{"id":1645,"date":"2022-05-22T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2022-07-02T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:35:19","slug":"test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/test\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing what is."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1645\" class=\"elementor elementor-1645\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-374b6ef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"374b6ef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ec88abb\" data-id=\"ec88abb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5787aa3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5787aa3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.1 - 02-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280386072_2358968640921831_4053784839320752935_n-1400x700.jpg\" class=\"attachment-secondline-themes-blog-post size-secondline-themes-blog-post wp-image-1410\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb5a462 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"eb5a462\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.1 - 02-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Allowing what is.<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8e3b60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8e3b60\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.1 - 02-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>&#8220;Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be&#8221;. Wayne W. Dyer<\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>Probably one of my biggest difficulties, which unfortunately (or fortunately) impacts my life on all levels.<\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>I have such a hard time just accepting what is. To surrender to the present moment, which more often than not, doesn\u2019t look and feel exactly how I would choose for it to look and feel like, instead of trying to constantly control the uncontrollable ! It\u2019s become a sort of reflex with time, with the unpleasant surprises and accumulated moments that have left me believing I would be submerged and overwhelmed by life\u2019s ups and downs, by the waves that I don\u2019t see coming. As soon as a situation knocks up against me, or even just grazes me in a way that leaves me ever so slightly rattled, my first reaction is often one of contraction instead of expansion, of backing off instead of leaning in, of avoidance and running away instead of facing up to whatever is being presented.<\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>I have to work at this every single day, and each time that I curb my first automatic response, each time that I allow myself the freedom to choose differently, to accept whatever is being presented to me in the here and now, (that which already exists anyways whether I like it not), well with each of these times I get a little closer to overturning my instinctive reflex of shunning from life\u2019s calls forward. Every time I make a different choice, I\u2019m ushered into an ample promise of what\u2019s possible, of stretching who I thought I was, of reaching edges of my experience I previously couldn\u2019t have dreamed of being capable of reaching!<\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>Have you ever thought of everything that is completely out of our control ? I have\u2026 a lot ! And surprise, surprise, there\u2019s a whole bunch of stuff you and I have absolutely no control over, most things in fact ! But the lure of control remains so eloquent\u00a0<span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude42\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>The difference today is that I\u2019m no longer willing to trade in my peace of mind for an unquenchable desire, an unattainable goal of bending reality to fit my pretty limited view of what would be my ideal. And deep down, (way way deep sometimes), I am glad it\u2019s not all up to me ! I\u2019m glad to be slowly letting go of my attachment to my version of this story, in exchange for a grander tale, filled with adventure and consciousness-opening revelations, that pull me onto the stage of my life.<\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>Knowing in my heart of hearts that there\u2019s so much love infused in the design of life, that whatever is being presented to me is always being offered with the very best of intentions and that all that is presented is meant for my highest good, surely helps me retrain myself to embrace this shift in perspective quite a bit\u00a0<span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t57\/1\/16\/1f609.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"bi6gxh9e\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\"><i>Wishing you an amazing day !<\/i><\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing what is. &#8220;Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be&#8221;. Wayne W. Dyer&nbsp;Probably one of my biggest difficulties, which unfortunately (or fortunately) impacts my life on all levels.&nbsp;I have such a hard time just accepting what is. To surrender to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surledivan.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}