Daily Question, February 6 How can I lighten my load and lighten my life? 47 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Notify me when someone replies to my comment via e-mail. Kate1 year agoKateThere are so many tasks we put on ourselves that aren’t truly necessary. My house might be a mess and that’s fine. I don’t have to cook a big dinner every night. As long as my basic needs are met and I can focus on connections with those I love, everything else will be okay. 0 Reply k'Care-Reena1 year agok'Care-ReenaTRUST THE EARTH/THE GREATER. From someone who lives with panic & anxiety disorder being one with nature allowed me to face my fears of flying and travel. I have had the blessing of visiting Mexican Pyramids, getting my scuba certification, left my stressful 9 to 5 lifestyle !! I feel so liberate since I have accomplished these challenges as I would faint on NYC trains...crazy right but connecting to nature gave my the confidence and empowerment that Nature is healing. I have been traveling s...TRUST THE EARTH/THE GREATER. From someone who lives with panic & anxiety disorder being one with nature allowed me to face my fears of flying and travel. I have had the blessing of visiting Mexican Pyramids, getting my scuba certification, left my stressful 9 to 5 lifestyle !! I feel so liberate since I have accomplished these challenges as I would faint on NYC trains…crazy right but connecting to nature gave my the confidence and empowerment that Nature is healing. I have been traveling since and am extremely grateful, I never forget Nature; I have to be around it hahaa. Read More0 Reply Kristi1 year agoKristiI can lighten my load by saying ‘no’ and doing mostly what is meaningful to me. I can lighten my life by bing thankful for all of my blessings! 4 Reply Pam1 year agoPamDetoxing from social media more. Doing more of what I do that brings me joy instead 5 Reply Malag1 year agoMalagWhere I am, spring has sprung. I’m having the urge to declutter the physical space. I usually find that results in a lighter step for me. 3 Reply Charles Delcambre1 year agoCharles DelcambreTake a deep breath and step out into the snow. Hear the silence. Feel the solitude. Be present in the moment. 5 Reply sb1 year agosbIn recent years I have had many times when I have needed to lighten my load and my life and always I find just getting outside and into nature is the best healer for me. Feeling the air, feeling my movements, seeing the landscape, the birds, animals, plants, the sea….I feel my load lighten immediately and everything seems lighter, less dark. I found this in my darkest times but it has been a godsend in the current circumstances too. 6 Reply Melissa1 year agoMelissaI can lighten my load by sitting outside and looking at the beautiful sky and breathe three deep breaths and let all the worry go. 5 Reply Lauryn1 year agoLaurynI can lighten my load by learning how to not let old habits and feelings from my past affect me. I can learn to recognize those negative feelings and patterns I learned in childhood and separate myself from them. 7 Reply Ana Maria1 year agoAna MariaThank you for the reminder, I need to work on this every single day. “Learn to recognize those negative feeling”. Powerful words for me right now. I thank you! 2 Reply Don Jones1 year agoDon JonesBy sitting completely still in silence, and quiet my mind. I then listen to my heartbeat. The heart is a miracle of Divine design – so fragile yet at the same time, so strong. It brings gratitude, wonder and awe. 9 Reply GratefulOne1 year agoGratefulOneI thought of this today: We are human beings. Just be 6 Reply Hot Sauce1 year agoHot SauceAs a graduate student, I can start to lighten my load by not being so perfectionistic about getting all the reading done and spending some time with prayer, running, and making an altar. If I don’t get through every word of every chapter, it’s not the end of the world. 7 Reply expati1 year agoexpatiSometimes, when I am walking down the street, I get a weird sensation. I do not feel connected to my body or to myself. Just observing. I think that this is very light. I don’t need to lighten my load–it’s already light. I will lighten my load by letting go of this question. 8 Reply Linda1 year agoLindaHaving recently retired, there are many things I can let go of. High quality professional clothing that others can use. Our second car, eventually. And I am most definitely reading much less online news. All these things lighten my life. 10 Reply Heather1 year agoHeatherI am lightening my load by choosing to refrain. I am a “fixer” by nature. I want to help everyone that I see suffering whether it is asked for or not. By refraining or waiting to be asked, I’m keeping myself from picking up a burden that isn’t mine, but still showing that I care. 7 Reply DeVonna1 year agoDeVonnaI lighten my load by choosing to forgive. I have been hurt in life, we all have. I struggled for many years with the psychological effects of the abuse I experienced growing up. Everything from an unprovoked slap across the face up to times when I feared for my life. One day I read a book called "Seventy Times Seven", by Kristoph Arnold and made the decision to consciously forgive all those who had hurt me. I wrote each one a letter, naming the traumatic event and how I felt about it. I told the...I lighten my load by choosing to forgive. I have been hurt in life, we all have. I struggled for many years with the psychological effects of the abuse I experienced growing up. Everything from an unprovoked slap across the face up to times when I feared for my life. One day I read a book called “Seventy Times Seven”, by Kristoph Arnold and made the decision to consciously forgive all those who had hurt me. I wrote each one a letter, naming the traumatic event and how I felt about it. I told them I choose to forgive them, and thanked them for one pleasing memory I had of each of them. I kept the letters for about a month, re-reading them a couple of times, and then burned them. I felt like I’d reclaimed power over some of my life, it was the beginning of my healing. Read More13 Reply Ed Schulte1 year agoEd SchulteThe subject within the question is "light" but unfortunately most religions and spiritual teaching treat that to mean some improvement in intellectual mind activity ....When the God-man said "I am the light of the world" he meant ALL light inner and outer corporeal and non-corporeal The "how" for myself begins with an exercise to attune the