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Let Go and Trust - Is that IT?
By Kristen N. Fox
“Let Go and Trust” is
something you hear a lot if you hang around reality creators for even
a little while. Sometimes it seems like this is the best answer
to all the questions we think up about how something’s going to manifest
or why something seems to be taking so long to come into form. After
a while it can also seem like the answer we give when we really HAVE no
answer to give.
But I learned that “Let
Go and Trust” is not the ultimate answer, but just one step in the journey.
Usually it’s the best thing to do when we want to release “manual” control
or forceful manipulation of physical reality, which is based in fear,
fear of change. This step is about opening to more than who we thought
we were, opening to an expanded sense of self. When we try to control
something, we are limiting our ‘creating’ to that which we have already
done, we are limiting ourselves to what we already KNOW. And most
of the time, we are afraid that if we release control, things will go
to hell in a handbasket faster than you can say “Let Go and Trust”.
In learning to trust our
own creative, spontaneous energy, we have to learn to NOT KNOW and
to open to the unknown, to what wants to be born, like an artist at an
easel. For instance, if all you know is lack or verbal abuse, then
you’ll need to open yourself to another option, another vibration, in
order to create something different - but accepting the feeling of vulnerability
of NOT KNOWING for a while, without closing down and going back to what’s
familiar, takes a certain amount of strength and determination, and maybe
even, practice. That’s what the whole “Let Go and Trust” thing is
about, and why you hear it so often.
One of the things that
always bothered me about the “Let Go and Trust” idea as THE ULTIMATE ANSWER
was that it seemed to want to completely bypass ME! Was I just an
empty vessel through which “god” was supposed to create? While that’s
definitely one viable way of experiencing physical reality, it didn’t
seem to be the right one for me.. I knew about all of these neat
things I wanted to create and experience! I had IDEAS! And
even though I knew and accepted this about myself, I still found myself
being faced with situation after situation that actually FORCED me to
let go and trust, situations where there was absolutely NOTHING I could
DO to affect an outcome. Situations that had no precedent, and where
I couldn’t fall back to past experience for answers. I started thinking
that perhaps I was wrong about the whole empty vessel thing?
Instead, what I finally
realized is that my resistance to the idea of letting go and trusting
in these cases was me actually trying NOT to give up control! How
clever of me! So, with continuous effort and conscious reminding,
I stopped TRYING all the time, I stopped worrying. I trusted my
impulses when they told me to do something and when they told me to go
watch TV or play games. I trusted my inner guidance when it told
me that there was nothing to be done and when I should take immediate
action. I stopped KNOWING so much about my situations and, for the
first time in a long time, allowed myself to LEARN again. To learn a better,
easier way. And to learn that I didn’t have to give up my visions,
just hold them differently within myself.
And what came of it all?
You can call it “control” if you like, and you can say that I rediscovered
“control” on a new level, from a new part of ME. Perhaps another
way of looking at it is that instead of trying to force my surfboard in
a certain direction, I was learning to let the wave do the work for me.
For I felt the confidence that I had when I really believed I was “in
control” but I no longer felt an almost compulsive need to worry and monitor
every little detail as I did then.
I had been a natural with
this in some areas of my life. For instance, I have always trusted
my ability to create good friends - never worried about it at all, even
when I moved to new places, and they always showed up. What I was
starting to experience was this sense of confidence and ease in the areas
where previously I had known only struggle and lack. Suddenly I
was really FEELING new possibilities and inspirations and trusting THEM
instead of the old, limited beliefs. “Oh, yeah!” I thought, “I remember
this now!”
Truth is, we cycle through
this process with every creation, but without necessarily even noticing
that we are taking a moment to “open to the unknown”. An idea spawns
the channeling of creative energy and the translation of this energy into
physical form. Newness happens. CREATION happens. Otherwise,
we are just letting fear of the unknown close us down to re-cycle old
ideas until they’re threadbare.
The fact that I was aware
that there was something MORE than just letting go and trusting (even
as I felt I had to take the step in itself) was actually the kind of thing
that clued me in to begin with. I had awareness of something beyond
what was just in front of my face, something that was not yet in form.
Should I not have this awareness? Was it just a flight of fancy
that had no relation to what I was “really” in physical reality to do?
Bringing dreams into reality.
That’s what I’m here to experience. In this way, life really is
a work of art. Being aware of what I want to create, for me, is
part of the deal. Not only do I get to trust that vision, that inspiration,
that KNOWING, but I also get to trust the path that unfolds in front of
me as I channel that energy into form. And now it’s actually rather funny
to me that I once EVER thought that “Trust and Let Go” meant I should
let go of my dreams and ideas and just be a permanently blank slate!
[Originally published
in The Edge, April 2000.]
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