The Art of Allowing
To allow the process of growth, you need to allow that anything is possible, anything can happen. BUT…you don’t know what it will be. There is no way for you to know the next step. If you try to direct it in any way, you’re just going to stop it. You can only be yourself, be what you are now, and allow for the next thing. After all, the core of life is a MYSTERY.
The freest attitude for the process of growth- for personal transformation- is the attitude of complete allowing. Allowing yourself to let what ever is supposed to show up to show up, with no expectations or attachments to outcomes. In this state you are not passive- you are not active. You are allowing. You will see that the process grows, unfolds from one thing to the next. The process emerges if you allow it; give it the space to emerge.
Your most important work is for you to understand the barriers you have against the unfolding. Wherever you are, look at yourself and understand- what are your barriers? What are the things that are stopping you from experiencing fully what is possible? When you do experience fully, you don’t try to hold on to the experience or determine what direction it will take you. You just experience it fully and that’s it! Now your mind is open for anything to happen.
This requires a certain trust in the process, a trust that there is such a thing as transformation, and that it will be a good change. The attitude of trusting without knowing what will happen, of allowing things to just emerge, is needed at all levels and stages of the process of inner development. Any ideas on how things are going to be, will only work as a boundary.
The moment you have an idea about how things should be, you are creating walls, and you are sitting inside them. There is no trust there in yourself, in reality, and there is no trust in the process of transformation and growth. Then there is just restriction, and you’ll suffer and complain as usual. When we allow the natural process of growth to happen, have no set expectations or attachments to outcome, there is expansion, happiness, and joy.
You allow yourself to just be, and change, and grow wherever your being takes you, wherever your being goes. This process has joy and happiness. The moment you try and restrict it in a certain direction, guide it in a certain way, you close yourself off to millions of possibilities. How do you know what is going to happen next? How someone will behave? How do you really know what your life is supposed to be like? You can only trust it will all unfold for your highest good if you simply let go and allow.
-By A.H. Almaas
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
