Learning how to Fly

“I cry just a little when I think of letting go” Brenda Russell, 1988 (American Singer/Songwriter)

Let go.

You can do it. It won’t hurt one bit.

Stop thinking and do it.

Easy words.
Letting go is hard.

I recall my experience with letting go. It was during a meditation session. I went in very deep and I felt myself on the edge of an abyss-like dark hole. I did not know if there was a bottom or even if I would be able to climb back out. Sadhguru, the Indian author and yogi, once said that the best hole is one without a bottom but that is easy for him to say when the seeker, like me was unsure, nervous, and fearful.

Well, I did not let go, I carefully backed away from the edge and retreated quietly into myself. Not that day.

As time passed, I continued meditating and sometime after found myself in the very same position, on the edge of the abyss. I was still nervous but less fearful since I had taken the time to grow in my practice. I went from a simple two-minute torture session to a thirty, sometimes forty minutes of beautiful expansive awareness through connecting to my Higher Self. So this time I was ready, I said a prayer, took a deep breath, and let go.

I jumped but I did not fall, I flew.

Let go,
You can do it, it won’t hurt one bit.
Take it from one who flew.