11: Loosen up your grip
The tighter you hold on, the less control you have.
Why are you holding on so tightly anyway???
Society’s scarcity mindset is compelling us to form attachments that aren’t supportive or serving us, stay in situations and relationships that aren’t for us, and uphold thoughts, ideas, and beliefs that are actually harming us.
In this episode, the shit we need to talk about is:
When we actively keep things in a chokehold that we are desperate not to lose or engage in ideas/beliefs/actions that are not serving us (or are actively harming us, especially in a non-obvious way) all because we’re so used to them and are thus scared to let them go, we are also actively expending bigtime energy that is deeply depleting us on a mental, emotional, and energetic level and stealing our joy and ease.
Constant focus on possessing, grasping, and attaching ourselves in order to achieve status, rightness, enoughness, and love actually takes away our control. It also is actively standing in the way of mindful and sustainable self-care, adding to our stress level and feeling of dis-ease, and deepening our feeling of disconnection.
It is now, when we continue to live in unprecedented and uncertain times, that you must understand what thoughts, words, actions, and beliefs are not serving you in feeling stable or maintaining your sanity.
Look to yoga philosophy’s yama, an ethical practice, of aparigraha, for support in non-possessiveness, non-grasping, and letting go of attachment in order to cultivate the ease, stability, and joy, and abundance you so desperately desire.
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Additional resources from this episode: Michelle Cassandra Johnson: author of Skill in Action, www.skill-in-action.com, instagram: @skillinaction
