Life will work for me when I realize that goodness and mercy DO follow me! Wrap a rubber band around your finger. Notice how dark your finger becomes. If you leave the rubber band on long enough, you will also notice that the neighboring finger will begin to get dark. Eventually, your entire hand will be affected. The pain you experience in the rubber-banded finger demonstrates what happens in your life when you become tense or uptight about something or someone. Sooner or later, your entire life will be affected. There is no way you can be angry at one person without having that anger filter into every other relationship in your life. When you become tense, anxious, worried about one thing, everything in your life will become dark, stiff and painful. Worry, fear and desperation about the thing you are uptight about will not help matters; instead, what you feel, what you tell yourself, will charge the atmosphere of your life with MORE of the very thing that you do not want. There will come a moment in which you must simply make the choice to let go in order to get on with your life. Letting go means making a decision not to be angry, not to be upset, not to hold onto thoughts of unfairness and revenge. Letting go means opening your heart and mind to an explanation that you do not now recognize, may never recognize, but choose to live in recognition of. You will know that there is a rubber band tightening itself somewhere in your life the moment you see darkness, experience tightness or pain. In that moment, you must make the choice let go. Until today, you may have been holding onto something that was cutting you off from life. Just for today, be devoted to hanging loose, being free and going with the flow. When you feel your body becoming tense, drop your hands to your side, take a deep breath and relax. If it does not work the first time, do it again and again until it works. Today I am devoted to relaxing, releasing and letting go IYANLA VANZANT from Until Today
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:02:26 +0000