Letting Go

By on May 5, 2010 in Inspiration

I have spent the last few months travelling, initially in Thailand and Cambodia, followed by just under two months in the US. One of the things that struck me hard during my first few weeks in New York was that I had not fully grown out of my ‘childhood’ habit of hanging onto the past.

Its not like I was unfamiliar of this old habit of mine. Prior to heading off travelling, I had spent a couple of days getting rid of items that I no longer needed. This was something that I had put off for some time, with more exciting activities always distracting me from what I knew needed to be done. As I went through boxes of different sizes, I came across items like credit card bills from over 15 years ago, every single letter I must have ever received and copies of old school report cards. In speaking to a few friends about my de-cluttering efforts, it appeared I was not alone in holding onto stuff that was no longer needed – excuses ranged from, ‘I might need that one day’ to ‘it’s no big deal’ to ‘it’s just the way I am’ or ‘I get it from my mother’.

So it came as no huge surprise, when during my second week in the States, my old habit reminded me that I was still emotionally in Cambodia. For here I was constantly wishing I were back there, endlessly recounting to anyone who would listen about my adventures, checking my treasured pictures at every opportunity I could get. In my hanging on to ‘what was’, I found that I was not feeling settled and conscious that I was missing the fragrance of the present. During those first two weeks I tried a variety of techniques to help bring me into the moment – these included meditation, journaling, catching a range of shows on Broadway, long walks in Central Park – none of these had the desired effect.

I did get to a place when I finally felt fully present, fully in the moment. This came at the end of the third week. It simply happened. In fact, it happened on a day I had nothing planned and did very little. In that moment, I did smell the fragrance of the present and was reminded that sometimes all that is needed to ‘let go’ is an awareness of not being present and an intention to let go of what was. The rest simply happens naturally.

In coming to this understanding, I take heed from the simplicity of nature which can be observed in the changing Seasons – spring is now fully upon us and without effort or fanfare that will soon make way for summer. Without drama or second thought, summer then says goodbye and we say hello to autumn. And without tears or fear of letting go, the trees shed their remaining clothes and winter enters. And before we know it, spring is at the door again – at no point in the process, do any of the Seasons say ‘I am not ready’, there is simply a knowing that each will let go and this all just happens effortlessly.

May we all find the courage to let go of the past effortlessly.

 

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Letting Go

By on November 28, 2009 in Uncategorized

Darling Phoebe, who I thought would be my forever dog, left today for her new home.  I was her “permanent foster mom” for the owner, who breeds top quality Standard Poodles.  Unfortunately, she couldn’t go to the States with me, and so this morning, with cuddles, tears and a heavy heart, I had to let her go.  

 

It made me think about all the other times I have gone on what I call “Grand Spiritual Adventures.”   There was always a letting go.  I believe it is this way for all of us.  We make sacrifices – and we do it consciously or unconsciously.

 

When I first came to Canada in 2000, I had shipped my 1989 Mustang from Hawai’i.  I loved this car – - it had every bell and whistle you can imagine, and I looked really good in it.   But more than that – my husband had given me this car, which made it a treasure of the heart.

 

One night after class, Brad, a student who has taught me so much over the past 9 years, was walking me to my car, and we were talking about attachments.  Having just sold everything, left a successful church in Hawaii, along with my husband and family of choice – I said “I don’t have any attachments.”  Brad said “Really?” and I responded “Well, my car. I really like my car – it’s the last thing I have from Hawai’i.”   A few weeks later, when I returned from the Asilomar Conference  in California, I discovered that my car, which had been parked on the street in front of my apartment, had been slammed into by a drunk driver, and totaled.   

 

That’s when I learned that the root of the word ‘sacrifice’ is from the Latin meaning “to perform sacred functions.”   You see, I wailed and cried for a few days about the sacrifices I had made to come to Canada, as if Something Else was making me do them.   I was used to thinking of sacrifice as something awful – yet when I looked it up and discovered the words original meaning, I began to approach it with a sense of the sacred.  I realized letting go is an important spiritual practice. 

