Week 30′s Change Challenge: What is one thing you would like to release in your life?
This month’s Change Challenge 52 theme is “Letting Go/ Forgiveness”. We will break it down into parts this month.
This week’s challenge is easy, just name one thing, person, emotion, or situation you would like to release in your life. The next few weeks we will go through steps to help that desire become reality.
It is easy for me to name that one thing. In recent years, I have realized that I am constantly worried about offending other people. Like a computer matrix, I am subconsciously constantly scanning for what I might have done wrong, what I could have done or said better. I am ready to let this go, and be secure in who I am at this moment.
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I think for me is the fact that there is so much that I am not in control of. I would like to be able to release the thought that I have to have control of all things to be in charge of my life and my choices. THere are things that I am realizing that I have no control over, especially things that are in the future. I am very aware that I must live for the moment, in the present and not try to “forecast” or “what if”. For me, being able to releast that unconditionally would be yet another positive step in my journey.
I would release myself from having to fill every minute of my time and allow myself to sometimes just sit, breathe and be….
I want to release myself from the pressure of being a perfect mom!
One thing I would like to release…tension with my mom. For years, I’ve tried just accepting that I will never have a “deep” relationship with her…that I very much need to keep our conversations and interactions at a “superficial level” (per a previous counselors strong suggestion). Anyway, I would just so love to have a mother that I can confide in, enjoy being around, and frankly, respect in the same way that I hope my children respect me now and in the future. It’s difficult, though. I respect that we’re very different. I respect the many wonderful things she has done for me as a mother in the past. But I wish I could respect her (and right now, her decisions that I frankly don’t respect) on a more general level that would allow me to feel at ease around her, thereby giving my children the gift (?) of getting to know her as a grandmother.
So that’s it – that’s what I would release. Essentially, I would release my inability to just “let go” and have the “ignorance is bliss” outlook on life, as my mom seems to have…would definitely make my life easier, though I’m not sure one I could feel okay about.
Thanks for the food for thought!!!