Monday, November 2, 2009

Detach to Life...Let Go and Let God..


Sought through prayer and meditation: what is this to us?


Simply a relationship builder I believe, prayer being the Spiritual talk used to get used to being in communication with God and meditation being Spiritual relaxation.


PRAYER: "Here I am Lord, please help me to do this step 11 and gain a real sense of Your presence in my life!"


MEDITATION (Scott's version): The effortless task of letting go and letting God, an art of being, NOT DOING anything. Effortlessness similar to the accepting of powerlessness in our first step is something so simple yet so difficult to fit into a world that talks only LIFESTYLE, DO, COLLECT, LOOK LIKE, CLING TO, CONTROL, WIN, POWER, WEALTH, HOW-TO, EDUCATE, INDOCTRINATE, ACT etc etc etc. Where does let go come in?
Well it all comes back to being in the moment; so how to get there when we are taught to do do do until we drop? BUSYISM is the real enemy, that never ending "getting-through-to-the-next-thing-sickness" that has us clinging to the two things we have absolutely no say about-yesterday (is gone) and tomorrow (unknown).
To de-program we must de-tach firstly by recognizing the fruitlessness of our behaviour. There is tremendous power in the simple seeing of this (changed my efforts dramatically anyway). So, a little rest from the madness, some spiritual emotional relief OK?
This is what I do. Non-judgementally I simply sit comfortably (preferably as not to fall asleep too easily) and breath easy,eyes closed with an easy attention to where I am bodily at the moment. Can I feel my feet against my socks , the hair on my neck, my jeans as they fold behind my knees, the shirt collar touching my neck, can I experience my fingers one one by one by just thinking about them. These easy-effort-directors bring me to the NOW. From here, I exist only, drawing myself back to the simple bodily recognition type exercises mentioned above, whenever I drift off into a thought and find myself dwelling. I do this type of meditation for about 20 min-30 min per day. Remember if you try this and find that the thoughts just keep coming, they are not destroying the efforts of your meditation! You are not trying to get to some wonderful place in your head, although at times the bliss happens EFFORTLESSLY. The movement-through, of all the thoughts is really positive, congestion is eliminated and realize it or not, we are better off for the time taken just to allow these thoughts to do their thing in us without us doing anything with them. There is no bad meditation in that sense! We are actually being present with, where we are, without effort-almost a miracle today.
So the NON-ACTION way to relaxing emotionally/spiritually requires some directing because we are programmed to never stop thinking. Learning to leave everything alone (true detachment) and BE a part of life's symphony is a task today. Detaching from people, places and things is an art that allows one to have, in the truest, most complete way, the very people, places and things we cling to. We cannot love what we cling to, we can only allow them to CONTROL us as we try to control them.
So freedom to love rests in "letting go" on every level. As the "attached-lifestyle" loses its grip and we pear out from our bondage (flaws, defects of character, attachments), there is room for God to come in and the meditation pays spiritual dividends.
The relief of seeing, becoming aware and letting go is wonderfully exhilarating. The unburdening process as God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves, is overwhelming to me and words don't work to describe the sense of it!




KEY-meditation happens as we let go


MEDITATION is effortless and needs only reminder-tools to redirect us as we stray


FREEDOM is, as we let go


LOVE is, as we let go




The whole subject reminds of what I have heard so many times at open AA Meetings (open to the public) as recovering alcoholics express how they can only keep the benefits of the program as they give them away. In other words, as we reach out in our woundedness to the hurting, we are rewarded with the very love and healing that we offer to the new member. We get to keep what scripture calls agape love-that which wants nothing in return, non-clinging unconditional love.
We learn in programs dealing with co-dependant issues, to detach with love from the person we would control (the person whose behaviour introduced us to recovery). a subject for future..




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