 

Will we be sad?  Of course.  Grief is natural and wants to be expressed.  It is like a cleansing – a removal of another layer of dust to reveal the Diamond Within. We sacrifice something we have been – to be more – something more magnificent.

 

Phoebe is going to a new family who has another Standard Poodle to play with and lots of acreage.  I am going home to the States, to a larger community and lots of possibilities.  The members and friends of Celebration Centre are stepping into a new Grand Spiritual Adventure themselves, collectively and individually.  And I declare it’s all going to be Good, very Good!

 

Blessings, Rev. Angelica

 

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

 

God is the only Presence.  God is Love and Love is the only Power.   We all live, move and have our being in Love.  We are living the One Life of The Divine.

 

Knowing this, I now declare that letting go is a sacred experience.  As we move through our Grand Spiritual Adventures, letting go so that we can be Revealed Truth in action, we know that only good is real.

 

We acknowledge our feelings, and allow Nature to nurture us through them, and then cleansed, we turn, with eager anticipation, to the New Path we have chosen.

 

As we let go, we let God fulfill our Souls Contract.  This Contract is about awakening more and more each day to our spiritual magnificence.  I declare that we claim it, feel it, and see it reflected in our world!  How wonderful it is!

 

I release these words into the Law of Mind with a grateful heart.  And so it is.

 

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Letting Go

By on August 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

Letting go

 

Starts out fine and then goes from here
Next thing you know it is over there
Many holes around and one finger in the dike
A few more to run after is this what you like
Stop and settle down and let the Spirit grow
The Spirit is in charge and must release the ego by letting go…

Dominic Colucci

Copyright ©2009  Dominic Colucci

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Being is present and accounted for in the Subjective reality that due to the fact physical exists so does Consciousness..no other way can deeply describe of the well being it is for therefore.....is....Zen and only Zen Give peace to yourself and you will see it also.....It takes alot of wind to blow out one candle
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7 Responses to Letting Go

  1. mydomainpvt August 2, 2009 at 9:21 am #

    dearest soulbro,

    simply adorable and true to the core.

    Wish you love, peace and happiness.

    Trisha

  2. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 9:26 am #

    Sweetest Flower of God's Garden…Thank you…it is like a mantra to me..enjoy…

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

  3. mydomainpvt August 2, 2009 at 9:30 am #

    dearest soulbro,

    I know and now it is becoming a mantra to me too.

    Wish you love, peace and happiness.

    Trisha

  4. beachgirl August 2, 2009 at 5:08 pm #

    Is three a crowd…? with blossoms of love and gratitude, may i hold your hands as well as we all let go…?

    Divinely radiant, eyes closed yet seeing, basking in the sunshine of grace and *aloha* ~~~

    ~*~ beachgirl ~*~

  5. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 5:28 pm #

    Beachgirl…3 is not a crowd when we are all connected..how can you throw away the Universe when it loves you that well as to be held by gravity…enjoy

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

  6. beachgirl August 2, 2009 at 5:50 pm #

    Soul*Bro… Today nothing is thrown away…

    I feel the universe loves us all so much that the inverse to gravity is happening … now …

    In presence heaven is uplifting this spirit on a cushion of light and grace …

    *aloha* dances on the waves as a glistening presence … changing each moment yet remaining the same all the while…

    ~*~ beachgirl ~*~

  7. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 5:56 pm #

    Beachgirl, I will send you a website I just received from a former intent person that talks about a Universe that loves you..ironically speaking I am watching as we speak..it has Dr.Gregg Braden on it…watch it when you get a chance..

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

Letting go!

