Allowing

Posted on November 1st, 2010

“Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.”  Eckhart Tolle

river-and-waterfallAllowing things to be as they are, allowing possibilities to arise, allowing ourselves to feel and experience life flowing through us; this is what living is all about. Holding back, numbing out and resisting what is, takes a tremendous amount of energy. We do this by constantly thinking, judging and analyzing, by controlling all the details, and blocking out our feelings and intuition.

When we let go into the moment and sink down into our body, we experience the river of life instead of watching it pass us by. We flow with the stream, enjoying the curves and dips. We feel the rush of the current, the exhilaration of the waterfall, and the soft ebb and flow of the tidal pools. We taste, smell, touch, see and feel the nuances of each life experience; if we allow them in.

As we trust ourselves enough to allow life to unfold naturally, we move into a state of non-resistance. We stop judging, struggling and fighting against what is. We open up to receive love in our hearts and life force energy in our body. Blocks melt away as we allow ourselves to move into balance and harmony. With no more pressures of “should”, “what-if”, or “have-to” dominating our psyche, synchronicity and serendipity reveal themselves within each perfect moment. This is what allowing gives us. We have permission to be ourselves, express emotions, feel sensations pulsate through our body, and touch into the spiritual essence of who we are at a core level.

Insights into Allowing

♦ What do you allow yourself to experience? What emotions do you feel? Is there room for physical sensations of pleasure and pain? Can you watch thoughts surface without judgment? Can you feel the energy around and within you? Do you dare to let yourself have ambitions, goals and dreams?

♦ What don’t you allow? What emotions are not okay to feel? What pleasure or pains do you cover up? What people or situations do you judge and not accept? What support, compliments or offerings do you have difficulty receiving?

♦ Notice how much time you spend in the head with concepts, ideas and judgments of life versus how much time you spend in the body, feeling, touching and experiencing each moment.

Inspiration for Allowing

♦ Instead of rushing through each moment to get to the next, stop and be with each experience. Feel the pulsating warmth of the shower in the morning, taste each morsel of food, be with the person speaking to you, take in all the sights, sounds, smells and sensations as you walk in nature, feel the flow of energy through your body as you work and play. Allow all of the nuances to touch you and make your life richer.

♦ The next time you’re in resistance because of a person or situation, or you find yourself struggling to make something happen, stop going against the current of life. Allow people and things to be as they are. Remember that change occurs when you move into a state of acceptance.

♦ Sit with your eyes closed and breathe in allowing and acceptance. Relax your mind and receive the flow of life force energy through your body. Let your heart open and allow love to flow freely. Allow abundance to flow into your life. Allow sensations and emotions to surface. What is your body feeling? What are you experiencing in this moment? Open your eyes and take this state of allowing with you throughout the day.

What does allowing do for you? Please share your insights below in the comment section.


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2 Responses to “Allowing”

  1. LaDawn Says:
    September 27th, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Hello Gini,
    I’m afraid that I don’t really understand the difference between Allowing and having no boundries or conversely Resisting vs. having appropiate boundaries and personal shields from others.

    I have a great deal of trouble being in groups or crowds. Especially in groups where someone shares an emotion. I tend to feel their emotion far stronger than they do and I sometimes end up sobbing for hours for them. This makes no sense, since they tend to bring their emotions up and release them fairly quickly. In a room where the one emotional person is likely to trigger the entire room, it just gets totally unreasonable for me. I sob and struggle and be angry for them for days afterward. I don’t know how to have a boundary about this without resisting it. Or to be in Acceptance and Allowance of this kind of emotional flooding and just be overwhelmed by every emotion everyone else has in my vicinity.

  2. Gini Grey Says:
    September 28th, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    Hello LaDawn,

    Good distinction to look at around allowing and boundaries. I see allowing similar to acceptance in that you accept/allow the moment to be as it is, for if you resist it, it will stick and last longer.

    In allowing, you recognize what’s happening (that you’ve been triggered by or taken on someone else’s emotion), without trying to push it away, and then take an appropriate step. For example with the emotions, recognizing you are very empathic and sensitive to others emotion and energy is the first step. Then you can tune into your own emotion (sadness, anger etc.) and let it flow, with the intent to release the other person’s emotion while you focus on yours (focusing on yours will leave no room for theirs). If you are in a state of non-resistance (did you see the article on that as well?) will allow energy and emotions to pass right through you without sticking.

    Have you read about empaths or how to protect yourself? My article on Aura and Energy Boundaries might be helpful from this site.

    As well this article on my Love Bug site my help: http://ginigrey.com/LoveBug/how-to-stay-balanced-and-energized-around-other-people/, and this article on my Spiritual Transformers site may help as well: http://ginigrey.com/spiritualtransformers/release-peoples-energy-from-your-personal-space/

    Hope this helps,

    Gini

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