The Art of Letting Go: Embracing Spiritual Flow
How releasing control awakens your most powerful inborn abilities
Control.
We all seek it at some point in our lives.
Complete autonomy. The last laugh. The final say so.
This has its benefits. One must seek self-reliance. To take care of one’s needs. To release being dependent on others for what one can find within himself. Understandable.
However, this leads to a question not often asked yet relevant to how one leads a life: is there such a thing as having too much control over one’s life?
We’ve been taught to believe that control is what can be proven on paper. In black and white. In workplaces, as long as your words can be documented in a paper trail such as an email, you have much more control over the outcome of your situation. A common practice in modern society, this is also known as leverage. Being able to increase your influence over the outcome, just like control.
Society has also been propagandized into the American dream. This sequence of events may have never been laid out to you, yet I’m sure you “somehow” know it.
Go to college
Get a job
Get married
Buy a house
Start a family
Go on a vacation maybe once or twice a year
Grow old and retire
Now things like this exude an air of certainty. As long as you follow these core steps, you will find success. No matter your background. If you can somehow follow these steps, your life will prove itself fruitful to some degree. And it’s true.
Just like directions for your bedframe, new kitchen utensils, or a vacuum, instructions help to minimize or eliminate mistakes and create a smooth process to an expected outcome.
This is control. But…one must then assess control from a different angle. Under whose control are you if you follow instructions? What part of you makes step-by-step processes so appealing? Do they make you feel safe? What is the cost of following instructions?
First, let’s address why instructions are so appealing and why they give us a sense of control over our outcome.
The brain is divided into two hemispheres: the left (masculine) and the right (feminine).
Left Brain:
Linear
Logical
Planning
Sequential (step-by-step)
Factual
Right Brain:
Creative
Artistic
Abstract
Intuitive
Imaginative
Holistic
Emotional
These two hemispheres are in a constant overlap. One does not cut off when another cuts on. However, certain brain capabilities are put in a dormant state if underutilized or ignored.
When you are following instructions, the “all you have to do is” type, you give up your ability to figure things out for yourself. You gain the illusion of control by giving up your control.
Western society is left-brain (masculine) dominant because it has a capitalist flag at its mast. By any means necessary, technological and industrial production must continue and “advance”. This produces a society of workers, non-thinkers, and production-based thinking.
Is it wrong to work? Absolutely not.
Is it wrong to pursue your ideals, whatever they may be? No. We’re all here to be ourselves and contribute based on our natural skills, talents, and abilities.
My question is: what does true control of your life truly feel like?
We must return to the right brain (feminine). This was the mind of the ancients.
When we look at the three main functions - intuition, imagination, and creativity - we must assess what these functions mean to their fullest extent.
intuition (noun)
the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning:
"we shall allow our intuition to guide us"
Your intuition is commonly known as your gut feeling. Very rarely, if any case has ever been reported, will you find someone disagreeing with the statement “Follow your gut.” That means there is something within you that already knows the right way for you. It alerts you when something is wrong. If followed, it always proves itself to be right. It has no basis in logic. It produces some of the most outlandish solutions and yet, it still proves fruitful every time. Interesting.
Then you have your imagination.
imagination (noun)
the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses:
"she'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination"
the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful:
"technology gives workers the chance to use their imagination"
the part of the mind that imagines things:
We often associate our imagination with creating something out of nothing. Seeing that we were more in touch with our imagination as children, it is also often deemed a childlike activity. So much so that it is a common phrase to deem something “a figment of your imagination”. It’s been given such a negative connotation and yet, it’s where ideas are formed. It’s what is being described when someone is “thinking outside the box”. The box is the rigid “reality” we build up for ourselves based on logic, rationale, and “facts” which are just as faulty until new facts come along.
Lastly, we have creativity, often seen as an extension of the imagination.
creativity (noun)
the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work:
"firms are keen to encourage creativity"
Out of darkness into light is the theme, yet again. Creativity is your ability to bring something into existence, making the immaterial material. The unseen seen. Shining light on the dark. What was once unknown made readily available to experience.
These three are the powerhouse functions of the right brain (feminine mind). I repeatedly stress the feminine mind because we have forgotten where we come from.
The feminine mind is where true control is regained, enhanced, and sustained.
True spirituality requires your true submission. We talked about three main functions of the right brain (feminine mind). When you speak about feminine energy, you’re speaking of chaos. Without a negative connotation, chaos yields limitless possibilities. Automatically, this should turn your mind to the idea of limitless power or control.
Well, how do we gain control if we’re giving up control? This leads to the core: What is the true form of control?
Ask yourself: Has bringing an idea to light or into material reality made that idea less real than it was in your mind? Did you feel an emotion less before you told somebody about it or after?
As stated before, your left brain (masculine mind), also known as your conscious mind, is temporal. Bound within this lifetime. Bound in your body. Bound in your ego. Bound in survival. Bound in your awake or alert state.
Your feminine brain is boundless. There are natural abilities that you have had since birth. Through psychic gifts like clairaudience, clairsentience, clairgustance, and clairvoyance, you can gain insight into events and circumstances needing no shred of evidence or proof. Through the strengthening of your imagination, you can energetically influence situations in your life without you being present. Through keeping a dream journal, you can understand the language of your dreams (subconscious mind) and astral travel to places without checking any bags through TSA. By following your intuition, you can find the step-by-step process already within you. Letting your gut, which is never wrong, lead you in the right direction. These sound like limitless and regenerative power sources within your mind. Free of charge.
It is time to become your own way-shower and power-giver. A source where you can plug in for power but also receive power from yourself.
Letting go sounds like death because it is. Change is death and death is change. The only certainty in life.
When you release control, it sounds scary. However, this is what the ancients were well aware of. There’s only so much that you can control. The part of your mind that interacts mostly with this realm is your conscious mind, the left brain. As we all know, everything in this realm is temporary. Subject to an expiration date leading into another form. When you place most of your life’s bets on that which is temporary, you give up your control of your life.
Is it no coincidence that individuals who exceeded limits, broke barriers, and blazed trails for others stopped listening to everybody else?
True control is submitting to the part of you that already knows what you’re capable of, how it needs to get done, and what it will take for you to get there.
There’s a quote the old folk used to say around me growing up and I heard my father pass it to me as well:
“Your gift will make a way for you.”
Answering the initial question: there’s no such thing as too much control over your life, as long as that control stems from your spiritual, feminine mind.