By on October 20, 2008 in Balance, Meditation

The moment we are born life starts teaching us to let go. Ironically enough, we struggle at it till our last breath.We have to leave the warmth and security of our mom’s womb to take our first breath in the outer world and WE CRY. Trying to hold on to that comfort we want to be cuddled and pampered as small babies. When we are fed, our definition of warmth start shifting to food. A child crying otherwise can be sometimes appeased with feeding if there is no other discomfort or sickness. The food changes to attention and attention changes to nothing. From then on, we keep hankering for it in some way or the other. Cradle is given away when we learn to crawl and toys get replaced as we outgrow them. Once they were something like a musical phone and then they become more and more advanced before our playground moves from kindergarten to college where people and ambition, fame and recognition become our newly found ones. No wonder a teen had to skirmish too much to give up childhood to gain youth. Once that age, life teaches us a hell lot. The ups and downs, the pride and shame, the rise and fall. And love where breakups teach giving it up. Then arises a quest that asks to give up lust, obsessions, desires, artificiality and feverishness in order to get closer to something that makes more sense. But the hankering continues- first for recognition, then for attention, then for stability, then for love and lastly, for the truth. Even when we know and experience that life is a futile exercise, desires lurk each time we are out of touch with them. We think we grew up, we think there is a balance until something happens that shakes us the same way. For establishing a place, for grabbing some attention, we work and work, fool others and fool ourselves until one day we have to let go of our youth. All this time from a kindergarten kid to a highly paid professional of some repute we had conveniently forgotten that time was on the move and that no matter how hard we try we cannot hold on to it. Till the age of five to seven, letting go used to be only an issue for just that time point when it was required. We would cry, fight, shout or run away from the source of disagreement and change projects so many times in one day. Nothing persisted for more than a day. But after that somehow the interval called "holding on to something" expanded and expanded. Because all the disagreements were sent to the subconscious mind so that we could be agreeable in the small niche that time had offered in a particular competitive situation then. We leave our home, our city or country to look for a life- a job and a family. One day family members independently look for their own ways and they too leave. Friends, near and dear ones part, sometimes within the boundaries of earth and sometimes beyond that. But we still have our first trophy from college reminding us of our academic victory then, a picture or an email from our first boyfriend or girlfriend. They merely symbolize "holding on to" that is already present surreptitiously in the unknown area called "mind". And then suddenly one day age starts imposing its restrictions. In all that mad race when we notice that each day and each night teaches us to let go, each season, especially the fall, asks us to let go and even shows that nothing lasts but everything gets renewed and that renewal was inevitable, it never forms a lasting impression on us. Something in us keep forgetting that a change is due and we build our dreams and notions, preferences and reservations as if we are immortals. And then one day whether you like it or not you have to give up this body and all your worldly possessions. Some saints in India put ashes on their foreheads as it reminds them everyday that they are going to turn into it in no time. One of the most interesting and important thing that gives relief to people like me and might also give anxiety to some others is the unpredictability of it. A bad habit is very difficult to let go of and so is a good habit at the other end of the spectrum. Why is it very difficult to submerge in meditation? Simply because the ego refuses to go! It has been said with reference to reincarnation that the lasting impressions in the mind at the time of death decide the nature of the next birth. What if the mind were devoid of any impression at that time? Probably then we could choose to be or not to be. I wonder when there was no control or memory of why we were born and when there would be no control on how, where and when we would die, what would holding on to anything in between serve for. Is it not important to get into the habit of doing something, get done, detach, do the next, the next and get renewed with each fleeting second? Would it not be a good practice for letting go?

 

 

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2 Responses to Letting go!

  1. mydomainpvt August 2, 2009 at 9:21 am #

    dearest soulbro,

    simply adorable and true to the core.

    Wish you love, peace and happiness.

    Trisha

  2. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 9:26 am #

    Sweetest Flower of God's Garden…Thank you…it is like a mantra to me..enjoy…

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

  3. mydomainpvt August 2, 2009 at 9:30 am #

    dearest soulbro,

    I know and now it is becoming a mantra to me too.

    Wish you love, peace and happiness.

    Trisha

  4. beachgirl August 2, 2009 at 5:08 pm #

    Is three a crowd…? with blossoms of love and gratitude, may i hold your hands as well as we all let go…?

    Divinely radiant, eyes closed yet seeing, basking in the sunshine of grace and *aloha* ~~~

    ~*~ beachgirl ~*~

  5. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 5:28 pm #

    Beachgirl…3 is not a crowd when we are all connected..how can you throw away the Universe when it loves you that well as to be held by gravity…enjoy

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

  6. beachgirl August 2, 2009 at 5:50 pm #

    Soul*Bro… Today nothing is thrown away…

    I feel the universe loves us all so much that the inverse to gravity is happening … now …

    In presence heaven is uplifting this spirit on a cushion of light and grace …

    *aloha* dances on the waves as a glistening presence … changing each moment yet remaining the same all the while…

    ~*~ beachgirl ~*~

  7. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 5:56 pm #

    Beachgirl, I will send you a website I just received from a former intent person that talks about a Universe that loves you..ironically speaking I am watching as we speak..it has Dr.Gregg Braden on it…watch it when you get a chance..

