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never imagined. She felt guided to return
to an acupuncturist she’d seen many years
before who used treatments, herbs, and diet.
However, this time it all worked, perhaps
because she’d finally released the grip of
her ego’s identification with the problem.
Although flare-ups still come, she’s much
improved.
With the simple substitution
of ‘the’, grasping softens, and
offering begins. Also a part of Sally’s process was
acceptance. While this idea is currently
popular, it can be far easier to invite through
prayer than by trying to convince the ego to
accept what it hates. This means praying to
embrace something As It Is in the now. Not
forever, just right now, since in God’s world,
things can turn on a dime.
Take, for example, “I’m worried right now
about this business . . . and I’m thrilled to be
offering all to Love for the right actions to be
shown at the right time.”
This can be applied to anything. Sally had
built an entire agonizing identity centered
around her terrible rheumatoid arthritis,
which is so easy to do. She was always
saying, “my illness,” “my restrictions,” “my
expenses about all this” with increasing
anger and desperation.
I suggested that since she had nothing to
lose, she could offer the entire mess to the
Divine and release the my.
She began to say, “I give this illness fully
to You. Please, please make me open and
show me the right actions. And if there’s not
currently a solution, please at least let me
accept this for now and make clear what I
need to learn.”
She immediately felt more spacious simply
from dropping that my. And over time,
the process of offering, acceptance, and
disentanglement brought healing she’d
Radical acceptance in the now
opens the Flow.
The concept that “whatever you resist,
persists” has some truth. One of the greatest
revelations of my life was that I could pray
for this radical allowing, especially when
stuck in total resistance. I could say, “Let me
embrace this only for the moment. Let me
say yes just for now.” Acceptance is neither
resignation nor powerlessness, but an
opening of the Way for the next right actions.
© 2019. Tosha Silver Excerpted from the book, It’s Not
Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance.
Hay House.
Tosha Silver - Tosha graduated from Yale with a degree in English
Literature but along the way fell madly in love with yogic philosophy.
She enjoys finding fresh, funny ways to embrace the Divine, while
avoiding conventional jargon and cliches at all cost. She loves how the
sacred and mundane are truly One. Love Itself begins to lead when it
is sincerely invited... by anyone. Learn more at www.ToshaSilver.com.
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doership. One easy way to begin is simply
by replacing ‘my’ with the. We’re taught to
think of ‘my money’, ‘my body’, ‘my partner’,
‘my happiness’, ‘my failure’. Even ‘my
awakening’. In Western culture, the trance
of ‘my’ is king. But here’s the catch: If it all
belongs to you (the ego), the burden is all
yours as well.