Letting go of the burdens we carry exercise

 

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We can look at how we are robbing ourselves of our creative power and creative ability by the burdens we carry or the burden others have given us to carry. In looking at any burden we carry there is of course the question,“What problem (s) do we face in leaving and letting go of any one of our burdens?” We can playfully arise at the answers in doing a little ritual, ceremony or metatheater.

We can look at our life and identify as many items as we can that we feel are burdens we carry. They can be regrets, obligations, attachments or anything that resembles a burden. For each burden, we write it out on a slip of paper and addition but the name of the burden on a list of burdens. We then tie the slip of paper to a rock of about one or two pounds. We then put the rock with the slip of paper into a backpack. The backpack is symbol of the load we carry. Each burden is represented by a slip of paper tied to a rock in the backpack. We then put the backpack on and start to walk while looking at the list of burdens talking to someone about the burdens, what then means and how we could get ride of them. We walk for several miles carrying this backpack representing the life we chose to live at some level of our being by picking up these burdens. Then at some point, when we get tired enough, we let go of the back pack after making a commitment to change our life and identifying a plan of action as to how to get rid of each burden or to change the burden to lighten it. We cannot drop the backpack until we make the commitment to change and have a plan for each burden.

When the backpack full of burdens is dropped, we probably will feel a loss of balance, uncenteredness, or even stumble without the load. But we will feel a lightness. What we feel physically will also be what we experience within our life as we drop the burden. We will feel a freedom but we will also stumble. We may also find ourselves feeling some anger at some of the people in our life for giving us the burden that they did. We may also feel anger at ourselves for having accepted the burden. However, we do need to take responsibility for our role in accepting the burden they gave us. We did not have to accept it.

We will need to realize that each person only gave us what we, ourselves, asked to get because of how we came to think the world works. In this awareness each person has been our teacher only to show us how we think and what burden we felt we needed to accept. In dropping the burden and see how and why we accepted it, we can realize we need not have accepted any of these burdens if we had been able to see, think and perceive differently. The burdens are only what we believed we needed to carry. We only needs to remember in this realization the process that we each play role for others. We create our experiences by playing these roles for ourselves and others and they in turn, for us and themselves.

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