Letting Go

Has your perspective in life, especially concerning one specific situation, ever suddenly changed for the better? Have you ever gone from a total need to control a particular situation to an instantaneous acceptance of the circumstance, whatever the result? It's a bit like waking up. This "new" alertness has actually always been there, yet when we are so into having control over any given situation, we can lose the joy that should be associated with it as well.

For me, this is more than just simply "letting go." Usually, I have to be pretty far down before I can agree to relinquish the wheel. But I'm learning to wake up faster. It often reminds me of watching someone at a circus spinning plates; the music gets faster as the man runs back in forth, trying desperately to keep the plates from falling. You can see the fear on his face. This is similar to how it feels when a good round is starting to go bad; I know because I've been there and it's not fun to feel. It comes from the fear of failure.

The solution lies in this "letting go of the wheel", don't worry so much about the plates. Trust in the power greater than yourself to handle the details and then to go about your round with your original intention; which is too rip the ball around and have a lot of fun doing it no matter what is going to come about. If it goes in the trees, if it kicks into a bunker, so be it. Don't let it steal your joy. The sun is still going to come up the same way no matter what score you post, and how much frustration or joy you get out of your round, won't change the world around you. Accept the bad breaks and allow the good ones to follow, whenever they show up. It's great to awaken out of this "controlling consciousness" and realize you are not really doing all of the driving anyways. You're just there for a wonderful experience if you get out of the way. It's like the man spinning the plates, he looks up and all of his plates are spinning by them selves. So I say, "Wake up!".

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