Release to Receive

​Holding on too long and too hard leaves us weary and unable to open to new experiences. We may hold on to something and carry it for a while, but eventually we might want to release it so that new experiences and new adventures can come to us. This often happens with expectations. When we hold a certain expectation of how things will play out, only to discover we were wrong, we can continue to try to force things to yield to our preconceived idea or we can open to what happened, what is, and look for the positive things that can come from our present situation.