I found this piece I wrote almost 20 years ago in my files...the message is still so helpful!
I was talking with a friend the other day who was visibly stressed and feeling a bit at the end of her rope. “I have too much to do today,” she said as tearfully, “I know I can’t get it all done.” As I furtively slid her caffeinated beverage a bit out of her reach, I could only sympathize with her, having felt very much like that myself. I thought of my own morning. Ten minutes before getting my eight-year-old out the door, he announced that he just remembered that he was supposed to make a boat for school, and it was due this morning. Not only that, it had to float…not only that, it was NOT just for fun, it was an actual assignment!” (I wasn’t quite sure what a non-actual assignment was in second grade, but his hysteria and a ticking clock didn’t allow me the time to ask). We donned a spoon, a bar of soap, and I frantically scrapped a well in the soap bar as my son frantically colored cross bones on a pirate flag. With super glue in hand, the cross bones became a mast, which was attached by toothpick atop the bar of soap. Three minutes and counting, we attached the rudder by way of another toothpick to the back of the soap. Voila, I thought, and looked at him for a high five. I was met by a look of slight disappointment. “What?” I asked. He shrugged, “I mean, the rudder doesn’t spin.” I took a deep breath “Daniel…” I started to say, “No, it’s fine, ” he interrupted, realizing I was about to launch into a diatribe about his history of forgetting about class assignments thus far in his very young life. He jumped off the chair and headed into the laundry room with a minute and a half to spare to throw on his snow gear, find his lost mitten (which lay on the floor of the garage, not having made it inside from the previous day),and race out the door to the bus. All that was left was for me to run and wave my arms like a mad woman behind him, screaming for the bus to “PLEEEEZE wait!” As the bus stopped, doors opened, disappearing my son, I stood there breathlessly, realizing I’d already broken a sweat and it wasn’t even 7:30 am. My day was officially off to a start! (And, just for the record, my second-grader was no worse for wear…this was par the course!) This, in some shape or form, is typical for many of us. We don’t know what is headed our way until it slams into us. Throw on top of all that the day-to-day things that are needed just to keep a family, a life, and for many of us, also a job, afloat. We juggle Suzi’s volleyball tryouts, put together power point presentation on the efficacy of a new business model, get three children to the dentist, plan the PTO teacher appreciation dinner, and do nutritional meal planning for the family, just to name a few (Okay, so sometimes it’s not always even close to a nutritional meal but more like a McDonalds' drive thru!) What if the madness could just stop? Or at the very least, become more manageable. What if we were the culprits of the added stress because we had false expectations of ourselves? My tearful friend went on to say to me that she felt so overwhelmed by what she had on her plate, that often she found herself in a place where she couldn’t get anything done. She felt, as she said “paralyzed.” I believe that many of us struggle with this because, quite frankly, a list that has an unrealistic set of goals just provides a breeding ground for us to feel like we’re failing. We are not inspired by greatness; we may not even be inspired to get out of bed. The good news…The Universe can help! Interestingly, a while back, I was listening to an Abraham Hicks presentation. Abraham is a guide who is channeled through Esther Hicks, with the help of Jerry Hicks. In this session that I was listening to, Abraham was relaying how Esther had experienced much of the stresses of not getting everything done, as so many of us do. As she sat in a coffee shop at breakfast, Abraham suggested to her that she take the paper placemat in front of her and fold it in half. On the left side of the mat, she was instructed to write her name at the top. On the right side of the mat, she was instructed to write the word “Universe” at the top. She was then told to list only the items on the left side that truly had to be done by her, that day. Everything else was to be listed on the right side of the mat. These were things that either she would ask that the Universe to help her with, or they were simply things that she would target as goals to be done by her another day. Esther did just that. As she states, the interesting thing is that the Universe really did begin taking care of much of the business on the right side of the mat. Once she let go and let “God” or Higher Spirit, take over, much of the things that she felt responsible for simply took care of themselves, or no longer needed to be done. Each day she would redo her list and re-write on her own “left” side the items that she intended to get done in that 24-hour time span. She reported that her stress level subsided substantially and that she was able to get so much more done than she ever had, feeling good and accomplished. She was no longer stressed out by the fact that she couldn’t do it all, because her “to-do” list was getting done. She took care of what was needed, and she then had more time for herself, allowing herself the time that had, miraculously, become free. In today’s world, who wouldn’t want that? Allowing for the Universe does not require anything from us other than letting go and being clear of our intention to receive assistance. We do not need to know how the Universe does its job; we just need to trust that it can. When we trust in the fact that we are each a part of this much greater whole, we can let go holding all of the weight on our shoulders. We can literally lighten up. We can be in the moment, living the experiences of the here and now because the “what if’s” of tomorrow just don’t exist in today. To be present is truly a gift and there is beauty in each moment. When we are aligned with the Spirit, our lives move in ease, and we appreciate All that Is because we are in the flow. Our being is enough. We learn to stop holding ourselves against unrealistic expectations about what we must do for everyone else, and we instead trust that we are doing exactly what we should be, right here and right now. We ask the Universe to support us in all of our efforts, and we laugh at ourselves when we question and think, ‘How is that going to happen?” We step out of ego and back into Spirit and we remind ourselves that we don’t need to know the “how’s” of the how it all works…we just need to have faith of a master plan and remember that we are each a part of that. I invite you to give it a try. Miraculously, you might just find that everything that needs to fall into place simply does; your boat, just like my son’s, effortlessly stays afloat. The only thing missing is the stress.
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AuthorKristyn Baker, CECP, is an intuitive energy healer and writer. Her forty years of working with energy medicine has evolved as she has expanded her own healing abilities and understandings. Combining her abilities as an Emotion Code practitioner and Simpson Protocol practioner with her intuitive insights and channeling, opens opportunities to heal and to release what no longer serves. . Archives
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