Be Like a Tree and Let the Dead Leaves drop.

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”  By Rumi.

 

Rumi asks us to be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. 

 Dead leaves???  Dead leaves meaning, what doesn't have life anymore for us. 

 

 This could be your job, your relationship, or even your house due to age.  Dead leaves could also mean "the past".  We humans can basically "time travel".  We can take our consciousness and re-visit the past.  We can time travel to the future!  But if we look at these closer, we will find out that the past is "no more."  It is dead.  There is no life there.  It happened and we cannot go back and change it.  If we stay in the past in our minds, we may become depressed.  There is no life in the past-dead leaves.

 If we look at the future, it has not happened yet.  We can imagine it.  We can imagine it in a negative way causing ourselves to "worry" and feel anxiety.  Or we can have expectations for the future.  The problem with that is that no one knows what the future holds for each of us.  Our expectations come from our Ego selves.  Expectations cause suffering and pain when our expectations do not come true.

So that leaves the present moment.  While you sit here and read my note, notice how you feel in your body.  Notice what is happening around you.  Now notice how you feel inside of your body.  It is calm compared to the past or the future.  Remaining in the past brings depression, regrets, and hurts, while remaining in the future brings anxiety, fear, and worry.  Sitting here and reading this note, do you feel these emotions I just listed???  No.  You probably feel relaxed and good.

So when Rumi asks us to be like trees and drop our dead leaves, he is asking us to be in the present moment, letting go of things that do not help us, things or people who do not make us happy or make us feel good.  Sometimes letting go may refer to the seriously ill person who keeps holding on to life. Or the relatives who keep holding the seriously ill loved one here instead of giving them permission to let go and go home to God.   Letting go can help us move forward in growth.  Letting go can help us lead a happier life.

By Cynthia Bergsbaken of
Reiki in the Prairie LLC
4-15-2020

Disclaimer by Reiki in the Prairie LLC and Cynthia Bergsbaken copyright 2015

I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor.  These articles I have written, are from reading and experiencing them.  Many of these articles are my own experiences with my own inventions to heal as well.

If you have a medical condition-physically/mentally/emotionally, please see a qualified medical doctor.  Do not substitute my articles for proper medical care.  You are too important to the world.

I have used all procedures I have written about and have found them to be helpful as tools to help myself become a better person.   I am sharing them with you because used as a tool, they are helpful in Shadow working on ourselves.  (Shadow working is healing our inner shadows that are unconscious or subconscious.  Inner shadows are our belief systems, our thoughts, our behaviors, our life experiences.)

I created this blog for my Reiki clients originally.  Combining these tools with Reiki creates a happy, healthy person.  These tools, when used alone are also beneficial!

 

 

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