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Grounding Yourself Means Letting Go
It is easier to set goals, create lists and chase your purpose than it is to let life flow. Someone told us a story that happiness is a destination and we need to get there in order to experience a happy life.
But where is there? There is here, now, the present moment reading this. The way to understand the meaning of being happy in the moment is personal. There is no template.
You can learn a lot by spending time in nature or being with animals, for example. Nature and animals live in the now. They cannot exist anywhere else but in the present. They live totally in harmony with universal law. You can’t tell a rose bush or a tree not to grow. It is completely content being and living in its environment and happily adjusts to the weather conditions and seasons to develop.
Take a walk in the woods or a stroll on a beach on a stormy day and feel the connection to nature and its power. People who live in residential developments that have imposed on the natural habitats of the wildlife often play a territorial game with their animal neighbors. The deer that wanders into the garden and starts eating the flowers and vegetables is confused when it is told it is off limits. They build a fence to reinforce the rules to keep the animals out, but they don’t understand. There are no divisions or ownership in nature, everything is fair game and…
