January 2.
Day 2:
It’s getting late in the day. I got home not that long ago. I ate dinner and now I’m in my pajamas. I’m tired. But there’s something a tiny bit different today. I’ve set down a stone or two – and I feel lighter. I’m not carrying the weight like I once did. Amazing what one day will do . . .
Sarah Blondin is today’s teacher and she sets our intention for the day: “I will put down what I no longer need to carry.” What she wants us to do is let go of what we don’t need to hang on to, to release the story, the pain, or whatever weighs us down.
She tells the story of a young person who carried a stone thinking it would make them stronger. A wise, older person asked why they thought they had to carry it around and said that everything that we experience has a purpose but if we don’t let go of it, it doesn’t become ‘medicine’. We don’t learn the lesson. So the young person put the stone down and felt their true strength.
This meditation shows us that we are actually stronger when we let go of the weight we unknowingly carry with us. Nature sounds help to soothe us as she guides us through a vision of the stones we pick up and carry, asking us to clench our fists, feeling the tension it causes, then tells us to relax our hands and put the stone down. We don’t need to carry it anymore. By letting it go we discover just how strong we are.
And so I put down a stone today. I let go of something that no longer serves me. As a result, I felt calmer and more ready to handle what came my way. It also prompted me to choose not to pick up another stone that was at my feet. I left it alone and I felt so much stronger knowing that I didn’t have to carry it around.
Did you put down a stone today? How do you feel?
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