Letting go – active or passive?
Nothing lasts forever…This can be either good or bad depending on your own perspective experiences and impressions you have.
For me, I know now that resisting the inevitable is a waste of my time. “Time to be honest, Brooke” – I hear myself say often.
With my eldest daughter, Ginger, starting SDSU this fall, and my middle daughter, Coco, transitioning to high school, my husband and I have decided to move and not renew our current lease we have now in View ridge. This will be our 4th move since 2020! Fortunately, we will not be moving far from we are now, and I will have plenty of space for my equipment and will continue to teach privates and classes once set up! We will be moving in mid-June and therefore, I will be taking the month of June off. Our “new home” is in Inverness!
Moving again, has me reflecting on how change and transition is a constant reality. We all know that resisting our ever-evolving situations and changing physical landscape will only delay our essential and necessary job of letting go. This letting go is non-stop, old patterns, habits, diet changes, friendships, relationships, homes, even ideas will and should change. Ideally the ability to let go will help us welcome the present moment to live with more vitality and ease.
In our movement practices we can practice letting go by first paying attention and noticing what we are feeling and asking ourselves if what we are doing ‘feels right.’ Once we build that awareness, we can hopefully discern what is ‘not working’ and/or not connecting well. That knowledge and mindfulness can help us learn and discover ‘new’ ways to readjust and realign ourselves to make it ‘feel right’ for us at that particular moment (every day is different). Therefore, in my opinion, letting go of the old to welcome the present is active and not passive.
I will be practicing letting go a lot more these next few months and I hope I can inspire this same idea of letting go of the old to let in with the NEW to you as well.
Here is to paying attention to let go OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
XOXO
Brooke
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