Don't Close!

 The essence of yoga is: Don't close!

Michael A. Singer

I am realizing that I do not need to change the people who seem to be on the other side of some proverbial line drawn in the sand. It is not their responsibility that I feel the way I do: stressed, angry, hateful, resentful, resistant...closed. It is mine. It is therefore my responsibility if I am closed.

I look out at the circumstances that seem to be pounding down on "me" and I am realizing that they are not responsible for what I am experiencing inside. I am. I feel all this becasue I closed and 

...Closing sucks!

Michael A. Singer

I am closed because I decided that what they and life are doing is bad, wrong,shouldn't be.  

I am closed because I decided how Life should be for "me" and "my" comfort.

 I don't have to change Life...I have to change "me" (or better still...get the discriminating "me" out of the way).

I don't have to change and control Life so I feel good inside.  I have to change my  personal grandiose delusion  that I can and should control it. 

Others will do what they are doing.  It doesn't have to close me. 

I am not willing to give up that Shakti flow, the Love inside this human I call me, because of what someone else or Life is doing. 

There is nothing higher coming from outside that is more powerful than what is coming from inside. 

I can continue to work my way from these lower level feelings back to love by taking ownership of my internal experience. I can continue with my desire to create and inspire in anyway I can.  It is afterall not "my" love, or "my"creativity, or "my" inspiration. It is all simply coming through me...As long as I stay open, It can flow. 

Love loves to express itself; creativity loves to create; and Inspiration loves to inspire.

Michael A. Singer

All is well.