Riding the Flow

I am grateful for the opportunity for growth........stepping past limitations and being invited deeper into living life fully. Challenges and gifts....giving and receiving --- these are one and the same flow of energy. Can I ride the flow and resist the need to hang on to one or push the other away? The growth is learning to ride and letting go of the resistance and/or the grasping.

I post on Gratitude log.com daily -- what I am grateful for.  This past almost month has been a lovely roller coaster ride.  I am supposed to be looking at how do I know when to act vs. knowing when to surrender.  What are the "criteria" I go by to move me into action and when do I know when to surrender. 

So the instances of being moved to act --- within a week I had to have 3 practice participants for one of the Horse activities in my apprenticeship.  My initial feeling was panic.....that's not enough time....but I sent out invitations and finally had my 3 folks and even a 4th by the deadline.  So I did it.  So what motivated me there.......deadline? It was an outside imposed deadline --- however in my gut, I knew this was the time to be doing this.  And for a while I've been wanting to invite friends....but we had not worked through the "process" of how a session would flow.  These 4 opportunities actually helped to figure that out for the future sessions I schedule.

The surrender piece has actually come with each session.  Surrender my will my need to control the outcome.  Each participant got what they needed according to their feedback, despite my feelings about how I thought each session went.  They enjoyed the experience.  And the horses were such great teachers.  My job was to let what needed to happen, happen....not fix, not advise.  


So do I have a better sense of when I need to act and when I need to surrender????  At this point it all seems to be "hind sight is 20/20".  

But maybe it goes back to my Gratitude statement above......acting and surrendering are one in the same flow of energy.  Do I ride this flow??  ..........stay tuned.