Most of us know that relaxing and letting go are the key to feeling happier and more present. What is more challenging is knowing how to enter this state at will. As I pondered on the letting go I began to realise how subtle and divine an act it is.
Giving
You cannot make yourself let go
Can’t force into release
There is no effort in the flow
Can’t orchestrate deep peace
There is no action in ‘allow’
However hard you try
There’ll be no sweat upon your brow
Yet with relief you’ll sigh
For yielding is a subtle shift
It starts with saying yes
To all those big old feeling gifts
That show up in the mess
The moment that your soul accepts
what’s vulnerable and tender
Is powerfully effortless
Inhabit your surrender
The Reluctant Poet 