Relax - let go
a sure way to health
The benefits of releasing ourselves to the Mother, through relaxing our thoughts and
feelings in quiet practice of regular prayer, can never be truly measured. Those who have
done this know its fruits well and rejoice. Those who have not are missing one of the
greatest blessings they can ever experience.
Without consciously knowing it, we burden ourselves every day with thoughts of
concern over our personal affairs and over someone else’s ways of doing or living. We
weigh ourselves down with emotional pressures and criticisms of self and others, with
doubt and fear and anxiety. As these thoughts and fears accumulate and as we carry
them over from day to day, the body then bears the weight and shows the effects of it.
The muscles, the organs, the glands, the myriad cells and atoms within the body-temple
become burdened.
The tremendous truth, however, is that this is not necessary. There is a way of release
from this kind of pressure. The way is one of true spiritual relaxation, letting go all to the
presence and power of the Divine Mother. “I will give you rest” is the invitation and the
promise. We have only to take Her word and release ourselves to the presence, make a
habit of doing this in order to live in lightness, ease and peace.
If we want to live as unburdened and as free, light and strong as She, we must be willing
to give up all the burden of our personal self for Her sake. The easy way is the narrow
way, the way that is so narrow there is no room for the “BAGGAGE” of the human self.
We must “Lose Weight”, the weight of the personal mind, the human feeling, until all
such baggages are dropped in deference to the Divine Mother. We think we are willing
to do this, but we need only look at our own thoughts and emotions through one day to
realise that we have hardly begun to do it. We are continually looking for a place to “lay
our head” and for a situation in which to settle, and for a condition outwardly on which
we may rest our hopes and dreams and desires. As long as we do this we are not relaxing
or letting go.
If you wish to begin to help yourself mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, here
are a few suggestions. Find a quiet time and a place where you will not be disturbed
for a few minutes. Relax your body physically, either in a chair or a bed or on the floor,
whatever is the most comfortable for you. Next, begin the process of release by starting
with the thing, person or circumstance that is giving you the most difficulty.
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