Letting Go, Moving Forward

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

-- Havelock Ellis

I’ve Been There...A Testimony of Hope has themes about growth through releasing.  There has been a lot of time, energy preparing the material and my mindset to the raw events of the past and sharing it with others. Detaching from outcomes is another form of letting go and trusting the process. 

The art of non-attachment is a tough lesson to master.  Some events force us to release our hold on people, events, and possessions. Then there are situations,  memories, parts of self that cease to hold a purpose or are holding us back. 

Withing the human condition we tend to form an attachment to people and things. Attachments to people and things, it can experience and be feeling when you realized that it's time to let go. Even the mere thought of not having that person or thing in your life squeezes the heart in pain.

Coming to terms with the reality that either people, events or situations change to the extent that it's necessary to let go and move on. Those who do not grow with us frequently grow apart. Letting go of the past associations are daunting. memories are replayed and holding on to the past prevents moving forward. 

Letting go creates a void and the universe abhors them. Eventually, it will fill it or we can choose to see it as an opportunity to focus on more of what we want rather than living in the past. The past is done, it cannot be changed so living back there stalls growth and transformation. 

Leaving the old behind requires a leap of faith into uncharted territory and that is the daunting aspect of change. It is stated eloquently in the quote by Lao Tzu. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

And -- Leo Buscaglia Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Angel Walk Lessons

Angel  Walk Lessons
Anonymous Source


This Is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen, and it really puts things into a healing insight. I took some editing liberties and corrected some of the content and added a few highlights of my own Other than that the original message is intact.

I am an energy empath and trained at the Master/Teacher level of Reiki energy facilitation. With the gift of second sight, I am often asked to send energy and offer distant healing to those in need. This beautifully written gift from an online fellow healer is something I choose to share from an anonymous author. Thank you whoever and wherever you are.  

Here is the sequencing: During a dream state meditation,  I went to heaven was blessed to be greeted by an angel who took me on a walk around an energy realm.  We walked side-by-side in a large workroom filled with angels. The angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said suggested I watch and learn. 

Looking looked around the area, there is an in go and outgo of bustling activity. Standing in silent awe I see a bevy of busy angels and ascended being sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.

After a while, there is a gentle hand on my arm as I am guided down a long corridor. The energy shifts as we reach the second section. ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.:
The angel then said to me, 'This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them.. 'I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally, at the farthest end of the long corridor, we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section" my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed as I query, "How is it that there is so little activity in this de[artment. here?"

The angel sighs then respond with,  “It is sad and disappointing to see day after day. The millions with humanity that after  receive the blessings they asked for, very  few send back acknowledgments.”

“How does one acknowledge the bountiful gift of blessings?' I asked.

“Simple,' the angel answered. Just say, 'Thank you, Divine Source for blessings received.”

“What blessings do they forget to  acknowledge?' I ask.

The everyday blessings are sharply underscored and I know are frequently taken for granted as the Angel continues.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy .'

“And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.'

“If you woke up this morning with more health than illness  these humans  blessed over than the many who will not survive this day."

"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation You are ahead of 700 million people in the world."

“If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."

“If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare."

“If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair."

It is a very sobering moment. So I tentatively ask…”Um,
what can I do?  How and where can I start?” This is a powerful message about the importance of acknowledging the good we receive?”

“The angel quietly replied. You can do your part to show your own gratitude by sharing this message.” I received the angel energy equivalent of a hug in human form, then guided back to the present moment.

Being so moved by the imagery and messaging in this beautifully written reminder to consistently speak our appreciation to others and Divine Source Grace I walk my talk and pass it along through the channels of our social media networks.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

'Thank you God/Goddess for giving me the ability to share this message and for the opportunity with CHANGE MAKING COMMUNICATIONS for the many wonderful people to share it with.'

So for everyone reading this, I hope you will always remember to celebrate the good in your life and in those you love. May we all remember to seize the moments of good every day in every way,  count our blessings out loud and with others, and send acknowledgments of appreciation to Source for the channels they flow through,  If you feel this way too, feel free to pass this along and pay it forward as a reminder for others to embrace and send a thank you not to the Angel Acknowledge Department for all they do to guide, protect and assist us through our earthly journey through life, then back to the next realm for a life assesment this time around.

CHALLENGES ARE LIMITED AND TEMPORAL
By Raia Darsey-Malloy

Illness and limitation are limited and temporal
Challenge and change cannot limit love, care and connection
It  never succeeds in  dissolving all hope or faith.
Challenge does not eclipse beliefs in healing and miracles
Nor does it  dissolve all friend and family bonds and frequently strengthens
Challenges and change cannot remove all good memories they live outside illness and death.
Trying as it may be, it frequently sparks courage
Challenges can and do inspire inner strength and inspire others
It t can never extinguish our eternal life force
It may harm or destroy our body, but never our consciousness, as the Divine Spark within us lives on forever.

