Seeing Through to Perfection by Letting Go of the Wants

Begin by making yourself comfortable and focusing your attention inwardly.

Now, bring to mind one of the main issues that you’ve been working on, or a new or different issue that’s currently up in your awareness. As you think about that situation, problem, intention, or goal, allow yourself to get in touch with your feelings about it right in this very moment.

Could you welcome that feeling?

Now, dig a little deeper and see if you can determine whether the NOW feeling comes from wanting approval, control, security, or separation. As you let go of the wants, remember that there is nothing wrong with having approval, control, security, or oneness; you are merely letting go of the sense, or feeling, of lacking them.

Whichever want it is, ask: Could you just allow yourself to feel it? Embrace it fully.

Then, could you let it go?

Look at the same issue again and see what your NOW feeling is about it.

Does the feeling come from wanting approval, control, survival, or separation?

Could you let that sense of wanting go? Could you allow it to release?

Now, focus on your issue again and see if there’s anything about it that’s stirring up resistance. You could be resisting it changing, you could be resisting it the way it is, or there might be a specific aspect of it towards which you feel resistant.

Could you allow yourself to feel the resistance?

Then, could you allow yourself to let it go?

See if there’s something else about this issue that you’re resisting.

Could you let go of resisting it?

Remember, resistance is pushing against the world so that it will push back. It is saying that things aren’t okay the way they are and digging our heels in against them.

Repeat the last few steps on resistance two or three more times, then move on.

Now, see if there is anything about this issue that you’d like to change.

Could you let go of wanting to change it?

Find something else about the issue, or the way you feel about it, that you’d like to change.

Could you let go of wanting to change it?

Is there anything about the issue that seems stuck in any way?

Do you want to change that sense of stuckness?

Could you let go of wanting to change that sense of stuckness?

Check again: Is there anything about the way you feel about the issue or your attitude about the issue that seems stuck?

When we feel stuck, we want to make things different, but that makes us even more stuck. To let go of stuckness, all we need to do is let go of wanting to change what is.

So, could you let go of wanting to change whatever sense of stuckness you might be feeling right now?

Now, notice how you feel about the issue right now. Observe how your feelings have already shifted. This bit of the process has probably made a huge difference already.

Underneath your issue, is there anything that you’d like to control, such as the way you feel about it or the way that it seems to be?

Could you welcome that sense of wanting to control?

Then, could you let it go?

Repeat the above series of questions several more times, each time noticing how your energy about the issue is shifting and clearing up any remaining sense of wanting to control that’s associated with it.

Now, is there anything about this issue—how you feel about it, how you’re interacting with other people in relationship to it, or how you’re relating to yourself about it—that stirs up a sense of wanting your own or anyone else’s approval?

Could you welcome how much you want approval?

Could you let the wanting go?

Repeat the above series of questions several more times, clearing up any remaining sense of wanting approval there is.

Now, let’s dig even deeper. Is there anything about this situation, problem, or issue that stirs up a sense of wanting safety, security, or survival?

Could you just allow yourself to feel the sense of wanting security?

Then, could you let it go?

Focus on the situation again and see if you can find anything about it that makes you feel a little insecure or a little threatened, and notice how that comes from wanting security or survival.

Could you let go of wanting security or survival?

Repeat the above series of questions several more times, clearing up any remaining sense of wanting safety or security there is.

Now, simply tune in and become aware of how you’re feeling inside. Notice that you’re probably feeling a lot more space and lightness. If there’s any sense of wanting to hold on to that good feeling, notice how it comes from wanting to control.

Also, realize that there are plenty more good feelings where that came from. Our feelings of limitation are finite, whereas good feelings are infinite.

So, could you let go of wanting to control the good feeling and just let it be?

Now, relax into whatever you’re feeling in the moment. Welcome it fully. Every time we welcome a feeling fully, we’re letting go of wanting to change or control it. We are accepting it as it is, at least for the present moment.

If there’s still a remaining sense of contraction or negativity about your issue, switch your focus to the increased lightness that you’re aware of—just for now—and give yourself over to that.

Let it have you as best you can.

Relax into it.

Allow yourself to be at rest.

The natural goodness that you’re feeling inside is always present, no matter how extreme your feelings may become. The goodness resides underneath your emotions and thoughts, and it’s available to you any time you shift your focus in its direction. All the power of your unlimited potential is available to you, and it can naturally dissolve your remaining sense of limitation if you allow it.

Could you allow yourself to let go even more into this present moment and trust the power that knows the way?

Allow yourself, even for this moment, to see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be.

For a moment, could you entertain the idea that maybe all is well and everything is unfolding as it should?

Now, in a moment, gradually start shifting your awareness outwardly again and know that everything you’ve gained from this process is with you forever.

Every process is a beginning, an opening to the life that you’ve always wanted, and a discovery of what’s really true for you.

So, allow this to flow easily into your life.

Okay?

Love,

Hale

posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:49 PM by admin@sedona.com