De-Stress.pdf Mar-Apr 2014 | Page 22

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. 22