What happens when we release the grip?

5 things I do help relax my energies

This is the first time I have recorded a voice over. I do hope you enjoy it. I apologise in advance for any background noise.

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When we release the grip
our hand relaxes,

it slowly opens
our fingers slowly spread.

We begin to feel the air
between our fingers
and the space within our palms expand.

When we release the grip
It changes form -
What we thought it looked like
Is no longer,

It is allowed to breathe.
And it too opens.

When we release the grip
Our hand begins to relax
the blood flows better
our fingers expand.
Our hands open.

When we release the grip
it becomes free
and it too can breathe
it too can grow
and it too
can relax.

When we release the grip
we become more open
giving honour to the Truth

we allow it to be free.

When we release the grip

we too become free

and we fly.

My dear one,
How are you? How tightly clenched are your hands at the moment? How tight and tense are your shoulders? What about your jaw?

What have you held onto lately, my dear friend?
What have you held onto that has stopped you from moving forward, or backward, or sideways?
What have you held onto lately that has suffocated your dreams, your truth, your inspiration?

I have written in a couple of my recent posts that I am in the midst of brewing something new.
I am writing and scribbling and awakening something inside me that keeps whispering in my ears, in my soul and in my dreams.

It is just there and not yet here,
and yet
it feels very close by

Does that ever happen to you?

Do you ever feel that when you are in the midst of creating something special,
you know that while you are unable to rush it
you want to stand on the highest mountain and yell out its name,

and yet,
at this moment in time
it doesn’t have a name

yet it feels so alive and real and
and

and

so tangibly intangible.

I am feeling like that now.

I feel however that I need to open my palms more to set old beliefs free,
so I can hear its name, accept its energy and feel its presence in my life.

So, I pause for a few moments and consider

WHAT AM I HOLDING ONTO TOO TIGHTLY?
WHAT ARE THESE OLD BELIEF SYSTEMS THAT STILL MAKE MY HANDS TENSE UP AND MY BODY TIGHTEN?

Let me name some of them for your silent witness…

• That people would make fun of me and witch hunt me.

• That people might not like my new idea - and I would feel like a fool in sharing it with others.

• That I only need to shine my light THIS brightly and not THAT BRIGHTLY.

• That I’m not good enough.

• I was burnt out a while ago and could only offer a small amount of me, so I held on tightly to that other part of me that I wanted to hold safe, so that it could relax and breathe out and be filled with something else,
  yet holding onto it made it feel suffocated and depressed.

• That I was holding onto “the-once-secure-excuses” that kept me “safe” and at the same time kept me small - see points 1 and 4 above

• That I was afraid to promote my work or share what I was up to for fear that you wouldn’t support me - see second point - and yet you do and did.

And yes all these did hold some kind of invisible magic spell over me,
they were all real excuses and reasons
all true fears and doubts
all true things that I hid behind in order to stop my inner light shining brightly.

Now though,
While they are still here, they are more like old quiet room-mates that do their own thing and I am no longer a major part of their lives…
Yet they are still there
and they still at times take up space in my hands and heart.

I believe in myself enough now to know that I can create something different something empowering
something awe-inspiring
for myself,
my family
and you.

The old beliefs made me tense and tight
They made me hang onto them like a dog that does not want to let go of its bone.

I no longer want to eat that old bone now.
I want to sit on the rocks overlooking unlimited horizons and dream and manifest the bigger dreams.

Sometimes these old room mates come back, to try and offer me those old bones, trying to sabotage my flow, my inspiration, my creativity, my light…Oh yes, they still make me tense and tight, however I have learnt over the years that I do not have to hold onto them, and that I can do things to help me release the grip they try to hold over me…

Here are 5 things that I do to release the grip…

1. I NAME the things that are in my hand…I like to see them as tangible things that have a shape and a name and a personality and I name them and talk to them and together we work out why I still have to hold them tight.

2. I dance and move my body. I close my eyes and feel the inner music inside myself. I then dance to that inner music. I dance first with what grips and holds me tight. I honour that dance. I honour how it has made me feel and move.

   Then I dance in the NEW energy, the new ideas, the new way of being in the world. And I let my body deeply experience how that feels..to integrate that new energy into my being with passion, creativity and a deep sense of WELCOME HOME. I dance with my whole energy OPEN and I feel the expansion and then the welcome home.

3. I go for a walk, ideally to an unlimited horizon, and I look out and out and out…and I see that nature is unlimited and in that unlimitedness I am reminded that I too am nature and I too can allow my cells to expand to their full potential. I open my hands wide, I open my mouth wide, I take my shoes off and let my feet feel wide. I then sit and let my vision be wide and expansive and open.

4. I consciously rub my hands. One hand massaging the other. One hand open receiving love and care and attention from the other hand. This is a wonderful self care ritual…to rub your own hands. To rub your palms, your fingers, your thumb, the back of your hand, your wrist, even your arm. And then swap hands.
   
   When I rub my own hands, they are unable to be closed tight.

5. I get a healing of some sort… maybe a soul retrieval, maybe a spiritual healing, maybe I just listen to mindful meditations. Maybe the healing is reading a favourite book, or sewing, or gardening, or chatting to a trusted friend.

   Healing comes in all different ways.

I would love to know WHAT YOU DO TO RELEASE THE GRIP?

I would love to know what it is you have been hanging onto.
I’ll pour the tea so we can chat….

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Over the next couple of weeks I will share some of these beautiful ideas that I have been brewing with you. You will be invited to take a sip from my inner cauldron of inspiration and healing.

I look forward to sharing more with you.

Until next week,

Blessed be,

ps/ Feel free to reach out if you need help in Releasing the Grip…