Take a moment to simply focus on your hands and reflect on all they have done today. As you take a breath, clench your fists. As you clench your fists each time you take in a breath, extend your fingers and your palms as you exhale.
Breathing in… PAUSE. Breathing out… PAUSE.
Breathing in… PAUSE. Breathing out… PAUSE.
Now consider your hands and everything they have held onto today. Perhaps it was a gurney, a chart, a chair. Perhaps they turned doorknobs or pushed elevator buttons. Maybe your hands made beds or prepared medications. Consider all the moments of service your hands offered throughout this day. What are the things you held onto today? With your hands… or perhaps, in your heart or in your mind? What are the things you must let go of from today? Let them go now with your hands… with your heart… with your mind.
As you stretch out your fingers and palms and let go the moments of today, I offer you this poem:
LETTING GO TAKES LOVE!
To let go does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
it’s the realization I can’t control another.
To let go is not to enable,
but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means
the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
it’s to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for,
but to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective,
it’s to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future. more
To let go is to fear less and love more
and
To let go is to find peace
May you be open to all that is in store at this moment.