Finding Our Inner Faith

When life gets hard our first instinct is to try harder, which makes sense. If we feel like our life is unraveling because we're not doing enough, we think we need to do more. If a relationship isn't working we frantically try to put everything back in place. If circumstances are beyond our control we panic and pray harder that everything will turn out okay. We do all of these things with the best intentions, wanting to do what we can to make things right, however, most of the time this doesn't work because it's coming from a place of fear instead of a place of peace.

When we let fear take over instead of staying in peace we enter into flight or fight mode. This is the primitive part of the brain we use when we're trying to survive and, although it comes in handy when we're in real danger, it's not helpful when we have a problem we need to solve, which takes thinking outside of the box. We will only have access to the problem solving part of our brain (the pre-frontal cortex) when we're calm, cool, and collected.

Even then when life gets turned upside down, sometimes there is nothing we can do about it no matter how hard we try so the answer, instead, is to let go and come back to peace. Martha Beck says, "It's when you surrender to falling apart, and fall forward instead, that love catches you and miracles begin to happen." This feels hard to do. It seems counterintuitive to just let go and almost impossible to feel peaceful about it. However, I've found the moment I give in and realize maybe this is happening for a reason I start to have faith that everything will be okay and.... I begin to feel peace.

The older you get, the more experiences you have and the more experiences you have, the more you learn to find this feeling... the peace within yourself. Sometimes it takes a melt down from all of the trying, but when this happens it's a clue that Instead of looking for outside sources or trying harder, it's time to get still, find the quiet place... the place deep inside that says all is well... and surrender to the falling apart. And this is when the magic begins to happen...

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