Meditation on Letting Go

I came across this daily reflection in Tian Dayton’s book The Soul’s Companion last night and it was just what I needed to read then, so I am sharing it here this morning :

Letting Go

 I will try to let go today.  My fear of change keeps me from moving into further stages of living.  I look around me and my life is good.  But I forget that I participated in making it so.  I have to constantly remind myself that I create my own experience of life. that a day will continue to present itself before me each time I wake up.

The attitude that I take toward my life is mine.  No one can take it away from me unless I let them. Life takes courage, so does happiness.  Often I abandon my own happiness because I am afraid that in taking a positive attitude I am only tricking myself into feeling happy.  But that is not happiness – it’s just denial.  Real happiness doesn’t depend on denying pain.  Real happiness accepts life as it is and enjoys it anyway – realising that given the choce, one may as well relax and be amused by the ride, and stand in awe of the quiet and abiding mystery.

Happiness is an inside job.

The following post concerns how we can generate our own feelings from within rather than blaming the world for making us feel a certain way.  Most certainly only any day we may feel sadness anxiety and pain but we can also make the choice to accept these feelings and do what we can to make ourselves feel better in the midst of them.