let go of what ?
I’ve had complaints, people who have read the latest tab (along the top of this site – where the ‘meat’ of the blog lives) titled ‘a key to health’ get to the end & it’s some zen type statement ‘let go’. Of what ? has been the question. Well…. I guess the drift was… whatever you’re holding on to. Stress related illness – that’s what we all do these days isn’t it? But what is stress ? I always say ‘I don’t do heads’ just down to earth symptoms of pain, etc. but so much illness comes from our inability to square what’s actually happening to us, with what we’d like to be happening. There’s the rub. Fact is, our past conditions our response at the present moment. And maybe more importantly our expectations of the future conditions our present response to people and situations – will this person or situation help me in where I’ve planned on going next etc etc. How to miss your life in one easy lesson. But it’s definitely true: the past no longer exists except as some synaptic connections in your brain, the future never exists – there’s only some expectation drawing you away from the present moment; which is all you have - the present moment. This is where we live our lives because it’s the only thing that’s real. Could we but grasp that delightful truth. A beautiful book on this subject ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle.
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