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Volume I, Issue 2: The Art of Allowing: Sometimes We Miss the Package!

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In this Issue:

1. Welcome!

2. The Art of Allowing: Sometimes We Miss the Package (Featured Article)

3. Announcements/Offers

4. About Lovin’ Life Now Weekly Newsletter

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1) Welcome to this issue of our Lovin’ Life Now! Weekly newsletter.  A special hello to you if you are reading this for the first time. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in it.

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2) The Art of Allowing: Sometimes We Miss the Package (Featured Article)

By Charlene M Brown

I promised you last week that I would write an article on the art of allowing.  And allowing is an art (not a science!) That is so simple to say and fairly simple to write about.  But the big key is to Do!  That’s the part that takes the real work!

If you are open minded enough to “listen”, when you get to the end of this article, I want you to do me a favor and try the game consistently for one week!

Have you ever asked for something, but then didn’t realize when you got it?  And then, didn’t even realize that until much later!?  I have.  More than once, in fact.

Once I was working in a job.  It was something I was naturally good at doing, but in a way that was unfamiliar to me.  We took a break for December/January Holidays (the beauty of many non-profits) and I did a lot of thinking/contemplating/meditating during that time.

What I realized was that this job was exactly what I had asked for in a job: it was challenging, it worked on a skill I already had, but strengthened it; it was flexible enough to work around my school schedule; it worked with people, but not too many people—I wasn’t on the front lines; and it paid me enough to do what I needed to do at that point in my life!

The reason I didn’t recognize it was because it came in a slightly different package than I had imagined in my own thoughts!  This frustrating position was exactly what I asked for!

I realized this somewhere in my holiday contemplation.  But when I got back to work in mid-January, I had a totally different outlook than when I had left in December, and all because of this one realization.

It was all about my own attitude and I was getting back exactly what I was giving out—that is to say that my job was frustrating me because I was already frustrated!

This is where the Art of Allowing comes in:  The Universe (some call it God or Allah or Jehovah, etc, I call this same force the Universe) always gives you what you ask for.  Always.  There is no exception to this rule when you put enough thought into something, you will get it back.

But are you ready for it when it comes1?

Most of us are not!

Have you ever asked for a good wo/man and gotten into a relationship shortly thereafter only to break up later on, but when you look back you realize that that partner was precisely what you asked for, nothing more, nothing less!?  You had gotten what you said you wanted but didn’t know how to handle it when it came!

Unfortunately this is true more often than not!

But You Can Change This!

Another way we sabotage ourselves is by not letting go of past “things” in order to make room for future “things.”  How can you catch something new if your hands are already full?

You can’t.

You Can Change This Too!

Try this simple game: Everyday, say to yourself, “I am open and receptive to receiving _____________.”  Say it several times a day and each time picture yourself actually receiving whatever it is and being happy about it.  Say it out loud several times, whenever you think about it.  Try for at least three times each day.  More is great.

Or this little game: Physically open your arms as wide as they can go as if you were hugging the whole Universe and repeat the above statement (affirmation).  Or you can simply say, “I Am Allowing.”  Again picture yourself getting whatever you say you want and being happy about it.  Really feel that happiness as if you already have whatever it is.  Instead of just saying it, DECLARE it with emphasis: “I AM ALLOWING!

The Universe in all its hugeness, loves symbolic gestures like these.

Sometimes we just have to get out of our own way!  If you ask for something, the Universe hears you and immediately starts bringing that “thing” toward you.  The key is to Allow it into your life when it arrives, but understanding that it may not be the package you thought it would.  Be grateful that it arrived.

The beauty of these little games is that you can have as many “do-overs” as you want.  If you don’t get it right the first time, be more specific the next time (and this phrase to the end of your declaration: “Or Something Greater!”).  Play this game every day for a week and see the wonderful things you can bring into your life if only you allow them to come in.  (Note here, that things don’t always come right away, but when they do arrive, make sure you express your gratitude for them!)

Happy Allowing!

A Big Hug To You!

~Charli B.

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