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Just published:  Martha Treat September 2021

Experiencing Is the Freedom

We have all watched others do and say things as we silently think to ourselves—that sure isn’t true for me, or I don’t believe that, or, how stupid etc. etc.

What inspired this Treat is a comment from a friend this week. She confessed her disbelief in my continual refrain over the last 30 years that stuff we never look at, like files, still pulls on our energy.

She and her husband had spent the weekend clearing their home and she went through the things she hadn’t looked at and didn’t believe were pulling on her energy. After it was done, she admitted, first to her husband and then to me, that it was liberating, and she had never held much stalk in what I had been telling her all these years. She has been successfully using the Next Action model daily for years and was grateful for experiencing that the “out of sights” actually do hold our attention and energy.

It is not unlike clients who experience an empty inbox for the first time and are surprised that it is so freeing.

Personally, it took me some time to embrace learning command keys on the computer. I thought it was unnecessary. My friend insisted they were essential. I only understood it once I had surrendered and was physically experiencing the freedom in these short cuts—now I love them.
If we want greater freedom the key is having the experience through looking, touching, moving, and doing.

If you are thinking about something you are not experiencing it. But if you step past the mind or any resistance, and engage yourself by moving, doing, and physically participating you are in the experience and the freedom is present.
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Let your thinking move into experiencing and enjoy the exhilaration.


Martha Invitations

1. A person I know did a class for nine days. The homework was to donate, toss, or delete 27 items a day for nine days. Try it. It’s liberating.

2. The next time you hear yourself saying you don’t feel like it, just start doing it—clean up the kitchen or the top of your desk and notice how the engagement shifts your energy.

3. If there is something you have not looked at in years (files or boxes of stuff) put your eyes on them and clear out the no longer needed.

Martha



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