Letting
Go
“I
was driving to an appointment one morning when the seeming enormity
of this problem overwhelmed me. I pulled to the side of the road,
stopped the car, and turned off the engine. I threw up my hands and
yelled to whoever was 'out there' that might be paying attention,
'Okay, I give up! I need some clarity and some relief on this one.
Help!'”
Elaine
St. James (Inner Simplicity)
Elaine
St. James recalls this incident under the title, “Ask for help from
the universe.” In the story, she says that she noticed feeling
better a short time later, and began to come to an understanding
about the problem that she hadn't had before. She thought of her
words not so much as a prayer to God, but as a plea to the wisdom of
the universe. Whatever the source of the help, she began to
experience change right away.
I
think the most important part of her experience can be found in the
words, “I give up.” We can, and probably should, wrestle with
things a bit. I think we have to try to solve our problems using our
own wits, but when we try and try and do not see results, or if the
problem doesn't really belong to us, but still is impacting us in a
negative way, that is the time to give up, and ask for help. Whatever
you believe about God, or the universe, or anything else, there is an
energy available to us that we can access by asking. Not just asking
in an off-hand way, but truly giving up the struggle and asking from
our hearts, “Please, help me with this.”
Some
people believe that we have guardian angels who are standing by to
help us whenever we ask them to. Sometimes, help comes to us even
when we don't ask; something shelters us from harm, or turns our hand
at the last minute. I don't know whether we have angels or not, though I'd like to think we do.
Perhaps what we have is an inner monitor that acts more instinctively
than our thinking brain is able to do. Sometimes, I give credit to
intuition, which goes ahead of us and sends back clues about the
situation we're about to enter. Whatever it is, I believe as St.
James says, we can access that help and protection by asking for it,
and the more we call upon this help, the more we will feel its
presence with us.
If
you are wrestling with a problem, or if there is something that you
truly want and are not seeing in your life, I encourage you to ask
for help. Ask, remembering that, “I give up!” is an important
part of letting go and getting out of the way.
In
the spirit,
Jane
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