Sunday, September 15, 2013

Releasing into Fall



It’s September already and summer has gone….well and truly it feels here in Southwest France, as the weather changed dramatically 10 days ago and the rain set in with temperatures that dropped over 10 degrees. The nights are cold, and the days are noticeably shortening. I feel my body tense and my spirits wane as I awaken to drear and drab days, trying to drag myself up, wondering what happened to the joy, lightness and optimism I felt over the summer…. 

Everything changes…cycles come and go and I must remind myself to trust, accept “what is” and release into what comes. Struggle only fatigues me when there is no changing a natural cycle. With the breath each ‘inhale’ is followed by a release or ‘exhale’, and each contraction of the heart must be followed by the releasing, letting go of blood to the body. 

Despite this knowledge/understanding, I feel asadness and sorrow for what has gone, for the hot, bright, carefree summer days. That is also the way ‘it is’, so feel this I must, while remembering to trust, let go, and surrender to Fall…a time of cooling down, before ‘sleeping’ in the winter… but first, harvest what has been sown/planted. 

What have you planted? What is it time to harvest and enjoy as fruits of your labor, as you relax and release into the quiet time before the next sowing? Both planting and harvesting are parts of the cycle of growth, and as the days shorten we can turn our attention inward to examine what we are harvesting, and what we seek and intend from the bottom of our hearts to create/grow for our next harvest. Now is the time… trust the process, release and enter in faith a new season and another cycle.


Blessings,
Abigail
Abigail DeSoto
Transformational Coach & Psychosynthesis Guide, Teacher/Author
 
author/‘Nom de plume’- Olivia de Gage, L'Amour Déraisonné: Reclaiming Self, Transformational Teachings from Psychosynthesis and A Course in Miracles (2010) Psychosynthesis Press
http://www.amazon.com/LAmour-Deraisonne-Reclaiming-Olivia-DeGage/dp/0961144475



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