I have been told off. Again!

Erm… Yes, I am over-egging it (quite a lot in fact), because the message was loving and gentle. 

It is a message that comes my way from time to time.

Apparently, I don’t heed it or heed it enough, so it pops up again and again.

And the message is

HAVE MORE FUN! Bring MORE fun into your life.
ALLOW yourself to have more FUN! Experience it. Feel it. Enjoy it. Let go. Let rip!

This is not about going overboard, saying, doing and going crazy in the name of fun without any regard for others or the environment, but to stop holding back. To make every moment enjoyable. To decide and set my intention every day to enjoy the moment, no matter what life dishes up at that moment. Simply enjoy it. It makes things so much easier.

As if on cue, my friend Sam shared a recent experience:

After spending a good deal of time doubting and worrying and stressing, today I’ve decided just to enjoy it.  To have fun.  To make it easy.  And since then everything feels sooooooo much better.  The adventure we have today is different to the adventure we’ll have tomorrow. The key is to enjoy them all.

How perfect is that! It is so reassuring and sounds so much wiser and more profound when someone else echoes back your own thinking. Thank you, Sam!

So, more FUN is on the cards. And there was I, thinking I already had lots of fun in my life.

It’s made me realise there are still outcomes I am attached to where things are not happening the way I expect them to and not happening fast enough. I push; I pull; I cajole and nothing happens.

Normally that is my cue to work harder.

Well, it seems that’s not what the Big U has in mind for me.

The Big U wants me to trust, to enjoy, to be appreciative, to let go, follow my bliss, do what feels good, do things for the fun of it, make room and space so IT is free to fulfil my wants, needs and desires in miraculous ways instead of in the ways I demand, prescribe and expect.

Give it up

That’s kinda hard for a recovering control freak like me.

I have ALREADY let go so much! I am always blogging, talking and teaching about being calm and peaceful and making space for miracles in your life…

And now the Big U is saying to me ‘MORE Riana. Make MORE space. Allow MORE. Trust MORE. Have MORE fun. IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE. You don’t have to control it all.’

It suspiciously reminds me of a part in A Course in Miracles that says:

‘A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not it’s own.’

And continues…  ‘They (plans) are the means by which a frightened mind would undertake its own protection, at the cost of truth.’

‘Hmmm…’  is about as productive a comment as I can muster on that.

I shall live in the question and merely be aware of the idea, trusting that all will be revealed in due time when this student is ready to understand the lesson and  ‘get’ it in her bones.

Did you notice there, I CAN trust? I DO trust. Although, perhaps, maybe, not quite one hundred per cent?

Help!

And this FUN thing? I need help. Will you help me, please dear Reader?

I have two requests:

• The first is a question. Does any of the above make any sense to you? Does it resonate with you? Does it ring a vague bell for you? Or is it just me being weird?
• The second is a favour. What do YOU do for fun? I am out of options. I thought I was having fun – apparently more is required. Please let me know your ideas and suggestions of what I can do and what YOU do for fun. I would SO appreciate that. Thank you in advance!

Let me know, ‘Yes, I get it!’ or not, as the case may be. And I do [xxx] and [yyy] for fun. Share as much or as little as you like. What a treasure trove of FUN ideas we’ll generate to help and inspire each other! Tell me here.

The world needs more FUN. Go on, do your bit, rev up your fun-o-meter and add to our collection! Let’s SHARE the fun!

Thank you so much for helping ☺️

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