Recovering

The last few weeks have left me exhausted emotionally.

I picked up my Glasses yesterday, looked around and thought
Oh.My.God.
I can see December.
Where did the time GO?
Instead of plunging right in
and feeling the familiar *never gonna get it all done*...
I decided to try and figure out what really
Must Be Done.

I'm throwing out all of the articles about how to have a perfectly Organized
Holiday season and Letting IT go.

I am.

Instead of creating more anxiety for myself,
I am focused on
creating sanctuary.

Stillness.

Peace.

I see the absolute JOY in relinquishing
my Pursuit of Perfection,
relaxing into what IS....

I believe in the signs,
which have been apppearing
in Threes.

Thank you, more than you will ever know,
for showing up in my consciousness as
Recovering Perfectionists.

I want to be one, too.

Namaste.

Comments

[Margene]

At this time of year it is so easy to forget our own needs and be overwhelmed by others needs and desires. Make a part of each day for self care and replenishment. You'll have more to give that way.

[Teresa]

Greta...your words are exactly what I needed to read at this moment. While I gave up Holiday induced perfection some time ago, I haven't given up on perfection in other areas of my life - therein lies my current emotional state / my current pain.

Cherise found this for me and I have it taped to my computer monitor at work:

"Pain is your best friend. It is infiniely more honest with you than pleasure. Despite what you might think the painful experinences you have had benefit you far more than the pleasureable ones, even though most of us spend our lives trying to duck and hide from them. But when you can center yourself and be open to look pain dead in the eye, then you have transcended th elimits of your ego and this humanity. it is then that you enter into the possibilit of becoming a great being."

I equate "becoming a great being" to being able to be Still. At Peace. In Joy. Without Expectation.

XOXO

[Brigitte]

"Let it go" are some powerful words to live by, and the only way to come out sane at the other end. It really isn't so much how much we do as it is how we do what we do. When reaching the end becomes a process rather than a journey, it's time to slow down.