Pickle Packing

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Welcome back.  Are you ready to start over, to begin again?

I have shown you a secret about life.

Renewal.

Everything must renew again or it becomes stale and old.

Think about that in terms of your aging process.  What would you do – how long would you live if you renewed your body over and over again?

More importantly, how would you feel if you renewed your mind and beliefs over and over again? 

Is it harder and more difficult for you to let go or start over again?

Decide for yourself which holds the better energy for you and use that to stimulate your own renewal process.  A fresh start has no ties, no history, no baggage.

That is such a wonderful analogy you have created for yourselves – stuffing all your undesirables into a bag, a container so you can carry them with you – like pickles in a jar.  Easily contained and transported from place to place.

You laugh – but carrying around your baggage is about as silly as carrying around a jar of pickles with you all the time.

And what do you do on vacation – you take baggage with you there.

You use your vacation as a renewal and fresh start of sorts.  Why not pack all your good memories to carry all the time then.

Or do not carry them at all.

The load becomes heavy either way.

You will not forget what is important to you – you do not have to carry them around to haul out and remind yourself.

What you carry and hold onto is a burden – just like your luggage stuffed to the gills with everything you might possibly need.

Trust yourself and lighten the load.  Keep only what you truly need and trust you will acquire whatever you don’t have in the moment – or you will deal with the situation when it arrives.

You cannot be prepared for everything.  You cannot have everything on hand for there is always something new you did not and could not anticipate.

But what you can take with you is the confidence and trust in yourself that you will handle and be capable of everything that comes your way.

So take a moment and take a good look at yourself in this moment of renewal (and by the way we will go through this renewal again – several more times).

What time has come for you to let go of – to toss out with your baggage?  What do you no longer need to carry around?

What has put the bag in baggage for you and the lug in luggage?

We are here with a fresh start, an open space, a clear adventurous path ahead.  Free yourself now to enjoy the ride.

No need to look back – we’re moving forward.