Before I left for a volunteer trip with my daughter to the Dominican Republic, I engaged in a conversation with a former student serving in the Peace corps in the northern corner of Peru.
When we were discussing how life was unfolding incredibly for him, he pointed me to The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer who ultimately created a 600 acre spiritual community, a cutting edge software company for the medical industry and a billion dollar empire…all because he decided to live by himself in the woods, let go of himself and the negative voices running laps in his head and let flow what he deemed, as in nature, the universe meant to provide. Trees don’t determine to steer where they grow. They bloom where they are planted, or where their seedlings landed and when the natural conditions provided the right environment.
He would meditate for hours a day, from early early early am. Only taught a class and lived on $5000 a year (granted that was what 40 years ago…but still). Little by little he responded to what life presented him, never seeking, only receiving. He stayed neutral chasing out the entanglement of thinking we all tend to do as we weave our way in this human existence, this culture.
I kept reading how he would chase the “voices” out of his head and in my words…spectated what was approaching and flowing in for him to receive.
My words…less mental interruption clogging the spiritual inside and freeing our mind, the more room to receive from the universe.
Now I can’t find the comfort zone, for myself, to move into the middle of the woods all by my female self. But I am terrifically attracted to the calm, to the chasing out the voices…or I think lightly sweeping them or letting them disappear in my mind…leaving an open calm space of existence in my thoughts
I call it: Let it go. Let it be. Don’t think about it. Don’t figure it out. Don’t do anything. Stay still. And decide with the first response your spirit sends. Let it go. Let it be.
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