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

Letting Go

By on July 15, 2008 in Inspiration

Ever read Richard Bach? One of my favorite authors. He is one of those people that ‘got it’ way before most even knew what ‘getting it’ was. ;) Was just surfing the net and came across this gem. Wanted to share:

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Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.

The current of the river swept silently over them all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.

Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks at the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.

But one creature said at last, ‘I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.’

The other creatures laughed and said, ‘Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you shall die quicker than boredom!’

But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.

Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.

And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, ‘See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!’

And the one carried in the current said, ‘I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.’

But they cried the more, ‘Saviour!’ all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour.
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How profound is this? Especially after reading and listening to Abraham for so long- I can appreciate this little story even more. Abraham teaches there is only a stream of well-being that flows. No source of darkness or evil, only a source of light- and what determines whether or not our lives are blissfull or less than desirable is whether we are resisting or allowing that stream to flow.

I was listening to the CD that came in the back of Ester, Jerry, and Abraham’s latest, “The Astonishing Power of Emotions”- and they described how even before we came into our physical bodies, that stream was already flowing. That stream of well-being is so dominant, that anything we do in this one lifetime that could be considered detrimental really is not that bad at all– all it is is a temporary resistance of the stream- and the moment we let go- we see improvement in our lives (and we feel a lot of relief- that goes hand in hand).

Abraham also uses ‘upstream and downstream’ analogies- saying our emotional response is given to us in response to our thoughts on any given subject. They say our first priority should be finding relief and feeling good- as that is an indicator we are going with this stream of well-being, while any form of negative emotion is our indication that we are resisting the stream. They also note that everything we want is downstream- while nothing we want is ever upstream.

Beautiful stuff. :)

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2 Responses to Letting Go

  1. mydomainpvt August 2, 2009 at 9:21 am #

    dearest soulbro,

    simply adorable and true to the core.

    Wish you love, peace and happiness.

    Trisha

  2. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 9:26 am #

    Sweetest Flower of God's Garden…Thank you…it is like a mantra to me..enjoy…

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

  3. mydomainpvt August 2, 2009 at 9:30 am #

    dearest soulbro,

    I know and now it is becoming a mantra to me too.

    Wish you love, peace and happiness.

    Trisha

  4. beachgirl August 2, 2009 at 5:08 pm #

    Is three a crowd…? with blossoms of love and gratitude, may i hold your hands as well as we all let go…?

    Divinely radiant, eyes closed yet seeing, basking in the sunshine of grace and *aloha* ~~~

    ~*~ beachgirl ~*~

  5. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 5:28 pm #

    Beachgirl…3 is not a crowd when we are all connected..how can you throw away the Universe when it loves you that well as to be held by gravity…enjoy

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

  6. beachgirl August 2, 2009 at 5:50 pm #

    Soul*Bro… Today nothing is thrown away…

    I feel the universe loves us all so much that the inverse to gravity is happening … now …

    In presence heaven is uplifting this spirit on a cushion of light and grace …

    *aloha* dances on the waves as a glistening presence … changing each moment yet remaining the same all the while…

    ~*~ beachgirl ~*~

  7. DOMINIC August 2, 2009 at 5:56 pm #

    Beachgirl, I will send you a website I just received from a former intent person that talks about a Universe that loves you..ironically speaking I am watching as we speak..it has Dr.Gregg Braden on it…watch it when you get a chance..

    May you live in peace and harmony surround you always(+)

    Dom*

On Letting Go

By on May 29, 2008 in Love & Sex, Relationships

It is important in break-ups to notice what part of you or your dreams you lost with the loss of the relationship. When a relationship changes or ends, it often brings up all our unfinished grieving about other losses. Who were you in a relationship that you don

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