I am hard at work putting together more insightful, fun, informative and provocative Writer Chat's with wonderful authors from around the globe. Today the writer chat is with . . .
Me!
Here's a word I've been thinking about a lot this week: Allow
I started the week with a wonderful Chakra Reading and block removal with the wonderful Rosemary Sneeringer, aka The Book Nurturer. It was a powerful process that brought much clarity to my writing process and simmering projects. But the word that most stuck with me was "allow."
Allow what? What do I mean by allow?
Allow abundance. Allow ideas. Allow inspiration. Allow all the wonderful things that are flowing toward me to come.
Can you relate to this? Do you ever put up walls or barricades or dams to ebb the flow of abundance that is flowing to you?
My experience with it is that I will go through periods where I'm "in the zone." It's like I'm riding the river and going with the current and everything is lining up and buzzing in the right way. It was during such a period that I won my trip to Ireland I had so desperately wanted (read about that bit of magic here). I've manifested other wonderful things while riding the current.
But then it happens - life throws you a curve ball. It always will. We should expect it. But we don't. We're in the stream, riding the ride of life, having fun and them WHAM! Shit happens. We're thrown off course, the waters are turbulent - hell we may even get thrown from the boat! We're in the roiling waters flailing our arms, kicking and screaming and trying to get back in the boat or at least make it to shore alive.
When the waters get rough that is the time we most need to allow but that is also the time it is most difficult to relax. Allow means letting go. Allow means forgetting our useless attempts to control. Allow. Let it Be.
The beautiful thing about my time with Rosemary was not that it told me anything I didn't already know - at least on some level - but that it reminded me in a powerful way that the missing component was the allow part. I need to get out of my own way. Do you relate to this?
Time to relax. Let it go. Allow.
In the words of McCartney & Lennon:
There will be an answer, let it be . . .Is there anything that you're not allowing? Are you riding the stream and enjoying the ride? Or are you paddling like mad against the current, fighting it every step of the way?
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