Make It Heaven Newsletter March 2003 You Don't Know, So Let It Go

Make It Heaven Newsletter: Letting Go

by Rebecca Skeele, Author, Counselor, Teacher

The Unknown

The unknown is part of heaven making. Not knowing is a frightening place when you are used to having life all mapped out. And yet, that’s exactly where all the new opportunities, insights, awareness’s and aha’s are waiting.

Trusting that you are safe and comfortable with I don’t know requires digging deep inside to find untapped reserves of courage. This larger playing field where heaven waits asks you to show up, stay present, relax and love yourself. Fear expects you to contract, stress out and blame yourself.

Questions for glimpsing into the unknown:

Which master am I serving? Love or fear?

How can I support myself in this moment to know I am safe?

What is a loving way to handle the fear that surfaces when I let go and step into the new?

Our second issue will: support you with tools for growth and expansion and gently remind you that even though you think you know, you don’t – so let it go. (P.S. and that’s a good thing!)

Tip of the Month

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- from Harry Potter...and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Lots of fresh insight, energy, and enthusiasm are locked up in limiting beliefs. Examining and discarding old hand-me-down beliefs can be as uplifting as a spring-cleaning.

Action To Take:

Make a list over the next several weeks of the limiting beliefs about the following:

Trusting the unknown
Letting go of control
Creating safety in the face of fear
Embracing all of life as FOR ME
Affirming worthiness in taking new heaven-making steps

Then create a statement that reflects a new choice.

Example: I must know how to do it right or I will look like a fool.

New Choice: I love myself no matter if I know or don’t know.

Example: I am afraid because the world is a dangerous place.

New Choice: I choose to focus on peace and maintain my peace remembering that true safety lies within.

Discard old beliefs like outgrown clothes – declare, "I let this go. It no longer serves me." Beliefs that hang on may require more patience, compassion and work on your part to disassemble.

Keep affirming the new conscious choice. As you allow your liberation to unfold, notice how much lighter you feel.

The Art of Acceptance

Accepting what is in life brings peace in the midst of upset and relief in the face of struggle. In heaven-making, as in other journeys of life, doubt and confusion appear along the path to distract, challenge, and impede our progress. Learning the simple but powerfully effective self-mastery skill of acceptance works to free up energy so you can take action.

Acceptance is: acknowledging or admitting that something exists. I am afraid in this moment. I am having thoughts that I am a failure.

Acceptance is not: condoning or agreeing with the thought or feeling and giving it energy. I am afraid in this moment so I will shut down and hide my feelings.

Acceptance is: owning the thought or feeling as part of myself. I accept that I have a part inside that feels unworthy.

Acceptance is not: assigning meaning to myself so I will shut down and control my feelings. There must be something wrong with me for having these feelings of unworthiness.

Accepting stops the judgment. It frees you up to step back a bit, take a deep breath, and let it be.

Action To Take:

Practice self-acceptance statements throughout your day. Keep an awareness journal.

The Highest Good

…look for the good, for the Divine in all people and things, and all the rest leave to God.
– John-Roger

Working with Divinity as your partner in cocreating means that the ego/personality needs and wants are not always satisfied. This can be a little daunting at first. A part of you is used to demanding, wanting life to show up in a certain way and spoiled about having MY way or the highway. Actually, Spirit replies, "Thank you for offering. Yes, you will get the HIGH way."

From the small limited viewpoint of the ego, the higher way isn’t always in focus or even considered. What if asking for the higher good is really a smart choice? Have you ever had the experience of getting what you prayed for only to discover, "But I didn’t want this!" Sometimes what comes attached can be very challenging.

Shifting beyond "my way" to the greater good happens incrementally. First it takes practice, then it requires that you check out the evidence.

Action To Take:

Check out asking for the highest good of all concerned in situations, events, projects, relationships, challenges and even world events this month.

Possible awareness questions:

What showed up in my life when I asked for the highest good?
Was there a greater blessing that I received?
Did my blessings come in the form of more inner peace, joy, happiness, and well-being rather than how I wanted it in the world?
How is grace a part of the highest good?

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Rebecca Skeele MA, MSS, LPCC, President of Make It Heaven LLC, is an author, speaker and master facilitator supporting people to cocreate their personal heaven on earth. She is the author of You Can Make It Heaven: How to Enrich Your Life with Abundance and Loving and numerous articles supporting personal and spiritual growth. She combines her extensive years as a spiritual counselor and coach, two Master’s degrees in Spiritual Counseling and Spiritual Science, her certification in the noetic field of consciousness and her study as an non-denominational minister to support conscious choice and awakening to the truth within. Her new course, Becoming a Spiritual Scientist: A Course for Cocreators is offered in Santa Fe, NM. Visit http://www.spiritual-scientist.com for more information or email Rebecca at rebecca@makeitheaven.com