Catrien Ross on Getting Unstuck By Gently Letting Go

Catrien Ross on Getting Unstuck By Gently Letting Go

Letting Go of Loss

Someone you loved is gone.

Something you needed is no longer there.

Your heroic commitment has faded into failure.

The foundations of your existence lie crumpled beneath you.

You surrendered solutions long ago and your answer ahead seems impossible to fathom.

What remains?

Today, there is nothing and no-one.

There is only you.

Out of pain and disillusionment you admit all you once cherished is indeed lost.

Faced with emptiness, you breathe into your untapped courage.

You discover that in grasping nothing you are now free to embrace everything.

You are getting unstuck.

Letting Go of Masks

So you peel off your myriad masks to reveal the face you knew before your outer world was made.

For the first time in years you understand who looks back at you in the mirror.

You are this one genuine face.

Yet what your features reflect may be too much for those you meet.

Some will gasp, dismayed.

Others will shrink back, embarrassed by what you now expose.

Even your closest family and friends might retreat.

In your clarity of recognition you observe yourself fronting this face, no matter how discomforting.

You are compelled above all else to be the face of what you truly are.

You are getting unstuck.

Letting Go of Maps

You step around a sudden curve and the contours of your inner life open into unfamiliar territory.

You realize the poles have shifted and your compass no longer points your true direction.

Your former maps are useless.

Disoriented in place and time you can confirm only uncertain and difficult terrain around you.

What happened to the paths you once traveled?

Where do you go from here?

Mapless, you have only your intuition to guide you.

Now you must trust the honesty of your own emerging senses.

The way the land lies: how the sun falls; where the water flows.

Now you must deepen awareness of what is real in yourself and what you love.

You test your footing on fresh ground that has never been walked before.

You expand into the unknown, an authentic explorer at last.

You are getting unstuck.

Letting Go of Limits

You long to cry rivers, but your eyes burn parched as desert sands.

Your heart extends in natural connection, but your rhythms are stifled.

You yearn to share your essence with others, but you dim your response.

Your mouth fills with the truth of what you are, but you silence your song.

And then your energy shifts.

You find yourself letting go, little by little, of limits that define and constrain you.

You are getting unstuck.

Letting Go of Aloneness

Your lone voice echoes in the mountains.

A wind, too, blows through the canyon.

Birds together sing the oneness of spring.

Rain lifts in singular purpose from the Earth’s living waters.

You accept your own reconnection as a journey of transformation and compassionate wisdom.

Year after year, you have tuned and repaired this instrument you are.

Now you are become the music of your life.

And your true melody is thrumming.

So you play and you sing and you leap and you laugh and you touch and you cry and you sense and you know and you thrill with delight and you nurture with joy and you dance with inspired abandon in the landscapes of your soul’s desire.

You are getting unstuck.

Are you getting unstuck by gently letting go?