To Self-Help Or Not To Self-Help?

I just got a stack of self-help books today. I review for my spiritual gardening site, Blessed Gardens. They’re sitting right there on my table. And there, I presume, they will stay for a while.

 

I’m just not in the mood.

 

Don’t get me wrong. I love self-help books. I’m in the business of self-help. But sometimes, when I’m feeling under the weather, such books make me feel worse….like I should be scrambling to fix my life rather than sit and feel my feelings.

 

My Creative Director, Kristen, and I were talking about it yesterday. Sometimes the best course of action is dive into great fiction or see a movie and simply let go.

 

Yes, this is coming from a person who touts intention and focus and enlightenment. 

 

But have you ever noticed that the moment you let go, the moment you throw up your hands, that’s when the answer appears?

 

It’s much the same with manifesting. The real key to manifesting is in the intensity prior to letting go. It’s the time when the trapeze artist has let go of the handle bar, swings in mid-air, and in the most magnificent show of faith, spins in the hands of partner with perfect timing.

 

Can you imagine being caught? That is the magic of intention…the power to trust Spirit.  And the only way to achieve it is to let go and completely trust that everything you have done to this point has prepared you to make your best performance.

 

And this is when you are completely breathtaking to behold. It is in the moments of vulnerability that we give others that chance to share who we are with them.

 

It is in that delicious mid-air spin with Spirit that we can connect.

 

Consider the flip side. You let go and fall to the net below. You bounce a few times and climb back up to reposition yourself. 

 

Fear or faith?  The first choice brings you back to faith’s door, the other to Spirit. 

 

I’m in mid-spin today. When I catch Spirit, I’ll swing with it and land on the other side with a thirst for knowledge. Then, with greater faith, I’ll reach for one of my amazing new self-help books.