The unknown is thrilling, mysterious, scary and exciting. I was always afraid of it, and to be honest I still am..There will always be things that we can’t explain, or don’t know enough about. The unknown to me has taught me alot about surrender, trust and freedom in my life. Life is very science based, and what “can be proven” is the truth kind of mentality. Sometimes we don’t know what we want or how to get it either so when I came face to face with the unknown I got paralized, and my mind automatically thought danger. After a while learning to try new things and actually seeing there was no danger, I started loving it more and more. It gave me a feeling of freedom and I actually felt more relaxed. I think it was my brain adjusting to nature, my body, and my mind. Since then I go with the flow most of the time..:)
“Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back to the world, it’s about stepping away now and then so you can see the world more clearly, and love it more deeply”
Pico Iyer
What he says makes me think of how I feel about the unknown. It’s about going nowhere to see more clearly. About letting go and going into a mystery that may or may not be revealed or resolved.
It’s not always I felt this way..In fact I used to hate it and avoid it like the plague. I tried to control every little detail of my life in such a way that I always knew what came next. I thought routines and predictability was good for me..I realized I did this to feel safe, but it was an illusion of security. In fact I think it is part of us staying healthy not knowing what, when and how everything is going to play out in our lives. Nowadays I try to embrace it and love it instead. It also has to do with trust that something bigger than us knows and always will take care of us. We don’t have to control everything to our liking to live a happy life. This is very hard sometimes to accept and live by, but accepting that things will happen no matter what we think, how we act, or what we say, is sometimes enough to feel a little more comfortable with the unknown. Maybe we can make more conscious decisions to explore new things, and that will lead to more adventures in our lives. I think our bodies crave the unknown so it can move our energies around and wire up new pathways in our brain to act more creatively and positively.
For example when we ask why something doesn’t work out, we most of the time want to control the situation to our liking so we don’t have to feel afraid. So therefore the unknown becomes the enemy. I believe it all comes down to fear and how society always prone us to only trust what can be proven, and to not show fear and trust in something we don’t know. Possibly we also got brought up with parents that didn’t teach or encouraged us to stay in the present, and that the unknown is something that’s exciting. In my home everything was either very structured and controlled, or it was complete chaos and many times me and my sister were left to grow up by ourselves. Sometimes we learn it the hard way, and having faith definitely helps us. I think it’s like opening a present, building anticipation of an expectation that moves you to a part of yourself you don’t know which is exciting!
Today’s Assignment:
When we face the unknown today, let’s try to sit with the feeling and get to know it and learn from it. Don’t get upset, control or try to have someone else fix it. Just look at it and feel it.
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