three bodies to the non-corporeal light............and is then repeated three or fore times a day to maintain alinement and attainment. Start: Close ...The subject within the question is “light” but unfortunately most religions and spiritual teaching treat that to mean some improvement in intellectual mind activity ….When the God-man said “I am the light of the world” he meant ALL light inner and outer corporeal and non-corporeal The “how” for myself begins with an exercise to attune the three bodies to the non-corporeal light…………and is then repeated three or fore times a day to maintain alinement and attainment. Start: Close your eyes, breath deeply, relax completely and feel your material body. Feel all the cells and atoms in your material body. Concentrate on your toes and move slowly, slowly, up to your knees. From your knees come up to the Solar Plexus, continue to breathe deeply and concentrate there. Mentally see sky – blue light radiating as Pure energy from your Solar Plexus. While exhaling see you doubts and darkness to go out on your body. The light, the pure energy, etheric vitality, “daily bread”,remains in your body. Now, come up to your chest and see Rosy-white light radiating from the place of your heart. Silence your emotions and your desires and have only love in your heart. Love for yourself, for all the human beings and for the whole of creation. Expand the Rosy- light and cover the whole planet, your temporary home. As a personality you live on this planet but as Spirit – Soul- Self the planet lives in you. Now come slowly up to your head and see a Golden Sun. Free your thoughts, have only creative thoughts in your mind. Mentally see yourself again, see your human form in shining light… See your feet, your hands, your whole body …..radiating white light… Do you believe in miracles? Can you see this miracle? Can you see how beautiful you are? And then there is much more but the above it enough to say what “how” is wrt “light” as I use it. Read More9 Reply Kevin1 year agoKevinEd, thank you for this. It’s marvelous! Just reading it was powerful, even before doing it! 3 Reply Ed Schulte1 year agoEd SchulteYou are welcome Kevin. I am sure your Quaker circles have similar exercise and this can be blended with them because they come from the same source. Have a Safe and warm Sun-day. 3 Reply Kevin1 year agoKevinIndeed they do, Ed! Thanks very much. 2 Reply Ose1 year agoOseThank you dearly for this, dear Ed. Blessings. 3 Reply Ed Schulte1 year agoEd SchulteYour are welcome Ose, and as always…… as the Sufis prefer to say it,… “Thank US! because all we truly have is each other”. And that sentiment is evident within the lingering results of this exercise …the light is Psycho-Noetic therefore it burns off the negative emotional and mind elementals which are counter to the good health of those bodies AND the physical body as well. Be Well Be Present 3 Reply Howie Geib1 year agoHowie GeibI have been jettisoning stuff overboard for a while…I heard something last week that seemed to help: You are not on this planet to be perfect, just to be real. I like the sound of that in the sense that it lets some air out of the perpetual internal critic. Some. I could use more! 11 Reply Linda1 year agoLindaI like this idea to be real, rather than perfect. It does take some of the pressure off. Thank you for sharing it. 4 Reply Pilgrim1 year agoPilgrimI moved to this townhome 8 years ago. I was really sick, working full time, and I was leaving a big family home. By the end, I was just putting things in boxes, not having the time, physical strength or emotional wherewithall to make decisions. The pandemic has given me the time and impetus to go through many of these things and take actions - donate, keep, organize, repeat. I don't know if this has exactly lightened my life, but certainly my load. Until I can get back out into the world, I'm n...I moved to this townhome 8 years ago. I was really sick, working full time, and I was leaving a big family home. By the end, I was just putting things in boxes, not having the time, physical strength or emotional wherewithall to make decisions. The pandemic has given me the time and impetus to go through many of these things and take actions – donate, keep, organize, repeat. I don’t know if this has exactly lightened my life, but certainly my load. Until I can get back out into the world, I’m not sure my life will feel lighter. Read More10 Reply Palm1 year agoPalmDear Pilgrim, thank you for sharing. I am moving and you remind me that I am fortunate to have the time and energy to take those actions. 3 Reply Carla1 year agoCarlaThank you Pilgrim for sharing your current “unboxing” & moving into your space, creating a cozy home. I’ve begun something similar & I do feel lighter. changing my attitude about my house has opened up & expanded new possibilities for living here. 6 Reply Holly in Ohio1 year agoHolly in OhioI will walk this year, eat better, strengthen my muscles, for fitness will lighten my load. I will let go... let go of things that are just things, because "stuff" can be a burden. Every day I try to let go of something I don't need. I will let go of some expectations that the people around me and in my family will make certain choices, and try instead to listen better and get to know who they are, what they struggle with, and how they wish to be. I am "unpacking" my baggage. I'll stop...I will walk this year, eat better, strengthen my muscles, for fitness will lighten my load. I will let go… let go of things that are just things, because “stuff” can be a burden. Every day I try to let go of something I don’t need. I will let go of some expectations that the people around me and in my family will make certain choices, and try instead to listen better and get to know who they are, what they struggle with, and how they wish to be. I am “unpacking” my baggage. I’ll stop being hard on myself. I will still ask myself to keep moving, keep improving, keep working, …I just won’t give myself a hard time if I’m not perfect or meet my own expectations… that part won’t be part of my bag. I think I can also get rid of times I lack confidence… that one is harder to unpack but I’ll try. Fortunately along the journey, I long ago unpacked anger, resentments, and deep sorrows. They were like carrying large rocks. Name it. Say goodbye to it. Set it down. Walk away. Read More8 Reply Ana Maria1 year agoAna MariaI love, love! This. 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