This Week’s Quotation:
“Rest in the Lord and find peace…that relaxing into God you may let God uplift you and sustain you, that you may no longer try to uplift and sustain yourself.”
—Uranda
Relaxing Into Ascension
Attunement Teacher and Practitioner
Anyone who has learned to swim knows the strange terror of the first float. Every instinct says: tighten, kick, struggle. Because surely, left to itself, a body sinks. And then something surprising happens. You relax, and the water holds you.
The spiritual life has this same counterintuitive moment.
We are so practiced at sustaining ourselves—propping up energy, managing moods, maintaining the appearance of having it together—that genuine rest can feel like danger.
What if I let go and nothing catches me? That is not a small fear to move through.
It takes genuine courage to open the hand that every instinct is telling you to close.
It runs against the grain of nearly everything human culture teaches about being capable, responsible, and self-sufficient. And yet here is Uranda saying, with great gentleness, that the attempt to uplift and sustain ourselves is what wearies us most.
The uplifting and sustaining is already underway, carried by something that does not tire, does not doubt, and does not need supervision. The task of rest is not to achieve a feeling of relaxation. It is to stop obstructing what is.
Can anyone offer genuine rest to another while braced?
Relaxing into ascension is the work. The willingness to be upheld by Beingness rather than by self is the very quality that makes Attunement possible.
The outpouring of Attunement flows more powerfully through a server who is vertically relaxed than one who is expertly performing. People feel the difference in their bodies.
Let something infinitely more capable take the weight, and the Glory.
The one you most deeply are has been waiting patiently for exactly this invitation.
What Is Attunement?
Attunement is a consciousness practice and an energy medicine practice that leads to personal spiritual regeneration.
What deep relaxation you have invited us into, Oren. As you indicate: The task of rest is not to achieve a feeling of relaxation. It is to stop obstructing what is. The Being that I am and that you are is always in a relaxed state, totally at peace in the envelope of Love. And yes, I have physical and mental work to do, but may I do it with “relaxed intensity.”
Big smile, Oren. The proof of my depth of agreement with you will not come from any verbal reply I can give you …. but rather from the action i took upon reading it. I forwarded it to my wife, my daughter, and my inner SELF. Grand mahalo, Oren. Love, Tom c.