Relaxing is Love
remembering that all the things
you’re looking forward to
will still be there,
and all the perceived burdens that wait for us in the imagined future
are somehow lighter
if we’ve rested.
Relaxing, Love remembers to look around at this moment.
You, Love, remember
that actually, you’re ok.
And urgency isn’t really that real.
And pleasure at being alive
Really, really is.
~~ Love you, Christina
I’m not hurrying to get things done before I die. I am relaxing into every moment of aliveness.
To gobble it up like a binge, cramming as much in as possible before it goes away, has meant living in a state of lack. Which means no matter how much I cram in, there’s always the sense of never enough. And that has inevitably translated into a sense that I myself am not enough.
Everyone I’ve ever talked to about this can relate to having had a feeling of “there’s not enough,” or “I’m not enough.” I think it’s part of the human experience and the illusion of separation. More and more science backs up the truth we can all feel on some level – that everything is connected and ultimately made of the same thing, and so ultimately everything is one life force expressing itself in many forms. But in our day-to-day human experience, we feel separate. And lacking. We feel that we have to get what we need from someone or something “out there.“ And we mistakenly identify with the idea of lack.
I’m waking up out of that virtual reality. That false identity. I’m the fish finally experiencing the unfathomably abundant water all around it. I’m the fish realizing it is a part of the vast ocean of unending, creative life force. There is enough. I am enough. I am the Enoughness, expressed. Everything is. You too.
Awake to this Infinite Fullness, I’m amazed to see how many of my actions were driven from this sense of lack. Now that I know there is enough, that I AM enough, I never have to cram food, rush to “get,” speed on the freeway, know the “right” answer, freak out over the exact wording, go against what feels right to me, pretend to be or feel something I’m not, try to manipulate myself or others, or attempt to control or convince anyone of anything, including myself.
Now that I know there is enough, I don’t have to do any of that anymore, because there is more than enough food, time, opportunity, safety, health, approval, money, love and belonging – right here where I am standing. Or swimming, floating, basking……… 😉 We are such cute little fishies! We are such a magnificent ocean.
I’m not hurrying to get things done before I die. I am relaxing into every moment of aliveness.
To gobble it up like a binge, cramming as much in as possible before it goes away, has meant living in a state of lack. Which means no matter how much I cram in, there’s always the sense of never enough. And that has inevitably translated into a sense that I myself am not enough.
Everyone I’ve ever talked to about this can relate to having had a feeling of “there’s not enough,” or “I’m not enough.” I think it’s part of the human experience and the illusion of separation. More and more science backs up the truth we can all feel on some level – that everything is connected and ultimately made of the same thing, and so ultimately everything is one life force expressing itself in many forms. But in our day-to-day human experience, we feel separate. And lacking. We feel that we have to get what we need from someone or something “out there.“ And we mistakenly identify with the idea of lack.
I’m waking up out of that virtual reality. That false identity. I’m the fish finally experiencing the unfathomably abundant water all around it. I’m the fish realizing it is a part of the vast ocean of unending, creative life force. There is enough. I am enough. I am the Enoughness, expressed. Everything is. You too.
Awake to this Infinite Fullness, I’m amazed to see how many of my actions were driven from this sense of lack. Now that I know there is enough, that I AM enough, I never have to cram food, rush to “get,” speed on the freeway, know the “right” answer, freak out over the exact wording, go against what feels right to me, pretend to be or feel something I’m not, try to manipulate myself or others, or attempt to control or convince anyone of anything, including myself.
Now that I know there is enough, I don’t have to do any of that anymore, because there is more than enough food, time, opportunity, safety, health, approval, money, love and belonging – right here where I am standing. Or swimming, floating, basking……… 😉 We are such cute little fishies! We are such a magnificent ocean.
I love the way that phrase feels. I love noticing how something feels and following that, rather than working hard to find “clever” words, actions, ways of doing. Relax into trust. Ahhhh the sensation of that in my body…
When I say the word relax, I feel myself let go a little bit. Almost like the word reminds me, “oh yeah. I was a little uptight, and I can actually sit back a bit. I can take a breath. I can soften the tension in my shoulders and back. I can shift into a more comfortable position. Oh yeah. I’ve come back to myself.” All that kinds of gently rolls through me when I hear the word relax, remind myself to relax.
This morning, the calmness of relaxing is in a soft energy around me. Peaceful. Nothing to do. Nothing that needs to get done. And I notice a curiosity about the feeling of relaxation. There is even a little voice, a little message that is floating around me that whispers, “Watch the relaxation, and see what it does.” It’s suggesting that I follow that feeling, be curious about it, and let the relaxed feeling flow how it wants to in my life. It’s telling me that there is a freedom, a potential that is opening up around this feeling of relaxation. Watch the relaxation and see what it does. Like being carried on a wise, wide river of wellbeing. Then watching IT find the powerful, easy paths in my life. My days. My precious, day-to-day, mundane, awe-invoking moments of aliveness. Relaxing into the trust of all that……..
