able to let go...try seeing if you can leave the space empty. Rest in it, feel it and just let it be...space!
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