By: JANA GREENE

We spend so much of our time trying to gain, when we should also deeply consider what is worth letting go of. Each thing you surrender makes more room in your being for love and light.

Maybe now is the time we let go of:

The weight of your own unrealistic expectations.

Okay, I’m really good at this one. Set the bar so high, I can’t even get a leg over, and then be disappointed in myself that I’m not “good enough” when I fall off the bar altogether and land on my face. Taaa-DAAA!

Believing the negative things others say about you.

This is especially hard to let go of, because I have convinced myself over a lifetime of anxiety that “they” must be “right.” But nobody gets to say what’s right about me, but me. Isn’t that liberating? You can completely ignore the BS people spread about you.

Penchant for people pleasing.

If I know you, I want to make you happy, at the expense of my own happiness, if need be. And frankly, that’s whack. I am not Chick-fil-A. It is not always “my pleasure” to put everyone else’s needs before my own.

That shitty little voice in your head is that keeps telling you you’re not enough.

It has played in a loop in my head for neigh on 54 years now. Whatever I can accomplish with my chronic illness each day is my best. Because giving my best is enough, always. It has to be.

Going beyond belief in angry God.

This shift was a game-changer for me. It reframes the entire gospel, and it is a balm to my soul. Not to mention the God of the Old Testament was very little like Jesus. Very little like Love. And my God is quite literally LOVE itself.

Wondering if it’s okay to have doubts.

Yes, it’s okay, of COURSE it’s okay. It’s faith-building, even.

Attempting to fix other people’s problems.

This is a toughie. But I’m learning. I am also learning to say, “what will be, will be,” and actually believe that things will work out just as they should, although I do this in fits and starts.

The soul-sucking monkey on your back. Or monkeys.

Our addictions hijack our focused intention, dull our shine, deplete our energy, and become a barrier to hearing from God within you.

…And the elephant in the living room.

That thing you need to address but keep stepping over, walking around, or ignoring altogether? Ask it’s name. Get to know it. And then politely show it the door.

A “Keeping up with the Joneses” mentality.

The Joneses have their own monkeys and elephants. Stay in your ring; they have their own crazy circus.

The belief that there is a separateness between you and God.

This one is a humdinger and will make all the other items easier to let go of. You are not disconnected to God, and frankly, you can’t do anything to become separate from him.

The belief that you’re all alone and we are separate from each other.

We are all connected. Every single one of us. And connected to our Source, too..

Blessed be, friends. ❤