Soul Speak Attitude of Gratitude

Soul Speak Attitude of Gratitude

When I found more pain in others than what I found within myself

I learned what it meant to feel compassion

And my pain began to fade

When I found more forgiveness in others than I had within myself,

I learned what it meant to feel peace

I am grateful for learning the way to turn my scars into

Stars that guide my life and within that gratitude I am truly blessed.

Through the dark nights of my soul growth, I always held to my mother's life teachings about having an attitude of gratitude for the good in life and what IS working on focusing what is not. She reminded me that I had been one of the blessed few surviving the polio epidemic without lasting disability or death as so many others had. Even through years of daunting family dysfunction I never went short on any of the essentials of life, a home, food on our table, the ability to live, walk and function five senses intact. We loved in a safe, supportive community, with access to a good education and healthcare and that held true as a child and is true today.

My family lived in a safe, supportive community, with access to a good education and healthcare and that held true as a child and is true today. So yes, aspects of my life were daunting and felt dreadful, yet I learned how to thrive and thrive and now my painful life lessons are a testimony of hope for others. I am thankful every day for the bountiful blessings in my healing journey and the reason I feel a moral responsibility to share the truth I know for sure. It is not what happened to us that defines our lens on life or defines who we are and become. That is our responsibility to discover. That is the gift part of Divine Source giving everyone the right to choose and understand the cause and effect of what we think to say and do.

So yes, aspects of my life were daunting and felt dreadful and I admit to feeling victimized, hopeless and helpless during the shadows ages and stage of my earlier years. Through it all, my mother’s wise counsel about finding something to look forward to, count my blessings and keep my faith. Within the application of these wisdom ways I  learned how to survive, then thrive.  As a way to show my gratitude for prayers answered, I am choosing to share how painful life lessons can become a testimony of hope for others. I am thankful every day for the bountiful blessings in my healing journey and the reason I feel a moral responsibility to share the truth I know for sure. It is not what happened to us that defines our lens on life or defines who we are and become. That is our responsibility to discover. That is the gift part of Divine Source giving everyone the right to choose and understand the cause and effect of what we say, think and do.

When we begin the initiation process into a life we break up the old emotions, along with their habits and behaviors. It becomes easier to breakthrough long-established neural pathways in our primitive brain akin to a flood washing away old roadways of communication. Then changes occur from the inside out and outside in. The debilitating grip of emotions we repressed or denied rise and we are finally able to experience the full range of our humanity from pain to joy. When we feel it, we heal it. Old neural programming is created and as the old ways of holding things in are released there is room to feel greater love, peace, acceptance, integration, compassion, and generosity towards self and others.  Shamans refer to this practice metaphorically as acquiring our eagle wings. We are able to soar above situations without becoming entangled in them. We bring in the angels of the higher self.

Here are other examples of taking good for granted rather than an attitude of gratitude. There was a blind girl that hated herself because she was blind.  She hated everyone except her loving boyfriend.  He was always there for her.  

She told her boyfriend, "If I could see the world, I'd marry you."  One day someone donated a pair of eyes to her.  When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.  He asked her, "Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?"  The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind.  The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her.  She hadn't expected that.  The thought of looking at him for the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.  Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying, 

"Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine." This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.  Only a very few remember what our life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?  Your playing small does not serve the world. We were born to make manifest shining radiance of the Divine Spark within us. It is not just in some of us that love and light are for everyone. In addition, when we let our own light shine, lead by example, giving others permission to do the same. Once we are liberated from our own fear, our presence as a human BE-ing light our inner light does not need a center stage and we liberate and empower others to do the same.

Today before you say an unkind word -- Think of someone who can't speak.  Before you complain about the taste of your food -- Think of someone who has nothing to eat.  Before you complain about your husband or wife -- Think of someone who's crying out to Divine Source for a companion.  Today before you complain about life -- Think of someone who went too early to heaven.  Before you complain about your children -- Think of someone who desires children but they are barren.  Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep -- Think of the people who are living in the streets. 

Before whining about the distance you drive -- Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.  And when you are tired and complain about your job -- Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.  But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another -- Remember that it is not our place to judge others.

Compassion is a mind that is motivated by cherishing other living beings and wishes to release them from their suffering. Throughout my life path, I bear witness to varying degrees of compassion and ability and show kindness. However, within humanity, there is an equal to or greater than a measure of bias, judgment, prejudice where kindness, unconditional love, and kindness. limited to those who are strangers or different in any way.  When our family and friends are suffering we easily develop compassion for them. Not so true for some to feel sympathy for people they find unpleasant, different or those we do not know. 

Take personal responsibility now--choose your thoughts--change your attitude and decide to believe in yourself and you will attract a happier life and feel a sense of freedom and independence.