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LIVING LIGHTS ON!
RELEASE THE OUTCOME Everything is perfect, and as it should be. Sometimes what initially shows up may not look perfect to you at the time. However, by successfully releasing the outcome, which is your willful picture of how you think it should look, you allow the opportunity of serendipity to provide your perfect solution. When you release your attachment to the outcome you can say, “I was clear about my intention and what showed up is perfect.” The following was written by Laura Shope. Laura is a Clarity coach living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is a warm and loving real life application of the principle of releasing the outcome. My mother-in-law took to her bed under hospice care the day after Thanksgiving after a 4 year wrestle with cancer. We had all accepted that, this time, she would not ‘recover’ as she had so many times before. My husband and two sons, along with her husband and two sons moved all our activities into her room so she would not miss out on anything. A few days later, my father-in-law came across the wishbone from the turkey we enjoyed on Thanksgiving. He brought it in and offered it to my two sons to make a wish, recounting for them the old belief that whoever gets the larger portion when it is pulled apart will have their wish come true. Now, my sons are 4 and 7 years old. This is the time in their lives where myths and stories like this are ‘the truth.’ My 7 year old won the pull, getting the larger portion of the wishbone. He turned to me with a big smile on his face and said, “Mommy, I wished for Grandma to get well again!” In his mind, since he had won the wishbone, his wish was bound to come true. I am not one to ever want to destroy the magic of childhood beliefs, and, I believed that his wish would take a miracle to come true. (I’m not one to rule out miracles either!) I briefly imagined my son losing his faith in ‘wishes’ at the early age of 7… Instead, I smiled and replied, “That is a very loving wish.” Later that evening, he brought it up again and we had the opportunity for a private conversation about wishes. Wishes, I said, are like intentions…We make them, and then, how they actually come true is often a surprise and mystery to us. In this instance, we talked about the word ‘well’ and how we do not know what ‘well’ will turn out to be for Grandma. For her, getting better may mean passing on to the next world as her body is no longer able to sustain her spirit within it any longer. We make the wish, then we take the actions to have that wish come true, like caring for Grandma the best we can, and then we have to let go and trust that the wish will manifest in the way it is meant to. It may not be what we had imagined, and yet, when we look back, we recognize our original wish in the final outcome. This is the same process we go through when we create a vision or any intention for our lives…We articulate the intention, put our attention on it, take the actions that align with our intention and release the outcome, allowing to show up the best possible manifestation of our original intention. In our lives, we must also adapt through the process, often changing the way in which our vision unfolds or altering the timing of something important to us. As we navigate this ‘river,’ we must never give up on the dream itself, no matter how impossible it seems. Have you lost faith, somewhere along the way, that wishes can come true? We teach our children to make a wish when they blow out the candles on their birthday cake. We encourage them to look for four-leaf clovers. We inspire them to wish upon a star… While we often think of these things as make-believe stories for children, what if there is some truth to the concept? What happens when we allow the magic and the spirit to infuse the process? How does this alter your experience? About a week later, my mother-in-law passed. In the end, we witnessed the most peaceful beauty emerge in her expression. I knew that she was ‘well’ again, if not in the way my son had desired, in the way that was best for her. Have faith. Faith in the process, faith in your intention, faith in your ability to take the actions aligned with your vision… Have faith that what shows up is exactly perfect and as it should be, even if we do not understand it in the moment. Release the outcome – the desire to be in control and to predict the result – and discover the magic of the moment and what is created. Allow the 7 year old in you to make a wish, and see it come true… Laura Shope Live every day with your lights on! For more information, check out our website, or call us at 877-335-9333 Refer a friend to Lights On Living! Click Here
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