APLACE4US

Change is a given. We have cycles and seasons. We can resist these natural occurrences, but that will not stop them from occurring. Saying such things and even reading them, however, doesn’t always help us in the process of recognizing and letting go of resistance and being open to change.

Law of Attraction and Abraham say, “What we resist, persists.” Abraham and Esther and Jerry Hicks have all sorts of techniques and tools for changing our perceptions, point of view, and thoughts.

But sometimes all it takes to move past resistance is to take a different view and thus, a different path. Think of this old song… The Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond or listen here…

Some folks call it taking the path of least resistance… the road not taken. One teacher told me, “When it doesn’t feel good or if it feels really bad, make another choice. Go in a different direction–with your thoughts, your point of view, or literally.” But you can walk; you don’t have to run.

The first time I tried to meditate as a young person, I felt everything relax and followed this feeling of relaxing and letting go till I arrived at the top of my head. Suddenly, I had this thought that was something like, “if I let this piece go, I will die.” I abruptly jumped out of the relaxation place and stopped the whole process.

This experience scared me so much that I did not meditate again for a long time–knowingly. Unknowingly, I was meditating every day by creating art, and by a single-minded focus on writing–a story, book, article or blog–in which everything else fell away.

Later, as I studied movement meditation, I began to understand awareness and mindfulness. I learned about these as I read works by Krishnamurti, Eknath Eswaran, and others.

Today, I had an experience exactly like the one that scared me. However, it was different in one way. This time I was not scared. I had a different outlook. I was also older and have talked to a lot of people. When I was a child, I had no one that I felt I could talk to about what I was doing because no one I knew practiced meditation.

Today, I worked with a meditation to heal childhood anger from a book by Deepak Chopra. As I looked at how anger had played a part in my life, I came to the part of the meditation that suggested that I play back the video of my life until it went black. This was a time before there was fear, anger, worry… It was actually possible to go there. It would be a time when everything was bliss and when there were no boundaries between myself and my surroundings.

As I opened to the experience, I felt myself relaxing and letting go. I recognized the meditation attempt in my youth, and how I had once perceived it. What came next astounded me within the peacefulness I felt.

The experience of oneness with my surroundings simply meant I didn’t hold onto myself–anywhere–and I didn’t hold on to my perception of anything or anyone.

What that feels like is being your energy field, being the field.

Everything you see is there, surrounding you. However, you are not “attached” to it because you are not holding on to anything in you or anything that “appears” to be outside of you.

You are free and your surroundings are free, and in that openness, allowing and letting go, you are one. Harmony. One verse. Universe.

“Oh! ye’ll take the high road and
I’ll take the low road,”
and we’ll all get there together…