Today’s Guest Blogger, hypnotherapist Ted A. Moreno, writes about reflection and the passage of time . . .
We’re still enjoying 80 degree temps here in Southern California. But it’s obvious that fall has arrived and that summer is on its way south.
Can you feel it? The morning chill, the early darkness, the long shadows of late afternoon. Leaves releasing themselves for the slow descent to the ground.
Autumn has always been my favorite time of year. Something about the shorter days and chillier nights make me pensive, perhaps because I was a winter baby.
For me, this is a time of introspection, of going within. It’s as if the fading fall light casts a different perspective that makes me take a step back to examine my life.
I’m getting more present to the fading away of a younger me. Remembrances of younger days seem to be visiting me lately. Not only the good times but the tough times.
At this stage of the game, they show up now only as fleeting images that seem to have no relevance anymore. They are dead, and increasingly, less useful to me.
Maybe the reason they come is to be released, to say goodbye.
(You may know that the title of today’s post is from the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” You may also know that November 1st is Dia de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead.)
Like the fall and regrowth of the leaves every year, a human life is a cycle of bringing in and letting go, taking in and releasing, expansion and contraction.
Perhaps one of the more powerful things one can do at this time of transition is to see what no longer has life, bless it, and release it on its way.
Whether the dead are memories, beliefs, or ways of being that are no longer vital to who we are today, we can trust that letting them go is part of the very process of life, even if that letting go forces us to feel.
Let the passage of time wash away what needs to be cleansed. Weep if you must for what is dead and passed but let it go, you can’t hold the tide.
Stay awake and present during this time of coming darkness. The light of your awareness can allow you to see what the receding tide of time leaves uncovered: the jewels deep within.
Like the tide, feelings will also come and go. The happiness or sadness you felt back then is gone and dead. Why try to revive it?
What we can do is stand, fully rooted in our awareness and aliveness, and watch as the swirl of time and circumstance and people and feelings flow around us.
Note from Marlene: If you want to work on an aspect of your life that you think hypnotherapy might help . . . writer’s block? can’t sleep? anxiety? fears? . . . Ted A. Moreno is your hypnotherapy-guy-to-go-to. (Whoa. . . Say that three times!). He lives and works in Southern California and does extraordinary hypnotherapy over the phone.
Ted A. Moreno is a hypnotherapist, success performance coach, published author, educator and sought-after speaker who helps his clients become free from fear and anxiety, procrastination and bad habits such as smoking.
He is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified NLP Practitioner, and holds the Master Certification as a Therapeutic Imagery Facilitator. Ted is an Honors Graduate of the Hypnosis Motivation Institute and a recipient of the Director’s Award from HMI, awarded for exceptional professional achievement during clinical residency. Ted’s book, “The Ultimate Guide to Letting Go of Negativity and Fear and Loving Life” is available on Amazon.com.
Originally content from Ted A. Moreno’s October 28, 2014 newsletter.
From Marlene: Writing unites and connects us and that is, indeed, beautiful. When you reach an obstacle or challenge with your writing, see if you can work around it. Write sideways, in the margins. Come at the problem from a new angle. See the stumbling block as an opportunity to explore the problem and create a new solution. How? By doing a freewrite. Write down the first word that pops into your head and then write, for 12-15 minutes. Click here and here for more writing prompts. Just Write!
