
Opening to Understanding
5/3/2010

We must be willing to dive deep and feel, really feel what is underneath. This is where you will be set free.
There
are times when we may find ourselves struggling or even fighting with
our thoughts and emotions. We may feel that something must be done in a
certain way or not at all, or there may be some other situation that
feels absolutely black and white. But life is not this way—it's the way
we are looking at our experiences that is causing the turmoil within
us. When we become aware that the struggle we are having is with
ourselves, we can turn our attention to the source in order to solve
the problem, but we must be being willing to look where we need to and
feel emotions that may make us uncomfortable at first. Then we can
choose to really open ourselves to understanding all the options we can
imagine. We are likely to discover that we are resisting something
based on a limited understanding, and we must then open ourselves to
willingness.
When we are willing to look at all the possibilities, we also become
willing to accept that there is room for more than we can imagine. We
can release ourselves from the grip we had on our emotions and stop
limiting ourselves. We may have been unwilling to experience feeling
loss, confusion, fear, or even joy for some reason or another, but when
we realize that our understanding was limited we allow space for the
universe to move in our lives.
Opening ourselves to willingness may feel like we are surrendering or
abandoning all that we believed. But at the same time it is an act of
power and courage because it is a conscious choice we make about how to
apply our personal will. Being willing is to be in a state of willing
something into creation. It is at once allowing ourselves to be while
also choosing to direct our energy in a focused way. It is being and
doing from a place of openness, where we can work with the universe
rather than resist it. It is an open hand rather than one that is
clenched into a fist. When we make a step toward willingness, we open
ourselves to truth, possibility, and the movement of the wise universe
in and through our lives.
Madisyn Taylor http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2010/25739.html
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