“I let go & embrace freedom & flow.”
#CLNfreedomeandflow
“Moving away from our experience, moving away from the present moment with all our habits and strategies, always adds up to restlessness, dissatisfaction, unhappiness. The comfort that we associate with concretizing and making things solid is so transitory, so short-lived.
Moving into our experience — whether it’s the opening experience of love and compassion or the closing-down experience of resentment and separation — brings us an enormous sense of freedom: the freedom of nothing solid. Something about “nothing solid” begins to equal freedom. In the meantime, we discover that we would rather feel fully present to our lives than be off trying to make everything solid and secure by engaging our fantasies or our addictive patterns. We realize that connecting with our experience by meeting it feels better than resisting it by moving away. Being on the spot, even if it hurts, is preferable to avoiding. As we practice moving into the present moment this way, we become more familiar with groundlessness, a fresh state of being that is available to us on an ongoing basis. This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky — that’s called liberation.”
~ Pema Chödrön, from “Comfortable with Uncertainty”
This is CLN – “Creatively Leaning Now” into the “unknown, uncharted and shaky” as we stretch our artistry and choreographed humanity…amen
Creative Liberation Now 