----- This article written by Ka Sundance was also published in the pear magazine August issue 2009 ------



Do you know the feeling, when you wanted something so badly, that you whole world circulated around this desire?
Did you ever loose your keys and looked for them everywhere, and couldn’t find them?  Haven’t we all experienced this?

And then after you searched all possible places several times, but still did not find them, you finally did let go of it. You did forget about your desire completely. And at exactly this point the magic happened.

In a totally unexpected moment, the thing you wanted so much, weather it was your car key, or any other thing: It was just there. Sometimes at a places you could have sworn that you looked before so many times!

But now it was just there!

What is this magic, so many of us have already experienced?

I call it: letting go to receive!
And about this magic that has happened to all of us, I want to write to you today!

When we are to tense concentrating on a wish, on a thing we want and focus all our attention on it, we get stuck. Stuck in a circulating energy, that makes us blind for the solutions, for the thing we want, that is already there, right before our eyes.  We just see a narrow perspective of all that is there, too focused to see the possibilities.

Life and the universe itself is not moving in closed circles, or narrowed in some way. Life is abundance. It is moving and evolving constantly, giving us all we need, and want, when we just are able to see, to receive it. Giving and taking, receiving and letting go again.

Both things belong together. And when you have problems to let go of something, that automatically will make it more difficult for you to receive.
Because you are so concentrated on holding on to things, maintain them, clean them, reorganize and restructure them, that there is just no free space, or no free attention to receive the new things you have ordered, and the universe has already delivered to you.
And the universe is very precise. It never, ever makes a mistake.
To give you a practical example:
Once we lived in a house, and it was like magic. More and more things were finding its way in our cellar, and our free spaces at the roof.
Although we were trying to consciously let go, and organize our belongings, it still felt like we gained more and more stuff, like a magnet.

Then we decided that the point of time had come to do a world travel with our children, which was our dream since we became a family, and even before that.
We took the opportunity and cleared out all our stuff. Most things we gave away as presents to friends and people wanting it, and other stuff was going to the recycling centre.
We tried to give all the things away with loving kindness and thankfulness in our hearts, because it felt better this way.
That was a very intense process, and took a lot of energy; at least as much as getting all the gear together.



Not only physical letting go, organizing and packing all things in a box, driving them to friends, but even more the emotional side of it. Letting go of all the memories and energies that were connected with this specific item.

But maybe you also know the feeling, after you decided and took the action.
You feel good! You feel light! You are free!
New space, free attention and lots of fresh energy!

And this is what it is all about. Let go to receive!
We managed to reduce all our belongings down to 2 small boxes that stayed at our parents places and did a long world travel together with our 2 children at that time with only 1 backpack  and a buggy for Jaro!
We felt so rich!
We were free to go whatever way we wanted, choose the direction we liked most and felt best about.
to go, or to stay, to start in a new life and create and live our dream.



And even this light and almost completely empty, the cleaning process was never stopping. It was, and still is, a constant habit.
We were checking and cleaning our single backpack during our travels all couple of weeks, and found stuff that was not of use anymore.
We just did let go of it.

This brings us to a very special sentences that comes up, when ever we clean up. And that is:
“Oh no, I could keep this. It could be useful at some point of time!”

This sentences is the killer of all the action of letting go!
Yet it can be difficult to overcome. It has to do with trust. Trust in yourself, life, and the universe. Trust in the fact that whenever you need something, it will be brought to you at the exact right point of time. Once we fully understand the deep meaning and existence of this law, we do not need to collect and save all sorts of things anymore.

In our experience it never happened, that we did regret any of our clearings, and cleanings.
Whenever we need anything it is just there. It always is. Always will be.
All is good.

If you want some assistance in your process of letting go, just contact me through on of my websites and I will be pleased to help you.


Ka Sundance from the Rawfoodfamily